In an age of flourishing e-commerce options for the hyperactive armchair shopper, success is rated in how few clickthroughs it takes to complete the process. Compartmentalising the shopping experience, from prospecting a range of items through a selection of characteristics and agreement on price has never been an easier task to perform. However, despite the monumental success of e-commerce as pioneered by Amazon and others, and the finessing of mobile technologies to encourage zero excuses to shop at any given moment, the ability to indulge in tactile experience is wholly missing. Humans come equipped with many ways to interact with the...