04 Contactless will be a currency

Touch is fundamental to wellness. There’s the rub – or not – in our brave new socially distanced world. Modern society’s “touch hunger” has become a physical contact famine that negatively impacts our health. McGroarty is keeping an eye on the hands-free alternatives: air chamber and sound-wave bed massages, fingernail-mounted “haptic interfaces” that can simulate the feel of skin and hair, even whole sensor gloves. The future: clothes that adjust the body positioning of the wearer.