{"id":17580,"date":"2012-05-25T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=6782"},"modified":"2012-05-25T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T15:08:28","slug":"touching-sort-of-across-time-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/touching-sort-of-across-time-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching\u2014sort of\u2014across time &amp; space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In high school I had my first long-distance girlfriend. My dad would roll his eyes at our pre-Net attempts to connect. &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re probably eating a cheese sandwich as 6pm, because Jeanne said <em>she&#8217;d<\/em>\u00a0eat a cheese sandwich at 6pm\u2026&#8221; \u00a0He was kidding (and wrong), but there&#8217;s much to be said for synchronicity across space.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Marco Triverio&#8217;s\u00a0concept &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.uic.edu\/~mtriveri\/Marco_Triverio\/Feel_me_app.html\">Feel Me<\/a>.&#8221; As Fast Company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1669859\/weird-but-genius-feel-me-app-turns-texting-into-touching\">puts it<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When a friend is typing, you can see where they\u2019re touching on your own screen. And when your fingers match up, from halfway across the world, haptic feedback can allow you to serendipitously touch. In a text-me-later culture, Feel Me enables communication that\u2019s transient and visceral.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33500689?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s rather brilliant. And as for Jeanne, sometimes I now see her across space, hobnobbing with Mitt Romney. Funny old world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In high school I had my first long-distance girlfriend. My dad would roll his eyes at our pre-Net attempts to connect. &#8220;Oh, you&#8217;re probably eating a cheese sandwich as 6pm, because Jeanne said she&#8217;d\u00a0eat a cheese sandwich at 6pm\u2026&#8221; \u00a0He was kidding (and wrong), but there&#8217;s much to be said for synchronicity across space. Enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}