The world continues to astound. We are now privy to a planet that has a video game that is controlled by french kissing.

Kotaku:

Hye Yeon Nam has found a way for people to control a bowling video game by French kissing. Kissing and playing video games were just never fun enough on their own, now were they?

Even watching a video of the Kiss Controller in spit-swapping action doesn’t quite make it clear how putting your tongue in the mouth of someone you like can make you a better video game bowler. Thankfully, on her site, artist Hye Yeon Nam explains how things work:

“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.”

Let us never say that impracticality stopped us from inventing things.

Hit the jump for this Ninth Wonder in motion.

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