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Via: Mobile Feelings
The Mobile Feelings project, by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau, studies how to communicate via virtual touch over mobile phone networks and explores the ambivalence of revealing personal information to anonymous listeners.
The egg-shaped devices (picture) integrate pulse sensor, scent/heat sensor (similar to those used to detect bad breath) and micro-ventilators to transmit data over Bluetooth technology to capture the users’s heartbeat, blood volume pressure and pulse, skin connectivity. The testers reported sensations of intimacy, bodily connection nearly embarrassing when they had to share the experience with total strangers.
What is amusing is that they first decided to insert the technology into real pumpkins for an exhibition.After the show, the decomposing vegetables were substituted by less unconventional materials.
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Posted: 2005-01-13 16:15
