Mutsugoto

Out of sight, out of mind...or a severe case of absence makes the heart grow fonder? Two of the worst platitudes to offer a heartbroken 17 year old pining as only a 17 year old can. Long distance sucks. Always has, always will. But wait! Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it Bhangra man?? No, it's BBCWorld.com! The purveyor of all that is just and right in this world.

If you're thinking Mutsugoto is a karate wielding chick with huge eyes and boobs offset by a pert nose and hips doing a Crouching Dragon Hidden Tiger to bridge the distance thing, think again. No, it's not the loofah used by demure, twittering ladies arrayed around the hot tub ready to scrub your back. It is in fact (as I've been reliably informed by the great Beeb), a device. And not merely of the ordinary ilk, but a portable one. One designed as an alternative to email and messaging, to communicate intimacy between forlorn couples.... Hmmmm!?!?

Touch activated rings and a camera. Is this a polite way of taking kinky sex into the mainstream? Apparently, when you wear the ring and run your hand over your body, the strokes are transmitted and projected in light across the other body and the lines change colour if they cross.... A virtual kaleidoscope of romance, as it were :p. But here is the bit that caught my attention - the next level - a game where you can throw yourself at a life-sized image of an opponent anywhere in the world, and apparently, the prototype even registers brute force. Hmmmmmmm.........

Ingenious? Award worthy? Impressive? Will it save the environment?? I'd rather pledge Buffet/Gate's philanthropy and ALL my ill gotten gains in support of Roddenberry's vision. Beam me up Scotty!