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Your Facebook Likes Conveyed As Simulated Hugs
mikejuk writes "Next time you're dreaming up ways to make the users of your apps feel loved and wanted, think a little more wildly. How about giving them an actual hug? That's what MIT researchers Melissa Chow and her colleagues Andy Payne and Phil Seaton at MIT have come up with — a jacket that hugs the wearer when one of their friends 'likes' one of their posts on Facebook. The Like-A-Hug vest is described as receiving a signal when a Facebook friend 'likes' a post, then fills with air to give the wearer the sensation of being hugged."
Can we have an equivalent jacket for Troll mods on /.?
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They (you know who) are subtly diluting the meaning of an "actual hug"! But for what end?
Who would want such a vest? It just wouldn't feel the same. Human contact is great but it feels different depending on which human you are contacting. A vest isn't human at all, so it will feel like accidentally touching a stranger or something like that. It won't produce a nice warm and fuzzy feeling. I think these people at MIT need to get out more. They work like crazy over there.
When do we get a version that puts someone in discomfort at the level of getting your blood pressure level checked whenever they post something awful?
Looks like a hugbox to me!
Can this double as a life jacket? If so, you could actually save some African orphans with your likes. At least the ones thrown overboard from pirate ships.
Still waiting for Dope Slap Over IP...
They should add bare wires inside the jacket so that dislikes are conveyed as a very mild electric shock.
How about a dildo instead? Then you can feel the love every time you log into Facebook.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Interesting invention, but I'm wondering if it's possible to miniatrize the technology into something other than a vest. It should look like sock, just much smaller...
What a shitty idea.
I expect better coming out of MIT. But I guess even MIT has their idiots, failures, and general bottom-of-the-barrel types.
I hope someone realizes how stupid this is and kicks them out for sullying the University's name.
If you mass-hug someone, he/she will be crushed to death.
That is so much BS, 3/4 of the status updates on Facebook aren't even things you would hug about in real life. The like button just tells the poster that you saw it and agreed,. thats it!
Apparently being at a big name research institute means you get positive publicity for the most trivial, silly research. Am I missing something?
If you use facebook then you are a cunt. Don't be a cunt.
alone...
A hugging jacket for Facebook likes? Get a fucking life! How many simultaneous hugs does it take to strangle someone?
So... what are "pokes" conveyed as? I think the vest for that may be a bit more... intrusive?
Wireless remote control vibrating panties exist.
Because we need more "if you're old enough to remember this" memes.
This just cries for this Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip.
So the corresponding Facebook-aware product would be a "Fleshlike"?
Considering many people's obsession with Facebook, an electronic device used for masturbation that was somehow connected to Facebook activity seems like a potential "killer app". I see millions in sales! And think of the advertising tie-ins...
But, I think this device would probably take the form of some sort of anal probe.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
as simulated sexual intercourse?
Then you have a hit on your hands.
1) Go to airport
2) Security notice electronic hardware within vest
3) Friend has great timing on like
4) Get hugged by dozen of security guards
5) ???
6) Profit!