Jul 07 2007
Send Your Hugs across the Continents: Wear a Hug Shirt
Have you ever thought of your very old grandma who happens to live in the other coast of the continent? Don’t you sometime get nostalgic about the good old childhood days, when your vacations were never complete without the pampering of the old lady? Don’t you sometimes feel the irresistible urge of rushing right into her loving embrace like your childhood days? But the distance—it won’t allow you to fulfill your wishes so easily!
Or can you remember the face of your mother who bid you good bye on the day you started your solitary journey in quest for a larger world?
I can still remember my days in the university hostel, where despite the company of a gang of friends I used to miserably miss my mom! I used to hanker for her warm touches at the nights of distresses and used to imagine myself in her assuring embrace!
There are thousands of young girls and guys who yearn for the touches of their loved ones in their special moments of joy and sorrow. Why only the young? Human beings—cutting across the barrier of age, sex or society—-try to find solace or strive to share their joy in the embrace of their loved ones.
Probably the same feelings crossed the minds of the scientists in the CuteCircuit—-a wearable technology company—who imported the most innovative concept in the world of wearable technology. This unique innovation of CuteCircuit goes by the name of “hug shirt”.
So what the hype is all about “hug shirt”?
In a nutshell, the hug shirt will enable you to hug your loved ones even if they are thousands of miles away from you.
Have doubts? Well, you are not alone in this world of Doubting Thomases—few were convinced of the efficacy of this wonderful gadget before it won the Innovation of the year Award in 2006.
But it is pretty simple actually—it is at the core a bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. You have to actually hug yourself after wearing the hug shirt—sensors in the shirt process the data and send them to the receiver’s shirt.
What types of data are sent? Data include the hugger’s blood pressure, skin temperature, heart rate, length of hug and a few more. The recipient’s shirt receives these data and the recipient gets to feel the same sensation that his loved one might have felt at the time of sending her hug from miles away! The entire system works through a mobile phone network and the data are recreated with the help of actuators embedded in the shirt.
If you are a student spending a campus life miles away from your family or a business busy body who has to stay cut off from family for months even years or just like others around you separated from the aging parents for some reason or the others—- your sleepless nights in separation from your near and dear ones have come to an end—technology has made it possible that you can feel the heartbeat of your near and dear ones under your own blood stream, even if geography doesn’t allow to meet them in person.
However for those who love the details, here are a couple of information about a hug shirt.
- Made of lycra and cotton, hug shirt is soft and washable.
- They are specially designed for both men and women and they can be put on by children and old alike.
No help for those who can not hold their patience for grabbing one of the specimens of this wonder-shirt! You have to wait till this years end. The market in the year end will be flooded with hug shirts in different colors and styles.
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