Microsoft has patented technology that could cause the creation of clothes that makes a person’s skin tingle when they receive a message.
The patent application points out that it is increasingly rude in society to constantly take out your phone to check for new text messages and emails, while vibrating alerts are often not felt.
Microsoft has suggested a discreet mild electrical stimulus to be applied to the skin whenever the wearer has a new notification on their phone.
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‘Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing electrical stimuli to skin of a user to convey information to the user. For instance, the electrical stimuli may inform the user of an event, a condition, etc.’
In the patent’s diagrams, Microsoft includes a shoe and a T-shirt as examples of clothing which could used to incorporate the stimulus.
The company said the technology could be used to tell a user when the clothes are about to wear out, or help them to navigate through streets by using various stimuli around the body.
The patent was first filed in February 2014 and published on Thursday.
It is not guaranteed that the technology will ever go into production.