LDR couples may now kiss through Mobile Phones, Want to Try?

One of the factors provoking the couple to live a long distance relationship or a long distance relationship (LDR) is a can not often meet to satisfy the desire, either face to face or mere physical contact.

However, there is now a sophisticated gadget that could dampen the sense of longing for a while. The gadget in question is Kissinger.



As the name implies, the device created by a student of computer science at City University London, Emma Yan Zhang is able to accommodate the needs of the LDR partner in Kissinger.

Introduced in the conference 'Love and Sex with Robots', Kissinger has a form like the phone casing. The way it works is users simply pressed his lips as if he were kissing on the surface made of silicon.
Furthermore, the sensor will read the movement of the lips planted and send it to Kissinger opponent, so that the user will feel the sensation like a real flirt.

Although the device created a sophisticated and have little intelligence robot, Emma himself admitted that he did not want Kissinger to be part of the relationship between humans and robots. He even opposed the idea of ​​robots and humans can live together in marriage, as predicted by some experts recently robot.

Kissinger at this time is in the testing phase Turing in a lab to determine the difference between being kissed by humans or robots. Therefore, Kissinger not currently sold to the public.

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