WiFi Lover Cups: Distant LoveBirds Drinking Together

Lover's Cups explore the idea of sharing feelings of drinking between two people in different places by using cups as communication interfaces of drinking.

Distance is not a problem as liquid sensors and wireless links have been built in to the glasses.

When either person picks up a glass, red light-emitting diodes glow on their partner's glass. When one puts a glass to their lips, the other glass glows brightly.



The technology could also be used to check that hospital patients or elderly people are drinking enough water.

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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Lover Cups at MIT Media Lab

Source: New Scientist