New device allows you to make out with your computer

Chris Spags Founder and Editor

Finding kissing people with normal flesh and a soul to be too difficult? Well, A) Trying moving out of New Jersey. And B) You may be interested in this new device that lets you make out with your computer. THE FUTURE IS NOW.

Japanese researchers from the Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications have been hard at work making their kissing robot which allows people to experience all the sensations of a kiss without all that yucky effort and physical contact.

Above is one of the researchers, Nobuhiru Takahashi, showing off all that hot robot tongue action promised of the device.

The device also allows users to link up their machine to a “partner” machine over the Internet, meaning that you make out with your easy Rosie from “The Jetsons” while your partner does the same across the globe, allowing you both to simulate a kiss without being in the same hemisphere.

Takahashi says the machine replicates the “elements of a kiss includ[ing] the sense of taste, the manner of breathing, and the moistness of the tongue.”

I’m going to be a contrarian here and say that this is actually kind of cool. Granted, I’d prefer not to tongue down electronic devices until I’m forced into a prison in the year 2030 in which I must fellate my fellow robot prisoners in order to survive, but it’s a pretty amazing thing that you could even sort of substitute electronic devices and data for the sensation of kissing a loved one thousands of miles away.

That said, it literally could not be easier to make out with a random person these days. And if the choice comes down to me making out with a PS3 to try to keep some relationship with my true love 10,000 miles away going or heading to a bar and risking the herp with some girl in a sequined dress, I’m going with ol’ Shiny McHerp every time. I’m old-fashioned like that.

A New Kissing Device Lets You Make Out Over The Internet [Fast Company]

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