I know what you're thinking. You can do everything on the internet: speak to friends on the other side of the world; work; bank; vote; shop; find out how to arrange a funeral for your pet terrapin. But if the oh-so-great internet's as fantastically useful as it's made out to be, then why oh why can't you arm-wrestle?
At last, your prayers are answered: thanks to the hitherto mysterious (to me) science of telehaptics, the New York Hall of Science has teamed up with several other museums to create the internet arm wrestling challenge.
According to PC Magazine (and I'm in no position to question this): "Haptics is the science of touch, and telehaptics combines virtual touch technology with networking to allow people to feel things locally that could be happening miles away."
Before you start limbering up, however, as you'll see from these pictures, you need more than a freshly-greased keyboard and mouse set-up to take part in this test of strength. It's not virtual - you need a robotic arm. Still, Christmas is coming …
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