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Vibrating Chicken Jacket

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have created a wireless-enabled vibrating jacket for chickens. Citing Singapore newspaper The Straits Times as its source, the Reuters story reporting this breakthrough doesn't adequately explain the purpose of the poultry jacket except to suggest that the technology may be used in children's pajamas to deliver simulated hugs over the Internet. As far as chickens are concerned, what's missing is the addition of a thermal component. That at least would allow for an obvious marketing angle, albeit one that would require permission to use the Shake & Bake trademark. Selling such a device to parents might prove more of a challenge. Anyone in the market for a means to hug a child while away on a business trip will find that techno-jammies don't erase neglect. Moreover, given the dismal state of online security, there's also the prospect of remote molestation at the hands of some hacker. But at least chickens will feel the love before becoming McNuggets.

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Nancy Reyes said:

Don't know about Singapore, but here in the rural Philippines, "pet chickens" are actually the fighting cocks that nearly everyone keeps in their front yard...
So they don't end up as McNuggets. They end up in the betting ring.

May 21, 2006 9:39 PM
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