Reach out and touch someone, indeed!

In <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59462,00.html">this article on Wired News</a>, they're working on a technology that would allow people to feel things via the Internet. They list all kinds of good, sound scientific reasons why this would be a useful technology, like sports training and medical training. I, of course, can see other applictions for it that are less purient. Teledildonics takes on a whole new dimension! I shudder to think how this will be perverted.