The “SOS - Stress outsourced” project taps into the idea of combining crowd sourcing concepts and social networking with physical stimulation. In this case, a jacket equipped with a set of actuators emits massage strokes, when people send a signal via some social network. Buttons that allow to call for a massage or send a stroke to others are also embedded into the jacket. What charmed me most about this project is that it claims to be built on the old Korean saying of “ten spoons of rice make a meal”. So ten (otherwise really useless) “pokes” in Facebook can make a nice massage!
http://project-sos.mit.edu/index.htmlfrom http://www.susannahertrich.com/notes/
