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Flame 5 Bluetooth Enabled Jacket

While I am still spending too much time finishing off a research report from years ago, something which feels more like a book than report, it does lead me in the direction of some not so recent but cool research efforts. The Flame 5 is a Bluetooth enabled jacket which communicates via heat. Judging from the weather reports stating that we are to expect some cold temperatures this weekend (8˚C) I wouldn't mind having a someone send me a sms to make me warm.

Flame 5 (F5) is a jacket that connects to your personal mobile via Bluetooth and enables communication via heat. If a person sends an SMS (TEXT) to a remote person wearing Flame 5, the clothing heats up depending on the personal message. Flame 5 works with standard Bluetooth mobile phones.

Different levels of heat depending on the message or the 'hotness' of the person calling? Groan. This work was developed at the Ambiente Group, Fraunhofer IPSI and naturally the concept has been widely reported all over the web.

More here

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Apparel » Wearables

CuteCircuit's Hug Shirt

Written about in numerous webblogs and nominated by Time as one of the Best Inventions of 2006, CuteCircuit's Hug Shirt is embedded with sensors and electronics that allow you to feel a sense of touch, skin warmth and heart rate of the sender - a simulation of physical closeness - bringing the sensation of a hug from a distant loved one.

The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned phone number, all the data goes from the sensors Bluetooth to your mobile phone and your mobile phone delivers the hug data to your friend’s phone and it is seamlessly transmitted Bluetooth to his or her shirt!

Sending hugs is as easy as sending an SMS and you will be able to send hugs while you are on the move, in the same way and to the same places you are able to make phone calls (Rome to Tokyo, New York to Paris).

Send a sms get a hug. Could get expensive!

More on their site. Via Craftzine.

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