Touch Your loved Ones No Matter Where They Are With Tactilu !

Over the past decade, the world we live in has changed significantly with respect not only to the technology available but also the way we work. We are trapped in a busy world where we have no choice but rely on communication technology to keep in touch with our loved ones. Even dating has gone virtual. In other words most lovers don’t have time to spend in a real world so they exchange emails and SMS.

In the past the only way for lovers to interact was to meet in the real world. Then cell phones came to invade our and lives lovers were quick to jump on it to express their feelings. Distant relationships do lack something though. That is the sense of touch. Friends can hear each other through phone or even see each other via the net but they can’t touch each other.

Now we are entering the era of wearable technology and with that, new types of products are coming into the market. It should now be much easier to express love using the sense of touch. A new idea was born straight from a Poland design studio, Pangenerator. It is a wearable wrist that has been named Tactilu. The first wrist that allow 2 people wearing it to communicate with each other at a distance using the sense of touch.

This technology relies on the Arduino Pro mini microcontroller, a bluetooth module and a custom pcb that sends signals based on a haptic feedback. There are 2 possible ways to pair electronic bracelets. Either the users will pair their device directly via bluetooth or in a case of longer distance they can pair through the net. This is quite extreme when it comes to innovation and people are yet to get used to the concept of distant touch.

The final design of this device is still been reviewed. For now it looks more like a slightly bulky bracelet but the designers did mention that the final product will be much slimmer and comfortable.

Also, another improvement that needs to be made is a situation where the touch can be sent both ways on the same bracelet. For now there is one bracelet for sending the touch and another separate one for receiving the touch. So basically people who want to play with this toy will have to wear 2 bracelets, the emitter and the receiver.

Hopefully the product that is going to be released in the market will have both the touch and feel function and it will be much more appealing to the eye. For the meantime lovers will have to use their phones and the messenger softwares to keep in touch.