Lee’s Journal

The Hug Shirt is designed to make you feel loved even when your loved ones are miles away from you.

Bluetooth-enabled pads of some sort are embedded in the fabric of the shirt, and can receive signals from your mobile phone.

One person wearing a Hug Shirt gives themselves a hug, which is picked up by their mobile phone and transmitted to their friend. The friend, also wearing a Hug Shirt, then feels the squeeze, with the same pressure applied.

The designers promise that the Hug Shirt can be washed, and are soft and comfortable to wear. You can move the pads from Hug Shirt to Hug Shirt, so that you can wear different colours and styles.

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There has been some pretty interesting lamp designs in the past that require some sort of user interaction to activate, such as snapping your fingers, clapping your hands, or even blowing at it. And now, here’s the Pupa Lamp from Progetto25zero1 (Milan-based design studio) that requires loving caress to turn it on!

The Pupa Lamp is custom made from fibreglass, a couple of 15-watt fluoroscent bulb and no regular on/off switch but a fur switch instead.

via Ubergizmo - Pupa Lamp requires stroke to turn it on

Here’s a project by Alex Habegger, Ramun Liesch, Peter Ulrich and Nicholas Buchi - an Interactive Pillow. The pillow will turn on the lights inside when it senses low-light situations. It also reacts to sound, pressure and touch!

Watch the video after this jump.
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As promised, T-Mobile is going to release the limited editions of Sidekick 3. Last time, they released the limited editions of Sidekick II, Juicy Couture and Mister Cartoon, and this time, the Sidekick 3 will get the Lifted Research Group (LRG) and Diane von Furstenberg designs.

The LRG’s design is the green motif while Diane, who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) in June 2005, comes with black and red theme with a few shiny pink on buttons.

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Motorola is going to release the Motorola RAZR with Tatoos, after came out with several different colors and fashionable Gold and Silver RAZR V3i teamed up with Dolce and Gabanna. The laser-etched RAZR handset comes with variety of tattoo designs by Ami James of Miami Ink fame, but Motorola has only shown off a design, as shown on the right, the traditional dragon design.

When launching the RIZR last month, Motorola showed off a few tattoo designs of its own etched behind the slide of that model, including a repeating pattern based on a Japanese crest as well as a traditional floral designs. But no word if the RIZR and KRZR handsets will also get tattooed.

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