Touching Tomorrow: High Tech Sensory Toy Heralds a New Era for Synthetic Companions
TruTru might be just what we want—and desire
TruTru, a gelatinous-like, tactile-responsive companion toy, can do everything from growing warmer or cooler, changing color and, according to the project site, “simulate fleeting and shifting sensations, like the ripple of water, the patter of rain, the swish of wind, the flutter of butterfly wings, or the gentle rhythm of shifting pulses.”
As envisioned by JUE Design and Research studio, in conjunction with the Intelligent Human-Machine Mechanical Interface Lag at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, TruTru is “a loveable friend that offers not just haptic sensations, but emotional companionship in users’ everyday life.”
Alas, it isn’t cleare how TruTru is supposed to accomplish this, plus serving as a mindfulness and meditation guide, as well as a sleep aid.
If TruTru actually functions as promised, imagine with me how the artificial companion industry could adapt its technology to achieve mind-glowing—and erotically exciting—fascinating new options.
And I’m feeling good
TruTru will supposedly have optional, straplike arms, allowing it “to be worn, clipped, or carried in various ways, adapting fluidly to everyday movement.”
However, touch—or rather its haptic capacity to replicate not only the aforementioned fluttering butterfly wings but “natural materials like stone, wood, sand, feather, shell, etc., as well as familiar man-made surfaces such as fabric, rubber, ceramic, etc.” is how TruTru might evolve from a pleasant novelty to a potential sextech marvel.
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The project’s site is scant on the technological details. Hypothesizing, it might rely on a kind of electrostimulation to physiologically mimic sensations, like how a low voltage charge applied across a patch of skin can sometimes seem slippery.
Sound is another possibility. For instance employing subsonic, on one end of the scale, hypersonic vibrations to generate similarly realistic tactile impressions.
Touch me, touch me, touch me
No matter TruTru’s final design, its technology is likely to end up, legally or otherwise, paperclipped by the sextech and artificial companion industries.
Imagine state-of-the-art pleasurable playthings capable of near-instantaneously growing hotter or colder, rougher or slicker, more or less electrically stimulating, capable of emulating fur, stone, metal, flesh, or a hundreds other substances.
Even if TruTru’s sensation mimicry is never fully realized, merely having temperature or color changing sextoys or artificial companions offers all sorts of wildly erotic possibilities.
Just as today’s best flat screens—produced by South Korea’s LG Display Co., as reported by The Korea Economic Daily—can be twisted, stretched, and folded, consider how a TruTru-like toy might be covered in a likewise twistable, stretchable, and foldable outer skin.
Want to change your artificial companion’s face, skin tone, or have it seductively flow from one color to the next? How about having your futuristic sextoy’s surface double as a high resolution screen for watching whatever turns you on? Or why not add in some super fast networking so your smart companion or toy would resemble your partner—regardless of how thousands of miles may separate you.
Hold onto your dreams
TruTru may never be anything but an implausible, high-tech fantasy—though if rapid, frequently unpredictable technological charge is anything to go by—it, or any product with colorful, haptic, temperature changing capabilities—could still reshape pleasure technologies like nothing before or since.
In fact, the idea of a cute little spontaneously metamorphic, mindfulness, meditation, sleep, and/or friendly buddy may be what jump-starts that reshaping.
After all, just a few paragraphs back we offered some interesting possibilities, with plenty of others should we—or you or all of us—put our minds to it.
So rather than scoffing at imaginative concepts like TruTru, instead look at them as creative jumping off points towards other, perhaps more realistic, breakthroughs to come.
For as everyone knows, dreams—erotic or otherwise—can be fun on their own but also may be just what we need to make the real world a better, happier, and more fulfilling place.
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