Don’t mess with Benedict XVI – guy is all up on this internet business like ain’t never been seen. Dude has his own YouTube channel. Heavy. But the internet is serious business, and Benedict wants us to remember as such, issuing a warning to web-goers the world over last week. His Popage cautioned internet users that the web has “numbed” young people, creating an “educational emergency – a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence.” According to AFP, the Pope claims a large number of young people “establish forms of communication that to do not increase humaneness but…

So, okay. It’s possible that feeling up a virtual hottie is not quite what the designers of this incredible haptic interface had in mind. But c’mon: this is the internet! Dirty thoughts come first; practical thoughts come later. Still, now that we’ve gotten that out the way, as the above video shows, this complex combination of robotic levers and sensors was created to allow its user to ‘feel’ what it’s like to hold a virtual object, conveying dimension and even weight. So you could see where my mind went with this. Ahem. But the actual uses for a system like this include conveying skilled techniques…