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Scientists in Japan are working on a kissing machine that will effectively transmit the feeling of a kiss, but kissing experts aren't yet convinced that the device can measure up to the real thing.

The research is being done at Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications with the ultimate goal of seeing if the tongue-tied test subjects can experience a kiss via machine.

The prototype pucker machine looks like a larger version of a kid's juice box with a straw-like apparatus sticking out of the side.

"If you take one device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, the other device turns in the same way," researcher Nobuhiro Takahashi told diginfo.tv "If you turn it back the other way, then your partner's turns back the same way, so your partner's device turns whichever way your own device turns."

Takahashi says the tongue-twisting effect is achieved by motor rotations that are controlled by the user via computer.

"The turn angle information is sent reciprocally by both devices to maintain the same position," he said.

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