Like-A-Hug
October 6, 2012
MIT Media Lab – Tangible Media Group – Hiroshi Ishii
Like-A-Hug is a wearable social media vest that allows for hugs to be given via Facebook, bringing us closer despite physical distance. The vest inflates when friends ‘Like’ a photo, video, or status update on the wearer’s wall, thereby allowing us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs. Hugs can also be sent back to the original sender by squeezing the vest and deflating it.
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Comments (8)
by Dan
Virtual foreplay… you know whats next
by Bri
It was a great idea, until the first one went defective, and squeezed someone to death like a boa constrictor.
by Ralph Dratman
Small vocabulary
by GatorALLin
…so if you don’t send a hug back is that the same as a dislike?
…in FL these hug jackets look too hot to wear…
… I already confuse a stomach growl with a cell phone vibrate… what will the hug jacket lead to (goose bumps up the back of your neck?).
…I guess any good or bad signal could be sent between people… dogs wear collars to keep you within the fence or get a jolt… girlfriend gets upset because your out at the bar with friends…. Zap….or that “wink” you used to send by email only could be the next hug jacket…only slightly different… (hey that was your imagination, not mine….wink).
…maybe those 300 fake friends you have on facebook will pay off this year on your birthday with the new hug jacket… (pop!)
…when you pop your hug jacket, does that = true love?
by Editor
Prediction: GOMJ (“GET OFF ME, JERK!”) most commonly texted
by Vin
Interesting. I wonder if some popular people will become ‘hug-o-holics’ and suffer massive withdrawal symptoms when they go out of vogue with their typically capricious fans, ending up with psychological breakdowns that lead to pathological rampages (even possibly involving said fans as victims). Or maybe I watch too much ‘criminal minds’ (wink).
by Gabriel
*shrug, if you have to be addicted to something, there are worse things then Hugs :)
by Vin
Yes, currently true, but I notice when supernormal stimuli becomes this immediately and conveniently accessible, it usually spells trouble for humans and the reward mechanisms of their brains.