MIT’s Relational Pillow is touch sensing for loved tweets

Had enough of those kiddy pillow fights, it’s time to embrace an interactive pillow concept from MIT’s Ambient Media. A novel stride up in cozy interaction, the Relational Pillow senses touch instruction and acts as a personal communication aid between people. Group members Sajid Sadi and Pattie Maes in collaboration with Amir Mikhak, have designed the Relational Pillow, which uses a Wi-Fi network to allow the sense of touch to be transferred over distances to other Pillows, thus keeping the departed souls interconnected. The interactive pillow, which is only in a prototype stage yet, without hindering any peculiar features of the felling of holding a pillow, makes it a communication device to be used in all comforts.

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Via: Ambient Media