Best Bluetooth device of 2006

Now that the 2006 is coming to an end there is the usual rush to award prices for the best (insert category here) award of the year. Bluetooth devices do not elude this kind of things and one of the products that we hear more often than not is the Hug Shirt.

It is a shirt that takes care of the most important things that physically cannot be carried over a cell phone: feelings. Certainly you can try to communicate them with your words, a great message or picture but nothing is better than a warm hug. You will not be there to give the hug but the shirt will take care of it for you.

The Hug Shirt is in fact a Bluetooth accessory that transmits from a distance several human characteristics associated with hugs. In particular it registers and communicates the heartbeat rate, the skin warmth and the strength of touch of the sender. These values are registered using sensor embedded in the shirt of the sender.

Then the values are sent by the mobile phone (like a normal text message) to your friend’s or lover’s phone. There they are interpreted and, via Bluetooth, send to the Hug Shirt that simulates the hug by applying the \"values\" of the sender.

This great invention, produced by CuteCircuit, on paper may seem a bit to wear but the manufacturer paid particular attention to the wearability. The Hug Shirt is in fact realized using textiles, cotton and micro-fiber to make it as comfortable as possible. Lastly for those worried about how to wash the shirt there is no need to worry since it’s fully washable.