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Teledildonics, here we come!

No doubt. Also, no pun intended I'm sure. ;)

This will finally make Second Life interesting!

Of course, I'm sure we'll quickly end up in a situation where many of the video feeds coming in with the "touches" will be fake, even the "finishing touches," or just actors on webcams, and the real person "pushing your buttons" will be an utterly bored wage slave in a cubicle who's probably tending the buttons of several clients at once. I guess the quality of the experience would depend on the quality of the acting, just like in real relationships.

And when the thing inevitably breaks, calling tech support will be interesting. "This call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance..."

Seriously, though, this has been a long time coming (ok, semi-seriously). And, it might even find uses outside of the insanely lucrative obvious one, like hacking into a paranoid guy's computer and tapping him on the shoulder for instance, or allowing the music industry to slap a downloader across the face while they're downloading.

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