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Considering that most parents nowadays are shuttling back and forth between various workplaces, it’s really difficult for them to spare time to accompany their kids, not to say giving them a warm hug each night. But luckily, the distance between kids and parents may be effectively shortened, since the Mixed Reality Lab has come up with the Huggy Pajama, a device that enables the parents and children to embrace each other remotely.

The Huggy Pajama system includes a mobile doll that comes with an embedded pressure sensing circuit to sense varying range of human force produced by real touch, as well as a wearable pajama that simulates the hug to the wearer. So when connected to the Internet, the doll will feel and deliver the hug produced by the mom to the pajama, which would then ‘hug’ the kids wearing it. Featuring embedded air pockets and heating elements, the pajama also makes the wearers feel warm and comfortable, as if the parents are rightly here with them.