You got to know your chicken, and you can do it through the web

The Poultry Internet project takes what is surely a familiar concept to purveyors of teledildonics and brings it to the next logical level: fondling your chicken over the net. Members of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore are clearly troubled by the separation of human and poultry brought on by fast-paced modern life, and offer a very, um, interesting solution to this pressing problem by combining wireless, haptics, cybernetics, and augmented reality. Now when your chicken is home alone, you can reach out to him (literally) by petting a highly amusing chicken doll whose sensors transmit touch data to an electronic jacket worn by the chicken. Better yet, you can don 3D goggles and get a real-time view of your pet, and even put on electric sensor footwear that allow you to walk a mile in your chicken's shoes. We're just wondering which company will snap this up to tap into the ever-burgeoning market of harried pet chicken owners who crave the ability to give their KFC a little TLC.

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[Via Near Near Future]