{"id":12566,"date":"2012-07-24T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T19:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=12566"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T20:13:46","slug":"kissenger-the-kiss-you-can-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/hardware\/kissenger-the-kiss-you-can-resist\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissenger, The Kiss You Can Resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lovotics is at it <a href=\" https:\/\/techcitement.comhardware\/a-robot-that-loves-singapore-researchers-say-its-coming\/#.UAiVr6C8ouc\">again<\/a>. This time, the Singapore-based company is working on a system that transmits kisses from one person to another. Lovotics calls the device a <a href=\"http:\/\/kissenger.lovotics.com\/\">Kissenger: The Kiss Transmitter<\/a>, and it&#8217;s, well, it&#8217;s a little creepy. Actually, creepy is probably an understatement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0uYb7AWKwY\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okay, let&#8217;s run down the list of problems.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How lazy is this guy that he won&#8217;t walk into the next room to kiss his girlfriend? (She&#8217;s his girlfriend, right? I mean, I hope she&#8217;s not just a random coworker that he&#8217;s virtually harassing.)<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to build a system to transmit kisses over the internet, it would probably help to make the transmission module in the shape of a human face, not a weird pink monster. This is a turnoff to all but a very specific group of people.<\/li>\n<li>The lips don&#8217;t part, so frenching and making out are out of the question. It&#8217;s pretty much limited to just chaste kisses. Unless you&#8217;re into, like, licking your partner&#8217;s lips, an idea that I&#8217;m kind of sorry I just typed.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m just going to say it. The lips look like they&#8217;re made of the same material as a Fleshlight (Ladies and old people, you&#8217;ll have to search for that one on your own.), but the lips on a Fleshlight <em>do<\/em> part, and while the&#8230;<em>stimulation<\/em> is not shared, it certainly must be more, um, <em>robust<\/em>.I don&#8217;t know that for sure. I&#8217;m just saying, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve heard. &#8230; From people who apparently talk to me about how it feels to use a Fleshlight and OKAY NEXT BULLET POINT PLEASE.<\/li>\n<li>How bad do you feel for former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger? A lifetime of work and if this takes off, googling his name will get people to a kissing robot. Up until now, all Kissenger had to worry about was people finding that clip of him dropping his glasses in the toilet on <em>The Simpsons<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For an extra case of the uncomfortable shivers, here&#8217;s a video of the device&#8217;s original look in its concept form.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"575\" height=\"470\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PlK1w-BUL3A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Notice the amateurish PowerPoint-like introduction and that the Kissenger looks like a giant ostrich egg. Because, as we all know, ostriches are the most kissable of flightless birds.<\/p>\n<p>In closing, no, Lovotics. Just no.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lovotics is at it again. This time, the Singapore-based company is working on a system that transmits kisses from one person to another. Lovotics calls the device a Kissenger: The Kiss Transmitter, and it&#8217;s, well, it&#8217;s a little creepy. Actually, creepy is probably an understatement. Okay, let&#8217;s run down the list of problems. How lazy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[905,31,908,1918,1609],"tags":[913,3110,745,914,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16339,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12566\/revisions\/16339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}