Do you or your partner travel a lot or are you in a long-distance relationship? If yes, then you know the distance sometimes can be painful.

Even the long phone calls or kissing your lover goodnight through phone doesn’t seem enough at times. To fill up this gap of physical intimacy that distance brings, a university in East China’s Jiangsu Province has invented a unique device that plants a kiss on your lover with a touch of the button.

The device, which is called ‘Kissing Device‘, features silicone lips that come with pressure sensors and actuators and plants a kiss by replicating the pressure, movement and temperature of the user’s lips.

Apart from the movement, the device reportedly also transmits the sound that the user makes.

The ‘Kissing Device’ has been touted as a way to let long-distance couples share some real physical intimacy. As soon as the news about the device got out on the Internet, it became a topic of fascination among netizens.

“In my university, I was in a long distance relationship with my girlfriend so we only contacted each other through the phone. That’s where the inspiration of this device originated,” said Jian Zhongli, the leading inventor of the design, also a graduate from the university, as quoted by globaltimes.cn.

Users need to download a mobile phone app in order to send a kiss to their partner and plug the device into their phone’s charging port. Once the device is paired with their partners in the app, couples can start a video call and transmit replicas of their smooches to each other. The device has a mouth-shaped module and can be connected with the smartphone through Bluetooth.

Many social media users on Weibo called the device “vulgar” and “creepy”. Some also found the device weird, adding that it was a bad idea.

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