Online Hugs

Scientists in Singapore say that they've developed just the tool for working parents who want to stay close to their children: the online hug. All the hugee has to do is wear a special hugging jacket. The hugger uses the internet (how hasn't been disclosed)to signal to the jacket to give the hugee a squeeze. They're testing it on Singaporean chickens (who must feel very well-loved by now), and are hoping to market it to parents sometime in the unspecified future.