Next up: Remote cockfighting!

April 6, 2005 2:25 PM

Poultry Internet!? YES! Though poultry have been known to have high levels of cognition and feeling many of us with busy lifestyles have a hard time fulfilling their needs. And some poor souls can't even be near poultry as a result of allergies. What to do? Why not a cybernetics system allowing for network-enabled remote haptic stimulation and feedback of poultry? Confused? Well, there's "The Office System where user fondles with the doll." and then that hooks up to "The pet (rooster) with pet dress." hopefully recapturing "our sense of togetherness with our animal friends, just like times gone by on the prairie, village, or jungle.". A bit of oddity brought to you by the Singapore Mixed-Reality Lab, who actually do a lot of cool stuff like AR human pacman; and they've got the videos to prove it.
posted by nTeleKy (5 comments total)

A magnificent dada-esque post. And I love the tags.
posted by LarryC at 2:40 PM on April 6, 2005

On preview: that's cool item, no offense taken, as I was about to say...
Actually, I was looking for the SMRL link (which I got from stumbleupon, IIRC) for this entry, was browsing the site and came across it. I've never seen hack-a-day, but thanks for mentioning it; looks really cool.
posted by nTeleKy at 2:53 PM on April 6, 2005

I was confused, but more about the wording of the post. I'm used to the living animals being referred to as "chickens" with "poultry" referring to the meat of the dead animals. But upon checking with the dictionary, it seems that it can be used this way. You learn something every day.
posted by agregoli at 3:07 PM on April 6, 2005

poultry have been known to have high levels of cognition

Yes, yes they have.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:55 PM on April 6, 2005

yay, big-up to singapore! *beams patriotically*
posted by wessatong at 7:39 PM on April 6, 2005