Kiss Controller is a game that you play by making out. No need to re-read that sentence; actually, the Kiss Controller is a game device that lets kissing control the speed and direction of a bowling ball. Rather than focus on the gamers' movements this game ‘seeks to generate the emotional experience of a kinetic act while users play the game.’
Kiss Controller uses a customized headset that acts as a sensor receiver; a magnet supplies the sensor output. Using Fixodent, the user attaches a magnet to his or her tongue. The headset, worn by player 2, has magnetic field sensors located in front of the mouth.
One person has a magnet on his/her tongue and the other person wears the headset. While they kiss, the person who has the magnet on his/her tongue, controls the direction and speed of the bowling ball for 20 seconds. The goals of this game are to guide the ball so that it maintains an average position in the center of the alley and to increase the speed of the ball by moving the tongue faster while kissing.
Kiss Controller
Each interaction controls the speed and direction of the bowling ball for 20 seconds. The goal of the game is to keep the ball in the center of the alley. the controller has been invented by Hye Yeon Nam, a digital media artist working on audio/video/robotic installation and Sam Mendenhall. Hye Yeon Nam is a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds an M.F.A. in digital media from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Does Kiss Controller sound like a game you might want to play?