A university in China's Changzhou has invented a device that has created a stir in Chinese social media circles.
The ‘kissing device’ is intended to let long-distance couples share virtual intimate moments. Netizens have reacted with both curiosity and shock because how can one kiss their partner from a distance?
The device is equipped with pressure sensors and actuators, the device is said to be able to mimic a real kiss by replicating the pressure, movement, and temperature of a user’s lips.
The mouth-shaped module, served as an inducing area for lovers to make kiss and then it can transfer the kissing gesture to the "mouth" on the other side.
Along with the kissing motion, it can also transmit the sound the user makes.
“In my university, I was in a long-distance relationship with my girlfriend so we only had contact with each other through the phone. That’s where the inspiration of this device originated,” Jiang Zhongli, the leading inventor of the design, was cited as saying by the Global Times.
Here are just a few of the reactions from social media users;
@birik.mohamed-This technology should stop there now, it's too much to take it, and you Chinese guys mtatuonesha maajabu bana
@isaiahlangat-China Square on my mind 😂
@akasha-bae- Wueh,Hawa Chinese ni moto wa kuotea mbali,si eti.kaa walitengeneza coronavirus,hikasumbua ulimwengu mzima,hii ya mpenzi wagechelewa vipi.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣,hope haina hidden agenda 😂😂
@rixxchris- This is how digitization is struggling for the soul
@gubz58- china be inventing some weird sh*t😂😭❓
@kimogele- This is really not a surprise, in fact, its way behind schedule considering where tech stands now,
@arwaodiri- Long distance relationship hitch solved
@thelanetv- It can also transmit the sound the user makes😂😂😂😂
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