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# Let your Facebook friends hug you through Likes
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/let-your-facebook-friends-hug-you-through-likes/
- Published: 2012-10-09T20:30:16.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:51:58.000Z
- Description: MIT scientists found a way to get in physical touch with your Facebook friends: a vest that inflates whens someone likes something you posted on Facebook. Eric Abent at Slash Gear reports: The idea of this vest – which has been dubbed Like-A-Hug – is to simulate the feeling of receiving a hug from y
- Author: Rachel Helps
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](http://cdn.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/likeahug.jpg)

MIT scientists found a way to get in physical touch with your Facebook friends: a vest that inflates whens someone likes something you posted on Facebook. Eric Abent at [Slash Gear](http://www.slashgear.com/new-vest-inflates-when-you-receive-likes-on-facebook-05250809/?ref=killscreen.com) reports:

> The idea of this vest – which has been dubbed Like-A-Hug – is to simulate the feeling of receiving a hug from your friends. “The vest inflates when friends ‘Like’ a photo, video, or status update on the wearer’s wall, thereby allowing us to feel the warmth, encouragement, support, or love that we feel when we receive hugs,” designer Melissa Chow writes on [her website](http://www.melissakitchow.com/Like-A-Hug?ref=killscreen.com). Chow developed the vest with Andy Payne and Phil Seaton at the MIT Media Lab.  
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> But wait, because it gets even better – by squeezing and deflating your vest, you can make the vest of the person who Liked your post inflate, essentially giving them a hug back.