Whether you’re a romantic away from your loved one for a semester overseas, or a grandparent with the little ones on an opposite coast, long-distance relationships just got easier. Brothers and former Google employees Petter and Kaspar Prinz noticed that the most written “word” via text and chat in 2014 was not a word, but the emoji of a heart.
HUG turns that emoji into a more tangible experience with the help of your phone. By placing your phone next to you, the phone’s proximity sensor picks up the length of the ‘hug’ and sends it a recipient’s phone as a vibration of equal length.
The longer you leave the phone next to your heart, the longer the vibrating ‘hug’ lasts. It doesn’t make your phone sprout arms to wrap around your friend or loved one, but it’s a long-distance connection beyond words on a screen.
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