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The Hug Shirt: Remote touch has arrived 19 Oct 2007

A woman wearing a shirt with multiple kidney-shaped patches on it.

The Hug Shirt brings us a step closer to telepresence:

"The Hug Shirt is a shirt that makes people send hugs over distance! Embedded in the shirt there are sensors that feel the strength of the touch, the skin warmth and the heartbeat rate of the sender and actuators that recreate the sensation of touch, warmth and emotion of the hug to the shirt of the distant loved one."

[via CrunchGear]

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