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If you can’t be with all your loved ones this holiday season, you soon may be able to send them a hug or a hearty handshake over the Internet. …
The technology requires using battery powered pillows and it will be owned by Microsoft. Redmond was just awarded a patent on something called “Force-feedback within telepresence,” reports Geekwire.
This would let people use connected devices that simulate all kinds of human interactions such as “hugs, hand-shakes, grabbing documents, writing on a whiteboard,” the patent says.
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whew….finally something the porn industry can’t take advantage of.
renalin on December 25, 2012 at 6:02 PM
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BigGator5 on December 25, 2012 at 6:12 PM
Heh.
petefrt on December 25, 2012 at 6:16 PM
I suppose it’s just a matter of time before Virtual Reality Sex, as depicted in the movie Minority Report, becomes technologically available (or at least patented).
Assuming it is initially or eventually becomes generally affordable, could that be a potential death-knell for the porn industry — or rather the mere subsuming and virtually (pun intended) unlimited escalation of it?
/Oh, nevermind … who am I kidding? By that time, all business will likely be owned by some tyrannical force at either the national or global level, be it a simple authoritarian or otherwise fascistic/communistic statist government — and all interactions strictly prescribed and controlled for the good of the collective.
ShainS on December 25, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Well, it’s a short step from a handshake to a hand … oh, nevermind.
platypus on December 25, 2012 at 7:32 PM