Students from the Japan's University of Electro-Communications created device that makes possible kissing over the internet, from one person to other. You use your tongue to move a piece of plastic, attached to a connected box, to simulate a kiss.
The plastic moves in the same way with your tongue and transmits information to the other party. For example, if you move the plastic to the left the other device's plastic will be also moving to the left, in real time. To make the transmission work, the person in the other end has to have the same setup in order to receive the kiss.
If you take one device in your mouth and turn it with your tongue, the other device turns in the same way. It's that easy.
Even though the system is being fancily described as a "tactile communication device", it's pretty basic in it's current form. The students are now working on was to simulate other features of a kiss, like moistness of the tongue.
You can see a demonstration video, thanks to DigInfoNews, Tokyo :
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