The gadget is in its prototype phase now and supports in iOS only.
The researchers from the Imagineering Lab at City University London has crafted a new gadget called ‘Kissenger’, a kiss messenger that promises to replicate your kiss to a paired device, that will kiss the recipient for you.
The gadget is in its prototype phase now and supports in iOS only. It communicates with the mobile phone via its headphone jack and iPhone users can kiss in the device’s pad, which registers the pressure of the kiss to app.
The recipient can then press his or her gadget to the lips or check, while motors under the silicone pad push out your “kiss”.
The researchers will also be recording physiological data such as heart rate and blood pressure to find out if kissing remotely would feel the same way as real kisses do.
Emma Yann Zhang explained that the Kissenger is especially designed to at least sweep long distance problems away. She wrote that her kissing machine is an “effective communication of deep emotions and intimacy through a multi-sensory internet communication experience.”
The Kissenger is the PhD project of Zhang, who works in the lab of Adrian Cheok in the City University London.
Earlier, a research lab at the Singapore National University also made an announcement about developing a kiss messenger but it’s unclear that they ever got made the device.