“Hug me now, you’ve got my number”
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Imagine this a second: Your “tribe” is made of people who live around the world. At thousands hours of flight from you. You call them often, that’s fantastic because now, you can do it when you as long as you want. You can share music and see their face. Great… But something is still missing in this kind of relationship. You’re in the mood of hugging. You want to touch real bodies and not just imagine them near you…
And now, there’s this incredible new clothe expected to hit consumer market quite soon. It was designed as a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phone, and gives the ability to send SMS to “hug” people.
If the couple of people have the hug shirt, they won’t have to send any SMS, shirt sensors will share informations like hug pressure, skin temperature or heartbeat rate.
The hugging system, embedded in the shirt, warms body zones indicated in the SMS or by the other shirt. If you wonder which zone of your hot body could receive a hug, look at the picture, there are all buried under the red circles ― yes, there are not symmetrically distributed, and no, dirty readers, red circles don’t under the belt.
CuteCircuit, the pan-European start-up responsible for this wearable warmable washable cellphone accessory, is nothing but very serious about its creation. They expected to release the shirt, but hasn’t unveiled any date. Maybe they’re waiting to have a whole line of intelligent clothes. So we suggest the WiFi shakable glove, the Smell-my-socket SMS socks, the WiFi lovers’ cups, but oh wait, this one already exists.
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Apr 13, 2006 | By Nuno
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I think families, that are split apart due to military deployments, would like this, especially when special occasions–birthdays, anniversaries, etc, are being missed. Are there differnt patterns?
But not during military operations :) …
the thought of the MILITARY being a primary market for HUG technology gets me giggling.
i can just see it now, the top brass all gathering around for a demonstration of “Project Touchy Feely”.