HUG ME ?????

PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE WITH MY TROUSERS

CuteCircuit, an "interaction design" company, offers T-shirts that can massage you by telephone, and a skirt that knows when you're excited. A report from Evgeny Morozov at the MobileCamp technology conference in London ...

Now for CuteCircuit’s product of the moment: the "Hug Shirt", which transmits and receives hugs. When you give your Hug Shirt a hug, sensors embedded in the cloth measure the strength of your touch, your skin temperature, your heartbeat rate and the duration of the squeeze. They send this data to your phone via Bluetooth; your phone sends this data to your friend’s mobile phone; it travels via Bluetooth to his or her shirt, and your friend feels a hug based on your “inputs”. You can even send a hug if your friend has a Hug Shirt but you don’t, using “Hug-me” software.
The shirt is washable and rechargeable. If somebody sends you a hug when you aren't wearing it. you get a message: “You’ve got one hug waiting. do you want to feel it?”
Francesca talks about some interesting uses for Hug Shirt: during rock concerts, or for kids to cheat in class by using a special “hug language”. Plus, the feeling you get after being “hugged” is so relaxing as to feel almost like a massage.