• The app has a “kissing square” function that allows users to pair up anonymously with strangers.
• Thus, two strangers who match successfully can ask to exchange smooches if they like each other.
The Chinese have designed a kissing device that allows long distance lovers to kiss over the internet.
The invention has warm, moving silicon “lips” that allow lovers far away from each other to share physical intimacy that is almost real.
The new device has caused both intrigue and shock among social media users in the Asian country.
The device, having pressure sensors and actuators, allows it to replicate the same pressure movement as well as temperature of the user's lips.
Other than replicating the kissing motion, the device also transmits kissing sounds the user makes.
While some took to social media to talk of the fun side of it, others termed the device as “vulgar” and “creepy.”
Others were concerned that underaged children might gain access to it.
To send a kiss through the internet, one has to download a mobile phone app and plug the device into their phone’s charging port.
Thereafter, one pairs up with their partner in the app, then through a video call, lovers can transmit replications of their kisses to each other.
The kissing device has been patented by the Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic Technology.
The leading inventor of the design, Jiang Zhongli, said he was motivated to come up with the gadget as he had a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend and the only contact, they had been through the phone.
The app has a “kissing square” function that allows users to pair up anonymously with strangers.
Thus, two strangers who match successfully can ask to exchange smooches if they like each other.
One can also upload their kisses in the app allowing others to download and experience their smooches.
“My partner didn’t believe that (remote) kissing could be achieved at first, so her jaw dropped when she used it … This is the best surprise I have given her during our long-distance relationship,” CNN noted one user's comment.
The device can be found on China’s online shopping site Taobao and is priced at Sh5184.45.