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Hug Over a Distance: An Intimate Interface for Remote Couples

05.29.2005 · Posted by Roberto C. Madruga

You are separated from your partner due to a work assignment in a city far away from home, and you miss her. You miss giving her a hug and holding hands. Therefore, you pick up your mobile phone to call her, but hesitate, because she is at work and a call might disturb her. Besides, you do not really have anything important to say and decide therefore not to call.

Instead, you decide to send her a Hug Over a Distance. You take the koala and rub its belly, which in turn sends out a hug signal, visualized by a little animation (the koala is currently a placeholder for a corresponding vest). Your partner is wearing a stylish vest, which nobody around her can identify as a piece of wearable computing. However, the vest contains a wireless receiver, which receives the hug signal. Inside the vest are small air compartments which inflate quickly all around her body torso, giving a sensation similar to a real hug. The hug is discretely received, because others cannot “see” the hug. She knows that you are thinking about her because she received a tactile emotional message from you, meaning “I am thinking about you.” You both feel closer although you are still apart.

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Revolutionary Self-Theory

05.28.2005 · Posted by Roberto C. Madruga

“This booklet is for people who are dissatisfied with their lives. If you are happy with your present existence, we have no argument with you. However, if you are tired of waiting for your life to change…

Tired of waiting for authentic community, love and adventure…
Tired of waiting for the end of money and forced work…
Tired of looking for new pastimes to pass the time…
Tired of waiting for a lush, rich existence… Tired of waiting for a situation in which you can realise all your desires…
Tired of waiting for the end of all authorities, alienations, ideologies and moralities…

…then we think you’ll find what follows to be quite handy.”

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Cosmic "Magnifying Glass" Reveals Distant Planet

05.25.2005 · Posted by Roberto C. Madruga

“Scientists have discovered an extrasolar planet using a technique known as gravitational microlensing. This is the second such planet found using the method, which measures a planet’s effect on light from a distant star. The new planet weighs about three times as much as Jupiter and orbits a star similar to our sun. “This discovery is the tip of the iceberg for microlensing searches,” says team member Scott Gaudi of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “With improving technologies and techniques, the first Earth-sized planet may be found by microlensing.”

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