The “tactile communication” system for now is probably a little rougher than even a teenager’s first awkward kiss, though it might remind you of that first milkshake you and your significant other shared. After all, the Kiss Transmission Device mainly consists of a person on one end manipulating with his or her mouth a bent straw attached to a computer that stores information about the "kiss" and sends it to another box to repeat the same motions in a recipient’s mouth. 

The system is currently based on a single PC, but could be extended over a network, a researcher says.

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A video from the University of Electro-Communications’ Kajimoto Laboratory, seen below, shows how it’s done.

“The goal is to obtain the feeling of kissing,” through bilateral control that replicates the same movement on both ends, says Nobuhiro Takahashi, from the Graduate School of Information Systems.