Device Lets You Kiss Someone Thousands of Miles Away - as part of the news series by GeoBeats.

How do you stay in touch with that special someone when away from him or her? Are text messages and video chats not enough? Then you have to check out the Kissenger - a product that aims to simulate a real kiss even if you and your partner are not together in a physical space. You are essentially transferring a key through the means of interactive media.

As its designer describes - Kissenger provides a physical interface enabling kiss communication for several applications facilitating intimate human tele-presence with the real and virtual worlds. Apart from the surface level enjoyment humans have by kissing, it also plays a crucial biologically motivated role in allowing prospective mates to smell and taste each other's pheromones for detecting compatibility. 'With the aid of digital communication media and advanced robotic technology, the system takes the form of an artificial mouth that provides the convincing properties of the real kiss.

What do you think about Kissenger - do you see yourself using it?