the vibe meetah

(c)1999, 2000
Yuri Sunahara
Josh Rooke-Ley
Rania Ho

The vibe meetah is a portable device that lets you feel other people's heartbeat from a distance.

By donning the stylish vibe meetah (tm), and slipping the special pointing device on your index finger, You can send your heartbeat to your partner across the room and they can literally feel your every move.

How Does It Work?

We have some examples of early prototype schematics and C code that you can look at if you understand that stuff. But basically, the pointing device is the patient interface for a pulse oximeter that we hooked up to our circuit. The pulse oximeter would take the user's heartrate and send it to the Vibe Meetah. Then the Vibe Meetah broadcasts a pulse of infrared light with each heartbeat. Strapped to each pointing device is an IR detector. The IR detector picks up the pulses of the other person and translates each pulse into a low frequency beat in a speaker on the back of each device.