Would you French kiss your computer?

Sometimes the advances in computer technology can be a bit scary. It can make you wonder just what the people behind the advancement were thinking about when they created the new technology.

Take the recent revelation out of the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo. The 'French Kissing Machine'.

Called an "Oral Communication Device" the machine is intended to simulate a French kiss using bilateral control. That means that two systems would be able to control one another, so that the joystick movement of device A sends motion instructions to device B, which picks up its own information from its joystick movement and transmits it back to device A as instructions on how it is to move.

Currently a single computer handles the controls, but the creators of the French Kissing Machine can see a time when the devices would be connected to separate computers in different locations and the kiss delivered to one device would be transmitted across the Internet to a second device.

I'm a computer gal and all, but I kind of think I would have to love a guy a whole lot, and he'd need to be stationed in a war zone, for me to French kiss my computer for him.

A clue to what would motivate such a creation might be in something that a student at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Nobuhiro Takahashi, told DigInfo TV:

"For example, if you have a popular entertainer use this device and record it, that could be hugely popular if you offer it to fans."

I'm not so sure I'd kiss even a famous computer, but if there is someone out there thinking up the creation of a computer that can kiss you, then I suppose there are people out there into kissing Hal, WOPR "Joshua", or Number 5.

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Personally, I suspect that they might have had the "Real Love Doll" in mind when they came up with their kissing machine, but that's just my suspicion.

What do you think? Would you want to French kiss your computer? Who would have to be on the other end to get you to try it?