Last Update: February 27, 2023, 19:01 IST
A user needs to download the mobile app and plug the device into the phone’s charging port. (credit: SCMP)
Jiang Zhongli, a Chinese university graduate, invented a kissing device that allows couples to send realistic kisses with pressure sensors.
Chinese social media users are causing a stir over a bizarre kissing gadget that is being marketed as a tool to enable long distance couples to have true physical intimacy. Twitter users have reacted with both interest and surprise. Long-distance couples can now share intimate moments virtually, using a remote kissing device developed by a university in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. According to China-based Global Times, the device with “silicone lips” has pressure sensors and actuators that can simulate an actual kiss. The gadget, with a mouth-shaped module, can also simulate the pressure, movement, and warmth of the user’s lips. To put it another way, it is a device that allows users to kiss their significant other sitting in any part of the world over the internet.
The Global Times also reported that the Changzhou Vocational Institute of Mechatronic technology Patent was filed on the invention. A graduate of the same university, Jiang Zhongli, who has been identified as the leading inventor of the device, claimed he was in a long-distance relationship with his partner when he received the inspiration for the device. The only way to keep in touch with him was by phone.
Users need to download an app for their phones and connect the gadget to the phone’s charging port. After connecting with your partner on the app, they can start a video call and send each other a replica of their kiss.
The app-powered gadget costs 260 yuan (about Rs 3,000) on Chinese e-commerce website Taobao and is selling more than 100 units every month, reports the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
Although many social media users found the gadget amusing, others described it as “vulgar” and “creepy”. Many expressed serious concern that children would buy it and abuse it.
One of the top comments on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo read, “I don’t understand (the device), but I am completely shocked,” reported the SCMP. Several hashtags related to the gadget have collected hundreds of comments and views on it. device for the last one week on social media platforms like Twitter used in China
Some have compared the Kissing Gadget to “Kissenger”, a similar device that went viral online a few years ago. Kissanger was created by the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia in 2016 and also enabled remote kissing.
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