Virtual Hugs
By Emily Conrad 
posted Feb 26th 2005 10:06AM
posted Feb 26th 2005 10:06AM
Though it may look like it gives more than, uh, just hugs, Mark Argo's Hugms lets you give someone a friendly squeeze through your cellphone. Sent as a text message, the longer you squeeze the more of a 'hhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuggggggg' the other person gets. A short, hard squeeze gets a 'hhHHUUUUUUugg". If both people have them, the Hugms will glow a warm color when squeezed. And then of course there's the group hug, letting you get all emo with all your friends at once.
What has this artificial world come to?
This gets a nice big WTF? from me.
Why not make one that fits over the wang...everytime yer gf is away she can send you the same miserable HJ that she would give you in person...
looks kinda like a penis.
Dont kid yourself. This is a prelude to them tapping into synapses to induce on-demand euphoria.
Seems a ways off, true. An icky-looking misshapen condom indeed. I dont believe 'getting out more' for these people would solve anything however. We'd just bump into them on the street, pretty sure that's not a good thing.
That is just about the dumbest thing I've ever seen.