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20071022 Monday October 22, 2007

Send a Java ME technology-enabled hug

Here's possibly the strangest use of Java ME that I have seen so far. Using Java ME technology and Bluetooth, you can encode a physical hug and then send it long distance to someone you know (with an actuator-enabled "hug shirt") to receive the same hug decoded by Java ME.

See:

Send a hug with Java ME

Here's a quote: 

 The shirt is equipped with 
 “hugging actuators” at each 
 of these areas that supposedly 
 duplicate things like the 
 warmth, pressure, duration, 
 and even the heartbeat of the 
 hugger. Here’s where it gets a 
 bit creepy, though teen girls 
 are sure to love this: If you 
 have two Hug Shirts and a Java 
 and Bluetooth enabled cell 
 phone, you can hug yourself 
 and your exact hug will be 
 measured and sent by SMS to the 
 second Hug Shirt, creating… You 
 guessed it. A long distance hug.
What's next? Hug Pants? ;-)

[Java ME and J2ME] ( October 22, 2007 11:00 AM ) Permalink

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