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A Vest to Hug You
Roland Piquepaille writes "In "New vest offers wearer a portable hug," the Boston Globe reports that engineers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have designed a vest to help people suffering from autism or high anxiety. This inflatable vest has pockets that hold air bladders and is powered by 10 AA batteries. When you push a button, the vest squeezes — or hugs — you. Now the engineers also want to know if their vest is effective — apparently a premiere. So they're testing it with both students and psychatric patients. So far, it's just a prototype, but read more for additional details and a picture of this hugging vest."
Surely, this gadget will provide a ray of hope for cold, unfeeling, wireframe mothers everywhere.
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Sometimes you gotta take the love you can get I guess.
So you're saying they need to add heating elements to their vest? One moment while I fill out a patent....
Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration, which is why engineers sometimes smell really bad.
This is a great invention for pirates!
Not only does it hug you to sleep on those long pacific ocean crossings, but it'll also serve as a life vest should the unthinkable happen and your land-lubber-hearties force you to walk the plank!
Roger the cabin boy must be so relieved by this idea...
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But it will be a top seller among the ravers
If they are going to design biomechanical clothing, they might as well design a pair of shorts to massage your lower torso. They would be very popular with slashdotters who still live with their parents:
Bobby: Calls through closed bathroom door "I need to get another pair of massage shorts this pair is almost worn out."
Mother: "Why Bobby, that's your third pair of massage shorts this month you've worn out."
Son: *silence*
Mother: "Bobby, what are you doing in there." knocks on door "Open this door this instance."
Bobby: "Go away. I'm brushing my teeth. Yeah, that's it, brushing my teeth."
"You'll get nothing, and you'll like it!"
Dr. Evil: Well, don't look at me like I'm friggin' Frankenstein! Come here and give your father a hug.
Scott Evil: Get away from me, you lazy-eyed psycho!
Of course, it would have to be an EVIL hugging vest. Now where are the (oblig) sharks with frickin' lasers.
So when do they invent the geek hug underwear?
i doubt that will make anyone feel better
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but it will feel so good when they stop
Sometimes you gotta take the love you can get I guess.
And if you can't be with the vest you love, honey, love the vest you're with...
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