Send your hugs via text message

CuteCircuit was founded in 2004. It is a fashionable technology company with an excellence of design beauty of wearable technology and of interactive design. They are continuously creating "smart" clothing that'll be used as a fashionable, athletic, and communicational usability. With that in mind, CuteCircuit had created a proto-type shirt that allows the owners of cellphone (or more like towards frequent text-messengers) to send out hugs along with text message, videos, and images. The shirt itself communicates with the cellphone via bluetooth in order to transmit the hugs.

"The Hug Shirt™ is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug Shirt™s don’t have any assigned phone number, all the data goes from the sensors Bluetooth to your mobile phone and your mobile phone delivers the hug data to your friend’s phone and it is seamlessly transmitted Bluetooth to his or her shirt"

There are senors and actuators that help create the experience of an actual hug. It then re-creates the distinctive cuddling, the sense of his/her warmth, pressure, duration and even heartbeat!

There aren't out on the market yet but the CuteCircuit company are coming out with another new interactive fashion collection this year.


Image from Time - Loreffrey for Time

For more info on the shirt visit their site here