Pillow Talk is a wearable device that transmits a user's heartbeat through a small speaker hidden inside a partner's pillow, designed to create an illusion of closeness for long-distance relationships. The product was created by Joanna Montgomery as a university project and went viral in 2012. Montgomery previously raised a seed round of about $200,000 and is now seeking additional funding to complete product design. Once design is finished the team plans to launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, which the article says is coming soon. The project generated significant early interest, amassing roughly 43,000 Facebook fans and 45,000 mailing-list sign-ups during its viral moment. Montgomery frames the product as an attempt to shift communication away from screens toward more discrete, presence-focused interactions.

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