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More Touch Tech for Long-Distance Lovers: Hugging Shirts, Coming Soon?

By Baxstar J. Ferguson
May 8, 2012
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It was called “Best Invention of 2006” – so where is it?

A special project of Cute Circuit – “future fashion now” – the hug shirt is not actually available now and there is still no word about when it will be available.

The idea behind the hug shirt, conceived by company co-founders Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, is that it has built in sensors and actuators which receive and transmit via Bluetooth data about temperature, texture, touch and emotion to another user, whether through another hug shirt, or a “virtual hug” on a cell phone or other mobile device.

Image Source: Flickr @hahatango

Of course, wearable tech isn’t just in the haute couture conceptual art communities. Art students and activists around the world are rebuilding their tech in open source environments, “hacking” popular culture and traditional clothing items for an advanced technological future, whatever that might look like.

Even big name Sony has attached their name to Hiromi Kiriki’s Nextep concept design for their wearable watch phone, which they put a date on of 2020.

Do you really think it will take that long for wearable tech to be available to the masses?

 

Baxstar

Baxstar J. Ferguson is a serial storyteller. Their work, across mediums, is to tell a vivid, meaningful story that comes from the heart and connects authentically and powerfully with the right audience. Baxstar’s work holds so much versatility from journalistic articles and op-eds to creative nonfiction. They also do translation, photography, and illustration.

For a decade now, they’ve worked with Lonely Planet, Esquire, Yahoo! Canada, ravishly, Thrillist, Playboy.com, sharecare, care/of, Avocados from Mexico, Marriott, Scotiabank, and Hearstmade.

Baxstar graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2004 with a degree in Social Development Studies and from Athabasca University in 2014 with a degree in Women’s and Gender Studies.
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