Love and technology [1] going together like horse and carriage in the future? Check. Feeling slightly creeped out after glimpsing what this marriage might actually look like? Check.

A Finnish firm called Provoke [2] is showing off a new mobile phone prototype [3] that connects users through touch. The soft-backed phone transmits contact between callers, so you could play a game of thumb war — or something like that [4] — with your lover from afar.

Watch the video below to get a better sense of how this concept works, but beware that the phones in action look kind like the guy's stomach in "Spaceballs" right before the little alien pops out.