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by KirinDave 3189 days ago
Ideally clothing can use your back and stomach as a haptic surface. This offers directional feedback and more channels (an upper and lower feedback band, minimally). It also offers more natural touch surfaces.

Indie folks have been doing this for years, and it's getting quite small. Interested parties are both homebrew hackers and folks working at improving the lives of sensory impairment.

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Talk about visceral inputs. What about connected small clothes? When that person who swiped you on tinder will give you a nice little buzz in the right place.