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Kissing device lets you send a wireless smooch

By Paul Marks

11 July 2012

IF YOU’RE missing your partner and fancy a smooch, it’s time to pucker up. Well, so long as you don’t mind kissing an eyeless Mr Potato Head, that is.

A new messaging device, dubbed Kissenger, lets users send kisses wirelessly to one another. Unveiled at the Designing Interactive Systems conference in Newcastle, UK, in June, Kissenger comprises a pair of pressure-sensitive soft plastic lips which protrude through a smooth plastic casing the size of a large Easter egg.

The lips contain pressure sensors and actuators. When you kiss them, the shape changes you create are transmitted in real time over…

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