Wine related articles
Now, wine glasses that shorten long distance love!
Washington: Here's good news for people who are in a
long distance relationship and are dying to
share a drink with each other, as glowing, Wi-Fi
wine glasses let people in long-distance
love birds feel more in touch with their
other half.
When you and your partner both raise the
high-tech glasses they will glow warmly, no
matter how far apart you are. The idea is to give the feeling of a
shared drinking experience.
Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung, experts in human-computer interaction, say
that communal drinking is an important
social interaction that helps bind friendships and
relationships, but this is of course denied to people separated
by geography.
To give such lovebirds a chance to recreate some of the
intimacy of sharing a drink, Lee and Chung
have incorporated a variety of coloured LEDs, liquid sensors and
wireless (GPRS or Wi-Fi) links into a pair of glass tumblers.
When either person picks up a glass, red LEDs on their partner's glass
glow gently. And when either puts the glass to their lips, sensors make
white LEDs on the rim of the other glass glow brightly, so you can tell
when your other half takes a sip. Following tests in separate labs, Lee
says the wireless glasses really do “help people feel as if they are
sharing a drinking experience together”.
The technology could also be used to check that hospital patients or
elderly people are drinking enough water, Lee says. The glasses, dubbed
lover's cups, will be unveiled at the CHI 2006 conference on
computer-human interaction in Montreal in April.
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