Phone know kiss?

Have you ever wanted to make your phone ' more intimate' ? Fabian Hemmert, a design researcher, majoring in art at the University of Berlin, Germany, can bring it.

"The use of conventional cell phones gives us very little real sense," he said. "They are great for exchanging information - text, video, and conversation - but they can not bring feelings or closeness." That's why Hemmert has developed a series of first-of-its-kind handsets that can convey the feeling, breath, and even kiss - that's what he presented last week at the Mobile HCI conference in Stockholm. , Switzerland.

The prototype consists of sensors at the edge of the phone and a strap placed on the user's hand, so when a person grabs their phone, it sends a signal to a device in the electrical Other phones have the ability to pull the strap closer. The breath transmitters are designed to be similar to the transmission of air flow, with a pressure sensor on one side and a jet on the other.

The best-known example is the kissing phone , which consists of a moisture sensor on the phone of the sender and a moist mechanical sponge that can be pushed back to a semi-permeable membrane. recipient's phone. The extent to which the sponge moves depends on the wetness of the kiss from the sender, allowing you to distinguish between a gentle kiss on the cheek and a passionate kiss.

Can we see the combined samples put into use in the coming time? Probably not, because according to Hemmert's colleagues, they estimate that these products are likely to deliver "candy," "bizarre", "annoying" and even "disgusting" when he asked them to test the phone. But it seems Hemmert is not embarrassed about it, he thinks this is not a bad result. "It raises a discussion about how we can really communicate in the future."