Smart Shirts lets you exchange hugs using mobile phones

A UK manufacturer of smart clothes called CuteCircuit  has designed a top that can hug the wearer, or stimulate other areas, via a mobile phone. The top has patches of smart fabric which can
expand and contract and are controlled by Bluetooth commands.

CuteCircuit has also developed the Kinetic dress, which changes its colour and pattern at
the user's command, and the Mystique dress, which can alter its length.

Intelligent fabrics are already in use across a range of areas. Sports shirts and bras
have sensors built in to monitor respiration and heartbeat.

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