June 29, 2005
Robotic Arm to Perform Long-Distance Breast Exams
Robotic Arm to Perform Long-Distance Breast Exams
Keeping with the "I don't have time to actually research tech sex stories since I'm moving so I'm taking what I can get" theme (though this should certainly appeal to all you medical fetishists out there)...
Because cold metal tables arn't creepy and uncomfortable enough, there is now a robotic arm capable of testing for breast exams. Sensors in the arm allow doctors to perform long distance mammograms using telecommunications. Other than being an amazing device to fight breast cancer and save lives, it's also interesting way of connecting people in a rather... personal situation.
via We Make Money Not Art and Shiny Shiny
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Brain scan finds the penis (At last!)
Brain scan finds the penis (At last!)
Scientists have now definitively located the area related to penile sensing on the "homunculus" (translation: "little man". I love science sometimes), or map of body parts on the brain. By tickling subjects with a soft brush (certainly worse medical experiments to be had) while recording brain activity through an MRI, researchers isolated the exact position of where 99% of male thought takes place.
Screw teledildonics. Slashdong is going wetware!
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June 27, 2005
Sex Toy Manufacturing in China
Sex Toy Manufacturing in China
Sure, you stick them on things, in things, around things, up things, and many numerous other prepositions. But did you ever wonder who makes the sex toys? This article from the Guardian talks about the sex toy factories and public canoodling of the youth of China. With an opening paragraph like this, how can you lose (you know, other than the low wages, horrible working conditions and social repression)?
With a glazed look in her eyes, the bored production line worker dips her hand into a bag full of short and curlies, peels off a strip of double-sided transparent tape and applies the furry finishing touch to a plastic vagina.
If you're interested in how production comes together, Toys In Motion has a few pages about their production trip to China for work on the Priceless. Educational AND cute (make love chicken, hehehehehehe)!
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Touch Me! Exhibit in London
Touch Me! Exhibit in London, June 16th - August 29th, 2005
Touch Me! is an exhibition of projects involving touch feedback. It showcases experiments and projects involving how humans deal with touch in control actuation and communication situations. From turning on a TV by stroking it to learning why people greet each other physically in different ways, there's a ton of stuff to be explored at this show.
Too bad I'm on the wrong continent to go to this, it sounds really interesting. Anyone in the UK wanna do a field trip report? :)
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June 25, 2005
Mod Rez Trancevibe to work with any vibrator
Mod Rez Trancevibe to work with any vibrator
Remember the Rez TranceVibrator? 'course ya do! It's the peripheral that launched a thousand hard-ons.
Thanks to our forum members, we've now found a site that hosts a tutorial on how to modify your TranceVibrator to work with any vibrator you own!
That being said, be warned (as they don't warn you on the tutorial page): this mod has around the same safety level as the SeXBox v1 mod. If you pull more than 500mA through this (or possibly 100mA, not sure how PS/2's USB setup works), it's going to hopefully just shut down, but might also cause other undefined behavior. So test whatever vibrator you hook up to this first, to make sure you arn't gonna screw anything up.
Or just wait for our "Make your own TranceVibrator" tutorial, which will be happening sometime in the near to far future.
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June 24, 2005
2257: All porn doesn't have to be people-centric
2257. It is alive, and for those of us in the good ol' NoPussyPictures States of America, the bitchin', moanin', and form fillin' has begun.
Here at Slashdong Labs (I just decided we're a labratory. Next project: bunsen burner dildo!), 2257 isn't doing much other than curtailing a little bit of wank time as we scroll past all of the warnings to get to the pre-1995 pictures (mmmm, flannel porn. I miss grunge.). We didn't have to do shit for compliance other than yank our NakkidNerds ads (That's what you get for never saying hi to me in the hallway at school, Cloei! :P). We don't yet create content (wanna get naked for us? Wanna do it for free? Email us now!), we feature as little flesh as possible (the only known flesh on the site is the GIRL HAND in the SexBox article and my feet in the Sexercise video, and those don't really count), and I doubt many people visit here in order to get off anyways.
Now sure, I realize that people enjoy having sex, usually with other people. We're doing the best we can to eradicate that need through technology, but until then, it seems we're stuck with people wanting to do it with, or at least see others doing it with, people. 2257 really fucks that up that last part.
Since the law has come into effect, you've got a few options:
- Whine, pout, and rant
- Get good at filling out forms
- Remember that all that turns on isn't out-and-out (or in-and-out, teehee) porn
- Use technology to its fullest and possibly get used to some anti-aliasing in your porn
The first 2 options have been covered very, very in depth on many other sites, so I'm not going into that. It doesn't seem like anyone is considering options outside of this, though.
Basically, to get around 2257 without the form filling, you need to take the human out of the human reproduction, but still make it sexy enough that it will make people want to reproduce. Without bringing technology into this, there are still fetishes that may not look like fetishes to other people. I'll cover a few here.
- Fursuits and Furrys
- Sure, the internet hates you and you're considered a joke to most of the fetish scene, but as long as you never take the head off the suit, who knows if there's a real human in there? Now you can point and laugh back at all the people already pointing at launghing!
- Wet and Messy
- A girl with mud on her to some is OMG A GIRL WITH MUD ON HER to others.
- Crush
- Stepping on things. Yup.
See? These are all fetishes. Fetishes that drive people to orgasm. Fetishes that people spend a TON of money to see, but that could easily go on totally under the radar. Someone doesn't have to be looking like they're having sex in order to be sexy. Everyone who got my Crash references in the first Sexbox tutorial knows this.
Also, take this time to think about all the times you get turned on while you're *not* watching porn. All the times you drive by that McDonald's billboard and the picture of Ronald smiling just makes you all happy in your pants. All the times you masturbate to the weather segment of the news, because storms are sexy. All the times when you're watching the poop machine at the local museum and... ok, you get the idea.
Yes, 2257 sucks, I'm not saying it doesn't. This is a setback to the freedoms we enjoy as sexual begins. This is an act by people who don't think you should be seeing other people have sex, and don't want to leave that choice up to you. But remember that we have come so far as a species that we can now sexualize ANYTHING.
Be proud every time you accidently pop a tent and have to cover it up with a newspaper (or don't, if you're, you know, into that).
Be proud every time you have to reupholster a chair.
Be proud and know you're sticking it to the man.
They can ban (or at least, severely hamper and annoy makers of) naked pictures, but they can't ban everything. Hell, we've said that we think engineering and math are sexy. I got physically attacked (in a good way) when doing Analysis and Graph Theory homework in college. They'll never be able to ban that. I'm sure anyone reading this can think of a similar experience they've had.
As has been said by many a pissed off parent, "It's only dirty if you make it that way". So remember, make EVERYTHING dirty. Life is just more fun that way.
In our next post, we get back to being subversive evil geniuses and start talking about what technology can do to sidestep 2257 compliance.
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June 22, 2005
Telepooping: Copraphilic Teledildonics?
Telepooping: Copraphilic Teledildonics?
Ah, the things slow weeks make me post.
Cloaca is a series of "art machines" built by the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. These machines make poop. Pour different foods in, and the mechnical equivilent to the human digestive system goes to work, taking out the nutrients and putting out waste.
So why the hell is this on a sex blog, you ask?
Well, according to an interview in Bizarre Magazine, one of the Cloaca machines is actually internet enabled! Quote:
"On the New York museum curator's birthday, we fed [the machine] more via commands on the internet, and it produced a big shit for him"
So now we've got force feedback cow rears, and internet controlled pooping. The future of sick fringe fetishes (and completely automated, mechanized cow patty bingo) looks grander every day.
via Bizarre Magazine, May Issue (Reason #924 I hate living in the US: WHERE'S MY SEALED SECTION! :( )
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June 20, 2005
VirtualEVE: Because sex is a game, I guess
VirtualEVE: Because sex is a game, I guess
Bored with porn, but don't wanna actually do the work of getting some? Want to watch computer animated models doing it on a white background? Then VirtualEVE is for you! In this 3d sex "game", you can... have sex.
No, really. That's it.
No killing, no line forming or pattern matching, no wacky "Choose your own adventure" type hentai gaming. Nope, just doin' it. Lots and lots of doin' it.
Oh boy.
At least Roboho made you feel like you were playing a really, really dirty version of Faceball 2000.
Remind me why showing animations on a basic skinned mesh with no background is ground breaking again?
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June 19, 2005
Podcast of Violet Blue's Teledildonics Presentation now available
Podcast of Violet Blue's Teledildonics Presentation now available
Want to hear Violet Blue's Presentations on Teledildonics to DorkbotSF but wern't there to enjoy the show?
You can now listen to it through Open Source Sex (the show is a 31MB mp3), Violet's podcast show! 30 minute of sexy, sultury explanation of why the current teledildonics landscape sucks, and who's doing what about it (like us! :) ).
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June 17, 2005
Tido: Chinese Online Sex Toy
Tido: Chinese Online Sex Toy (Helps if you have a Chinese font installed)
So you may not be able to access half the net due to the Great Firewall, but at least you can have sex online!
From what I can basically tell, this looks similar to the Sinulator, except you're tethered by a USB wire. Still, at 680 Yuan (~$82US) for the whole package, you really can't complain too much, that is, assuming you're on the fun side of the exchange rate. Calculating for average yearly income, this is closer to $500US for people actually living in the nation of production.
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Haptic Cow Butt Simulator
Here at Slashdong, we report on video games and haptics research for a reason. We believe that video games and immersive environments will lead the way to more realistic teledildonics experiences. That being said, we feel we should cover all areas of both haptics and sexual fetishes.
It is in this interest that we present the Haptic Cow Simulator.
What is currently used for simulating the act of finding reproductive tract issues in cows today, it could soon be in the corner store next to the inflatable sheep of tomorrow. Dog butt and horse butt simulators are also on their way.
Sometimes, living in the Midwestern United States pays off, like when you send this link to friends and they honestly say "Boy, I wish I would've had that when I had to learn".
via The Annals of Improbable Research, one of my favorite journals, and also one of the inspirations for this site. Now that I have a finite Erdos number, my next goal is getting published in AIR or maybe even aspiring to win an Ig Noble.
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June 14, 2005
Nobra's Silicone Dreams
Nobra's Silicone Dreams - Custom Dildos with decently priced internet hardware and free software!
From Germany comes Nobra's Silicone Dreams, vibrators and dildos in pretty much every shape and size you can possibly imagine, and some you probably never thought of. They look incredibly well made, and come in every color you could possibly need to match your outfit every day of the week.
In addition to all of that, they distribute reasonably priced internet hardware for their vibrators, along with free, no-subscription-service-needed software. It even comes with plugins for mIRC so you can use it through any IRC server, and from what I can tell, it also works with some of the games that the software developer writes and distributes.
Don't want to pay for the box? Instructions and board layouts are provided! I *KNEW* someone else had to be doing this, I guess I just needed to look outside of the US. :)
Now all I need is an english translation of the Nobra page. All of those years of listening to Einsturzende Neubauten don't seem to be doing me much good when trying to read German webpages.
via Fleshbot
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June 13, 2005
How Shit Works: Teledildonics
After months of broken promises and shattered dreams, it's finally here. Everything you'll ever want to know about how to hook up your sex toys up to your computer and give grandma the birthday surprise she's always wanted.
Teledildonics is easy. Really easy. Save yourself hundreds of dolalrs and bypass the commerical middleman easy. All you need is a program that can connect to another computer and send a few numbers, and a small circuit that can translate these numbers into a power level. We lay out the theory behind these components, and give you just enough information to seriously hurt yourself. Much of what is presented in this tutorial will be seen again in our FreeSex Network project, so now is a good time to start studying.
There WILL be a pop-quiz on this soon.
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Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: Sex Game Unlock
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: Sex Game Unlock
GTA has insinuated sex events since the first game in the series, but there's never really been any full on boot knockin'. At least, not until today. According to the news currently going around the net, changing a few values in the scripting system or using a patch allows you to unlock a "have sex with your girlfriend" mini-game. Even though there's video of the mod being used, there still seems to be some speculation whether or not this is a hoax. Looks pretty real to me.
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June 12, 2005
Utopex site opens, toys violently expensive, miserable failure ahoy!
Utopex site opens, toys violently expensive, miserable failure ahoy!
I'm pretty sure I owe a couple of people $5 for losing the "Utopex is vaporware" bet, but I think I can make my money back on charting their success rate, or lack thereof.
So, another teledildonics company is out of the starting gate and already way, way, way off the goddamn track. First off, why the hell does everyone think they are the first to market with an internet enabled toy (In Utopex's case, I'm referencing this page - bottom line on the page, "Utopex is the first and largest exchange for Internet enabled adult novelty toys.")? Almost every toy company I've seen claims they are "The First Internet Enabled Sex Toy!". Being first doesn't matter if you still suck.
Anyway, back to the site review. First off, the toys. As I said in my last post about the company, Utopex has definitely got an interesting lineup going for it. They have an internet controlled spanker, tongue, and thrusting phallic mechanism. I have to give them serious style points for having completely original toys there. However, their prices are fucking INSANE.
- Tongue: $345
- Spanker: $369
- Thrusty Thing: $4 fucking 95
FOUR HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS for the same thing Toys in Motion does for $139. The tongue is most likely an adapted version of the Anal Tongue Vibrator (I'm linking to a shop that doesn't have any in stock so I don't feel so bad about advertising, heh), which can be had for $30-50 at most sex shops. The spanker? I'm honestly not aware of any auto-spankers right now, but the fetish community contains enough ingenuity that I'm sure they exist.
Utopex is up against Highjoy, whose toys run from $50-130 with a $30 monthly fee assuming they ever get enough users to drive the thing to pay, and Sinulator, which starts at $100 before addons (not sure about a fee here). Assuming Utopex's software and service prices were so ridiculously cheap that it made up for the toy price, it might be worth it.
Nope.
Utopex's monthly fee is between free and $24 for varying ranges of services. But all that gets you is very basic services. In order to start searching and using your toy with others, you have to join a club, and there goes more cash! You get a $25 credit just for buying the toy, but there's no mention of recurring fees, and some of the clubs cost $100. Whether this is some sort of play currancy or actual cold, hard cash, I don't know.
Oh yeah, and the club page is violently, violently broken. I have a hard time believing they currently have 4000 people online when they don't have anything on sale until tomorrow. Clear your test data off the page before you put things up, people!
Now, the real kicker? THE INTERACTION SOFTWARE COSTS $27! So you've got to pay for the software, then pay your way into the clubs. What everyone else has been giving away for free, they charge for! Go smart business practices!
As usual, there's a Developer's API available for what I can only imagine is some sort of ridiculous fee. Not to mention, their API ties you into their service, so they're still making bank on the club and account costs.
So, they've got every facet of their business covered with some idiotically expensive cost, they've got zero internet coverage other than my little rinky dink blog here, and their page seems to be in a non-working state. Chalk up another lost cause for the internet sex revolution.
There's one upside to this whole fiasco, though. Their opening page image, which we will be archive here so that even when their site dies, we'll still be able to enjoy it.
Mmmm, yeah, you place that surface mount component with your hot, long Weller PES51 Soldering 50 Watt Pencil... Mmm, turn the knob on that WESD51 Soldering Station. TURN IT! TURN IT!!!!! (We realize it's probably just a WES51, but it's our fantasy, so let us believe it's a digital. If it were really our fantasy, it'd be a MetCal.)
Aw yeah, there it is. Melting point. Mmm, look at that solder flow. Hand me the desoldering wick, I made a mess.
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DiGRA Conference this week focuses on immersive environments
DiGRA Conference this week focuses on immersive environments
Whee, our first mailed in post!
DiGRA 2005 is a games research conference happening June 16th-20th at Simon Frasier University in Vancouver, Canada. Assuming you've got an open schedule and an extra $400 to burn ($100 if your a college student, in which case this becomes very worth it), it looks like it might be worth going, as this blogger from D'Log points out...
"Of the eight or so fresh gaming ideas on offer in the showcase: in Organum players use their vocal expressions to collaboratively navigate through a model of the human voice tract, while co-operating with each other based on purely visual feedback; in Queer Power one or two players shift sexual roles arbitrarily during a "kind of head-to-head coitus game"; and in BLOWHARD players compete "by breathing into a specially crafted CPR mask, where a breath sensor translates cumulative respiration into the player's current level of anxiety, players must increase their anxiety level gradually, moving up one stage at a time. As the level increases, the media responds, with the video becoming more intense in an effort to match the player's state of mind. The first player to get to the top, wins!"
One of the new projects that will be coming up on Slashdong here in a while is similar to these ideas (and may possibly now be a paper idea for this conference next year. Mmmmmmmm publication *Homer Simpson Sound*). Can't give too much information yet, don't want to ruin the surprise. :)
Via D'Log, thanks again for telling us about this!
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June 11, 2005
Battle Raper making its way to the PSP
Battle Raper making its way to the PSP
It looks like H-Games are on the way to the new generation of handhelds! In an article by someone who you can tell obviously never played Battle Raper 1, screenshots and a lot of ridiculously over-excited dialog are presented for Sony's PSP running Battle Raper 2. Sequel to one of the worst fighting games I've ever played (even Strip Fighter was better than this), the Battle Raper series takes the titty twister to a whole new level. Special moves (all two of them per character) make the camera zoom in on sexual encounters, and winning a match means a choose your own path prerendered suck and fuck fest with all of the mosaiced genitalia (flash) and detached hands causing fighting squirt queens to orgasm thru some method that sounds like macaroni and cheese being stirred (also flash, plus nomination for Best Use of Particle Systems EVER) your "pimp hand exercise on polygon women counts, right?" ass can handle.
via Fleshbot
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June 8, 2005
Elmira, er, Teledildonics 'round the World!
The Wired article has now been translated to Japanese, Spanish, Portugese (Please note: I call "Cibervibradores" for band name purposes. MINE.), and even Canadian! Possibly more, but these are what I found through my referers.
Now, seeing I can hardly speak English (as anyone who's had to proofread my articles realized), I had to throw all of this stuff through Babelfish to see if anything had been added to the info presented in the article. Of course, it just turned everything into incredibly silly gibberish, but once again, it's a slow news day, so I thought I'd share.
From the Japanese Article:
If sight ' slash Don which thinks of the relationship of sexbetween technology' the chairman, the calling ' q dot ' (qDot), only the opportunity it is, you think whether those which does not reach the point where everyone can participate in remote sex.
Portugese:
The initial idea of the creator of the site can take some to consider it a demented person (or not, who knows...): a vibrator that, on to the PC, vibrates fast more depending on amount of people deceased for you in the game "Quake".
I'm honestly impressed with how well language translation engines are doing these days, but it looks like we've still got quite a ways to go.
Note: The post title is a reference to Tiny Toons. Go ask your teenagers who will still admit they watched cartoons in the 90's. Just don't tell them where you saw it.
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Vice Versa: Playboy Spreads Open Source Software
Playboy Spreads Open Source Software
Well, we usually try to talk about open source porn/adult stuff on here, but it's a slow news day for sex tech (Utopex still ain't open.), so we'll take something that's the other way around.
With an article header so ribald even we would be proud to use it, NewsForge presents an article on the SysAdmin of playboy.com, and his contributions to the OS community. mirrors.playboy.com features mirrors of Apache, Perl, FreeBSD, CPAN, and all sorts of other OS goodies, and is run off of Playboy owned hardware. For everyone who feels their webserver reinstall needs to be accompanied by a dry martini and a smoking jacket.
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June 7, 2005
Will sex in games ever actually be sexy?
Will sex in games ever actually be sexy?
We've come from Custer's Revenge and Beat'um and Eat'um, thru Cobra Mission and the other MegaTech games, a horrible amount of HGames, and all the way up to 7 Sins. Yet, no matter how many lesbians you make in The Sims (It's a tripod site people, so be kind), or corpses you teabag in Halo, there's just no getting over the fact that sex in games simply isn't sexy. It's silly at best, and horrifyingly disgusting at worse (PyramidHead rape scene in Silent Hill 2 comes to mind). This article in the Guardian blog gives an overview of why sex in games sucks, and what needs to be done to bring back that lovin' feeling.
via Fleshbot
Slashdong: For all of your "how many links can we throw in one post about a blog article", er, well researched post needs.
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June 6, 2005
Intimate Transactions: The Transmute Collective
Intimate Transactions: The Transmute Collective
Intimate Transactions is a art project that links 2 users in seperate locations together through a multimedia experience that is controlled by physical stimulus. Placement of the hands, pressure of the back, and gestures can all change the appearance of images on the screen and audio coming through the surround sound speaker system.
No sex involved in this, but still a very interesting immersive enviroment project.
via Technorgasmic
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Utopex: New teledildonics company featuring online spanker
Utopex: New teledildonics company featuring online spanker
Utopex is the newest player in the Teledildonics market, and their toys seem to be the most experimental of any of the current manufacturers. Their lineup includes an online spanking toy as well as a USB controlled tongue (which would be great as a sex toy or for a coffee table conversation starter). No word on their prices or usage policies yet, but they'll be presenting at Erotica-LA next week. Their site is a little low on content at the moment, but I hope we see more from them soon.
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Thanks + Why Paypal Hates Freedom
Wow, of all the weekend to pick to be away from any sort of internet connection for 2 days... I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that's responded to our requests for help and sponsorship, I'll be getting back to all of you throughout the week, so don't think I've forgotten about anyone. :)
Now then, as for the "Why not just use PayPal?" questions I've been getting... I can't use PayPal because PayPal will freeze any accounts taking payment for ANYTHING sexual. PayPalSucks.com has tons of stories of people getting accounts frozen/closed due to this (including this post, which talks about SlutWifeCharms.com, easily the best place to buy christmas presents for all your loved ones). For those interested in the exact terms that Paypal uses, I've added the Mature Audiences Agreement to the extended part of this post.
The involving minors part is the real problem. Video Game Controllers are normally marketed at kids, so the SexBox would be a big ol' heap of problems.
Don't worry, we'll figure out something in the near future, we've got enough people willing to help now that there should be a solution soon.
Paypal's Mature Audiences Policy
You may not use PayPal in the purchase or sale of, or receipt of donations for, any obscene or sexually oriented goods or services.
In determining what goods or services are prohibited under the Mature Audiences Policy, PayPal will consider some or all of the following factors:
- Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct.
- Representations or descriptions of intercourse, masturbation, excretory functions, or lewd exhibition of the genitals.
- Dominant theme of the material or website.
- Literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
- Safety and protection of its customers, both buyers and sellers.
- Medical or educational usage of the product or service.
Any sexually oriented goods or services involving minors, or made to appear to involve minors, will automatically be treated as violations of the Mature Audiences Policy.
PayPal will not include sexual preferences or viewpoints as a factor in determining what goods or services are prohibited under the Mature Audiences Policy.
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June 3, 2005
Porn straight to the PSP
Sick of having to use TV or computers or your pda or the DVD player in your car or your toaster to watch porn? Well, now you've got yet ANOTHER choice! Hardcore porn from Japanese compnay Glay is being released as a signed, ready to go cartridge in Japan. Now you have one more way of cooling off after those frustrating sessions of Lumines.
via Gizmodo
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Yay, we're in Wired! We need help!
I just spent the last 7 hours writing content for the site and trying to get ready for the gigantic media blowout that will be Slashdong in Wired (I love you, Regina. Please marry me, but only if my fiancee says you can.) tomorrow. It's amazing how you can forget all about sex after writing about it for 7 hours straight.
Anyways, I figure I should use this time to ask for help. This site is currently a one-couple operation. I'm doing the best I can to crank out articles and projects, and she's doing the best she can to proofread them and fix my horrible grammar. We get a little help on the side (thanks again to LouderThanGod, Scott Motherfucking Crawford, Guy who I can't think of an interesting name for even though he asked me to, and everyone who has ever linked to our posts), but it'd be nice to have somemore writers, engineers, and other people around to talk to. It's lonely.
So, here's what I'd like.
- Some sort of Adult Store sponsor. I know we're an open source shop, but there's no such thing as a free dildo. I need some way to advertise the toys I use on here, and to get new toys to replace the ones I destroy (I have yet to completely destroy a toy, though the blue LED dildo is getting a little worn, and not from normal use) at some discounted rate, since I po'. If you run a store or know someone who does and would like to talk about terms, have them contact me at the email address below
- Writers would be great. I have quite a few technology fetish topics I'd love to cover, but if it's not engineering, I'm probably not the best person to write about it. I also cannot interview people, as I suck at conversation that requires purpose.
- Engineers who wanna work on projects. I've got ideas, you've got ideas, let's tape our ninjas together to make .
- Can't do any of those things, but are just interested in the site? Sign up on the boards! Converse! Ask questions! For the love off god, get off the internet ass that is the feed aggregator and INTERACT!
So, that is my humble plea. I have a lot of fun running this place, I wanna share the fun. I can do all of the stuff listed above myself (including talking on the forum, like I do now :( ), but content can only be added as fast as I generate it, and if you look at the bottom of the page, you see I have 5 sites to fill. This one is the favored child right now, but I'd like to see my bots and yoyos again someday.
If you're interested in any of this, post on the forums or email me at qdot at slashdong dot org.
We now return you to your irreverant romp through internet sex.
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Let's get a couple of things straight.
First off, the article is up. I'm pretty happy with most of it. The second page is totally fucking ace, I love the way it worked out.
However, since no one on the west coast is going to be awake to fix what I've requested until this afternoon, let me make a couple of small corrections.
- Ugh, rant removed 'cause I shouldn't write things at 6am. Long story short, if you're looking at this at work, you are a naughty, naughty minx.
- Back to a lighter topic... The SexBox will be on sale as soon two things happen. First, I'm trying to figure out what kind/where to install a switch that will lead into the 5v USB line, so you can use the controller ports as either off, reactive (vibration from games), or always on. Should have this done like, next weekish. The other issue is figuring out how the hell to take credit cards online. I have no idea how one goes about getting a merchant account to sell adult products. Due to the high rate of chargebacks and fraud, credit companies HATE these products. If you can tell me how to go about this, I would appreciate it very much (email me with the info, please). I will also document and post about the whole process so no one else has to deal with this. Until then, if you are interested in buying a SeXBox controller, email sales@slashdong.org
That is all. Return to enjoying the site.
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FreeSex: The Open Source Teledildonics Network
FreeSex: The Open Source Teledildonics Network
Teledildonics is a simple technology. A computer, a network, and a small circuit, and you're ready to go. So why does it cost $100+ for the hardware, and $30+ for monthly fees? Why isn't there a free alternative?
FreeSex is an overview for a protocol and communications system to turn teledildonics into a open source developer driven technology. Beating commerical companies to the punch with new features and more security, we may not win the hearts and minds of the masses, but we'll sure as hell have some fun trying.
Note: This article is ignoring the fact that we might have serious patent problems, thank you very much Texas Billionaire. I honestly haven't read up too much on it, and I'm not exactly sure what the ramifications are. This would be a good topic for discussion over on the message boards, but for right now, consider this idea to be written by someone living in utopia.
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Teledildonics demo a rousing success
Dorkbot Teledildonics Presentation goes off with minor hitches
Last post about this, I swear.
So last night, packets chock full of pussy grinding goodness flew across the country from SF to NY in what was probably the largest public teledildonics demo in (my) recent memory. Other than the ever present "Oops someone forgot to plug it in problem" (which makes up a larger percentage of my problems than I want to talk about), 2 orgasms were delivered thanks to TCP/IP and a little TLC (God I've been waiting to use that all week).
I will also be using "Hey, if you want to watch, I'm fucking her right now." to get attention from now on. Screw yelling "FIRE!".
If you want links to picture galleries and what not, check out Violet's blog.
I would also like to thank Violet for mentioning Slashdong as the source for all your Open Source Teledildonics needs. It's nice to know people know about us. :)
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June 2, 2005
How Shit Works: Vibrators
How Shit Works is the new tutorial article series here at Slashdong. We aim to teach people about science, math and engineering, one sex-based object/action at a time. We'll try to keep things silly and as easy to understand as possible, but beware, you may run into an equation or graph every so often, and after these reading these articles, you might actually UNDERSTAND it. If you understand these things, you will be a geek, and if you are a geek, you will get laid often.
So if you want to get laid often, continue reading.
Kicking off this series is a tutorial on the engineering behind vibrators. A power source, a variable resistor and a DC motor all combine into one orgasm producing power house, and now it's time to take a peek under the hood to see what makes the things tick (or, well, vibrate).
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June 1, 2005
Dorkbot Presentation tonight, location change and performer annouced
Dorkbot Teledildonics Presentation tonight, location change and performer annouced
Nothing like posting about the same event three times now, but it seems to have become a bit of a big deal now. As we've said, the Thrillhammer/Dorkbot SF Teledildonics is this evening. Unforutnatly, it seems that due to some media issues there has been a location change, so the presentation is now at rxGallery, 132 Eddy St. @ Mason in SF (not that it matters much for me anyways, as I'm in the waypoint between NY and SF, so I won't be enjoying either side of the presentation).
The performer manning (womanning? Heh. I silly.) the Thrillhammer for tonight will be NetMichelle, an incredibly pretty fetish model (bald girls with tattoos == yum).
Good luck to all involved, hope things go well! If anyone goes, please poke me with reports at qdot at slashdong dot org.
info via Tiny Nibbles and The ThrillHammer
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