Sensory Fiction?

According to a story on NPR, MIT engineers have developed a way for readers to experience the physiological emotions of a book they are reading. A book was "augmented" to help set the mood through lighting and vibration and a "wearable" was developed to help with the physiological sensations.

The book and wearable support the following outputs:

• Light (the book cover has 150 programmable LEDs to create ambient light based on changing setting and mood)
• Sound
• Personal heating device to change skin temperature (through a Peltier junction secured at the collarbone)
• Vibration to influence heart rate
• Compression system (to convey tightness or loosening through pressurized airbags)

To read the NPR story, please visit:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/06/272044748/sensory-fiction-books-that-let-you-feel-what-the-characters-do?

For more pictures of the book and wearable, visit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38088189@N07/sets/72157638927649876/