When the patient undergoing brain surgery is in Omaha and the neurosurgeon performing it is in Bejing (`telesurgery' is only one example of an art/science that is being moved right along by this sort of research), that strapped-up roo will be remembered fondly.
Of course this sort of system could be used to operantly condition a whole flock of roos simultaneously in an extremely efficient manner (1,000 roos in vests being `trained' by one person at a computer) to, let's say, attack on command! Just a gentle pat on the `back', eh? Yasss, that would keep Tipi Hedron in her phone booth - and the command could be given from any laptop fitted out with the latest USB `haptic `happening' device picked up on sale from Staples... Yikes! The distance between the imagined and the realized sure is getting shorter. Too bad Alfred Hitchcock is gone