Startup Invents Long-Distance Kissing Machine (theguardian.com) 50
A Chinese startup has invented a long-distance kissing machine that transmits users' kiss data collected through motion sensors hidden in silicon lips, which simultaneously move when replaying kisses received. From a report: MUA -- named after the sound people commonly make when blowing a kiss -- also captures and replays sound and warms up slightly during kissing, making the experience more authentic, said Beijing-based Siweifushe. Users can even download kissing data submitted via an accompanying app by other users. The invention was inspired by lockdown isolation. At their most severe, China's lockdowns saw authorities forbid residents to leave their apartments for months on end. "I was in a relationship back then, but I couldn't meet my girlfriend due to lockdowns," said inventor Zhao Jianbo.
Then a student at the Beijing Film Academy, he focused his graduate project on the lack of physical intimacy in video calls. He later set up Siweifushe which released MUA, its first product, on 22 January. The device is priced at 260 yuan ($38). In the two weeks after its release, the firm sold over 3,000 kissing machines and received about 20,000 orders, he said. The MUA resembles a mobile stand with colourless pursed lips protruding from the front. To use it, lovers must download an app on to their smartphones and pair their kissing machines. When they kiss the device, it kisses back.
Then a student at the Beijing Film Academy, he focused his graduate project on the lack of physical intimacy in video calls. He later set up Siweifushe which released MUA, its first product, on 22 January. The device is priced at 260 yuan ($38). In the two weeks after its release, the firm sold over 3,000 kissing machines and received about 20,000 orders, he said. The MUA resembles a mobile stand with colourless pursed lips protruding from the front. To use it, lovers must download an app on to their smartphones and pair their kissing machines. When they kiss the device, it kisses back.
Remote kissing protocol (Score:2)
Send your kiss through our mail user agent!
Someone put this in an RFC. March 32nd is right around the corner.
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It's not a real kiss, it's just a MIME encoding of a kiss. Just going through the motions like someone else is really there.
NFT released next month! (Score:1)
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what the world really needs (Score:4, Funny)
We've had the internet for 35 years, and there's still no way to punch somebody through it. And it shows.
Since I forsee a small market for the recievers, maybe they could cobble something together disguised as an Amazon delivery bot -"ding dong, BAM!"
BBT did it (Score:5, Interesting)
And I can't help but picturing really like this [youtube.com].
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_q-DhQwZog
Or I suppose there's always thimbles.
And before that, .... (Score:2)
back in the 1980s, my GF's mom built a pair of devices she called "Pheely Phone". It was a shoebox sized device with an electron-neumatic mechanism that controlled the inflation pressures of balloons, also in the device, based on data received from its companion device and sent data to its companion. In use, a user of each device inserted their hand and could feel the movements of the other user's hand. Not "remote hand holding" but a kind of remote hand caressing.
Let me know (Score:1)
when you invent the long-distance blowjob machine.
I might even finance your startup.
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There's got to be multi-billion dollars in that one.
Re: Let me know (Score:2)
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you'd stick your dick in a machine with remote control? what could go wrong?
Coming soon (Score:3)
Asimonv's novel from the middle of the last century, about the inhabitants of a really wealthy colony of Earth that only meet for pre-arranged sex to produce an heir, and *everything* else is virtual.
Except that we've got in-vitro fertilization, so no need to *ever* meet another human being.
Re: Coming soon (Score:3)
No. (Score:2)
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Too late, they're already on the road. But they really do seem rather unambitious about it:
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But I already have made plans for a celebrity line of kissing machines with pre-recorded kisses of for their fans!
do they have a patent? (Score:2)
Fleshlight might have prior art?
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I looked this up some years ago after speaking with a Fleshlight distributor in an academic forum (seriously): Fleshlight patent. [google.com]
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not sure I want to open that link ;)
Nothing new under the Sun (Score:4, Interesting)
Once upon a time, there existed a long distance... f***ing machine, called FuFme.
http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
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It's called Your Mother ;-P
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That was a joke but yeah.
US Republicans Already Gearing Up To Ban It (Score:2)
It's bad enough that they have access to how many videos I've watched of "hot girls dancing in bikinis" data from TikTok, but THIS - THIS GOES TOO FAR, I say!
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> It's bad enough [Chinese gov't] have access to how many videos I've watched of "hot girls dancing in bikinis"
Just search & watch a lot of "Hot pole-dancing Pooh Bear" and they'll want to black-list you from other authorities seeing it.
Conditioned response (Score:3)
Getting closer (Score:2)
The French Question (Score:2)
But does it use tongue?
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But does it use tongue?
Actually, it does not - which is apparently one of the complaints people have about the device.
Love Dolls Sale For Sale (Score:2)
Only $750.00
Once it's converted to streaming data (Score:2)
So China is now copying American sitcoms? (Score:2)
Apparently China is all out of ideas and is now copying things they see in American sitcoms.
Big Bang Theory! (Score:2)
Re: Big Bang Theory! (Score:2)
Might Be a Good Investment (Score:3)
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I think the change from teen sex, which has gotten easier despite everyone needing to 'protect' schoolgirls, to a relationship is more difficult. There's the obvious: A husband isn't a step-up when she has a degree, a car and a career. Equally obvious, the ever-increasing price of housing means conditions are less suitable for family life. The biggest surprise is working hours are less regular, meaning there isn't an income for keeping children. Or, people are working more hours, meaning there is less
the inevitable outcome (Score:2)
Someone will pair this with a digital rectum, and then all hell will break loose.
A real life FUFME? (Score:3)
Anybody here old enough to remember this old bit [easylife.org] from the dot-cum era?
I'm surprised that's still there. I think the original Hampster Dance bit the dust ages ago.
Million Dollar Home Page [milliondol...mepage.com] is still up though. I think the creator set aside some funds that would generate enough interest to host indefinitely.
coming soon... (Score:2)
Coming soon: the orgasmatron. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
It's For Ass Kissing You Dolts (Score:1)
Wrong application (Score:2)
Instead of having it as a pair of remote lips, what you want to do is put an algorithm behind it to make it a 'decent kisser' without a human on the other end, and then mount it in a Real Doll.
Have it humanize a robot instead of dehumanize a human.