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Good news, awkward fanboys! Japanese scientists are working around the clock to make digital ads interactive enough that you can make out with them. Keidai Ogawa, a researcher at Keio University who is obsessed with his country's pop idols, has outfitted digital posters of them with ultrasound sensors that change the image to a kissy-kissy face as you approach. He's also working on getting the displays to recognize "the scent of shampoo on the hair [and] lemon-flavored film on the lip regions."
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