Your Facebook Likes Conveyed As Simulated Hugs

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 6, 2012 @03:40AM from the deep-pressure dept.

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."

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Re:It this a conspiracy? by Samantha+Wright · 2012-10-06 04:07 · Score: 4, Interesting

Commoditization of all human affection! The incurably Single intend to devalue all of the In A Relationships and It's Complicateds!

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Re:MIT has sunk to a new low. by PJ6 · 2012-10-06 04:22 · Score: 3, Interesting

That would be the surest way to kill creativity and enforce a timid mediocrity.

Coming from MIT myself, troll, I can say that they would kick you out for your attitude.