A New Robotic Hand That Can "Feel" 112
Dyne09 writes "The BBC is running a video report about a group of Swiss and Italian scientists who have created the 'Smart Hand,' a robotic hand with forty sensors that 'connect directly to the brain.' Though fuzzy on the details, the report says the hand provides sensor feedback to a willing test subject, a 22-year-old man who lost his hand to cancer three years ago. How long until we have access to Star Wars-esque robotic limbs?"
One word (Score:5, Funny)
Telepresenceporn
It's only a matter of time... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:One word (Score:5, Funny)
And you thought buffer overflows were scary before...
Can you feel me now? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's left for the movies? (Score:3, Funny)
What, you expected him to read the summary too?
Interesting .. but.... (Score:4, Funny)
Ummm.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:One word (Score:5, Funny)
You do realize that the vast majority of young impressionable girls you would be meeting on the Internet to have telepresenceporn sessions with, would in fact be, older perverted men.
It's going to be dudes manipulating your junk. DUDES. Even if you go for the paid-for telepresenceporn of supposedly higher quality you will most likely still get dudes manipulating your junk. They will be outsourced foreign dudes touching your junk.
One word - Dudes.
Re:One word (Score:2, Funny)
It's all fine and dandy until one of the hydraulic lines breaks and someone needs a new set of genitals.
Yeah, but your new genitals will have telepresence too.
Re:One word (Score:3, Funny)
I always thought this scenario was what really inspired "The Turing Test".
Italians give an hand, when you are in need... (Score:1, Funny)
you see, Italians are always there to give an hand, when you are in need...
then they looks strangely at you and say:
"ya know, electronic hands broke sometime... you should pay for some protection"
(guys, I am making jokes ok? (I am myself Italian!))
Ciao
ALEX
Re:One word (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, Italian scientists helped design this. You can be sure it's grope ready.
Re:One word (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, Turing would not have objected to "DUDES."