Remote lovers to kiss. People in shock.

We have seen a lot of videos about long distance lovers on the internet. They are using many new technologies to not miss their lover who is far away. Video call facility gives the opportunity to see each other often without seeing each other in person.

Similarly, if lovers in two different places want to watch a movie together, apps like Teleparty, Amazon Prime Watch Party, Scener, Chrome Watch Party, Rave, TwoSeven, Watch2Gether, Cast, SyncPlay, Plex help. But another major thing that misses between lovers is kissing. There is no device yet to transmit a kiss, the act of reciprocating their love. But now there is. A university in Sanzhou, China has developed a device for kissing. This has sent shockwaves beyond Chinese social media to global netizens.

The ‘kissing device’ is said to allow far-flung lovers to share their romantic moments as virtual moments. A system has been developed that mimics human lips using silicon. The contraption is equipped with pressure sensors and actuators with these ‘silicon lips’. The device will mimic the pressure, movement and temperature of the user’s lips, the report says. China’s Global Times reported that the device could mimic a real human kiss. And the price of this device is 288 Yuan which is ₹ 3,433 in Indian currency.

To use this remote ‘kissing device’, users need to download a mobile application developed for it and plug the device into the mobile’s charging port. After connecting to the internet with their lover through the app, they can start a video call. They can then send copies of their kisses to each other through the same app, the company said.

The device’s inventor, Jiang Zhongli, says he was in a long-distance relationship with his girlfriend and was inspired to create this new type of device because he could only keep in touch by phone.

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News about this device is spreading like wildfire on the internet. And there are mixed opinions and debates about this device. Some lament the social condition that children are likely to buy and use this device made for lovers. Similarly, many people are commenting that the dimension of love called kiss should not be suppressed in the machine.

Earlier in 2016, the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia introduced a similar device named ‘Kissinger’ in the form of a touch-sensitive silicon pad.