Hug me, if you can

Two sweaters forcing people to hug

Light sensor

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Coaches & collaborators

institute

Design Academy Eindhoven

My synthesiser is made out of to sweaters, made to react to each other. They have complementary colors. One is in cold colors, and emits a cold sound, which can only be stopped when the warm-colored sweaters comes to hug it. The sound is then indicating the quality of the hug. Is it just nice, or is it a true, real, relief hug?

process & design

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the tech

How does it work?

The cold knitted sweater is the one baring all technology: the knits let some volume ad little holes on the front, and the sides and the back are alternating a very dense wool and cotton knit with very fine linen lines. This allows a certain amount of light to go through. When the light is going through, the alarm plays. When the warm sweater is hugging, it is blocking the light., and generating drum sounds. When the pulse sensor detects a faster heartbeat, a relief sound begins.

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Light sensor

A light sensor detects light in its proximity