November 29, 2005
The Atari Vibe
*sigh*
Bless their hearts.
So, it's not quite a SexBox, but I'm sure the atari vibrator instructions over on HST will certainly make the retro fan in your life very happy. They can now grind away on their controller for hours on end while bombarding themselves with the latest chiptune releases from all the other bedroom-bound hermit geeks that've realized that they can't afford Native Instruments programs and therefore try their damnedest to make OctaMED cool again.
Now, if you'll excuse us, we'll go back to modding our XBox 360 controllers.
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November 28, 2005
Sexual Interactions 2006 Workshop at SIGCHI
The Sexual Interactions Workshop is being held during SIGCHI 2006 (Montreal, Canada), and are currently having their Call for Participation. The workshop will cover Sex and Human/Computer Interaction, with some of the following goals:
- To understand how sex and themes related to it can inform current HCI practice and discourse.
- To explore the challenges in conducting human-computer sexual interactions research.
- To brainstorm novel technologies, interactions, and research methods inspired by human sexuality.
- To create a community for future discussion and exploration of the topic.
Academic legitimacy, here I come...
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50 Cent Vibrators: The Rapper, Not the Amazon Products
50 Cent Vibrators: The Rapper, Not the Amazon Products
It appears that we're about to take on even *more* competition in the sex toy market. Rapper 50 cent has been reported as saying “I need to make a 50 Cent condom, and a motorised version of me. A motorised version of me will definitely have to be waterproof, so you could utilise it in the tub. A lot of them (vibrators) aren't waterproof."
Now, I find it interesting that he delves into the issues most of us sex toy engineers have when building our products. Not a lot of people have the foresight to think that "I don't know if big is better because I'm not sure a man wants his woman playing with a really big dildo."
So batten hatches, boys, 'cause there's about to be a dildo driveby. Maybe, like the IGDA recommends, we could release a 50 Cent SexBox with the 50 Cent Vibrator for while you play the 50 Cent game. I'm sure just even mentioning this new, awesome level of consumer branding just gave an ad rep an explosive hardon somewhere.
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November 27, 2005
Malebots: The Reprogrammed DVD
Malebots: The Reprogrammed DVD
Though we're not trying to get into the habit of becoming porn advertisers (wait, who the hell are we kidding, if someone gives us many, we'll tattoo their names on our... site), when the porn has to do with robots, we really feel that it should be a special place on our page. MaleBots, the premier site for muscular men who go "beep", has just released their first DVD, chock full of metal plated buttocks goodness. Tons of animations and movies are included on the disc, so you better be ready for some hard core sensor fusion as these mighty bots have their heuristics set for low weighed paths pointing to ASS with sufficiently high tolerance!
(This is why they don't let robotics engineers write ad copy.)
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November 26, 2005
Slightest Touch
In the rest of the medical industry, it's call a TENS unit, and it's used for pain relief. But, slap a purple cover on that shit, flower it up a little bit, and you've got a female orgasm machine!
The Slightest Touch is, from what I can tell, a lower power TENS unit. Hook a pad an each ankle, and you've basically completed a circuit with your crotch in the middle. All the nerves between go tinglytinglytingly, including the sometimes hard to reach orgasmy ones.
We'll be doing more with electrostim at some point, assuming I can ever figure out how to safely to tell a bunch of random people on the internet to shock the shit out of themselves.
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November 25, 2005
The VibeRider
Note: The actual site is Flash only, doesn't work in anything but IE, is horribly broken, and asks for your credit card thru an insecure order form. Bad shit. However, if you still wanna visit, it's viberider.com.
Now everyone will be playing shot gun for the bitch seat! With the VibeRider, you can control the pleasure of your passenger, either through a remote control, or with a sensor detecting motor RPMs. Of course, on a piece of machinery moving at 50 miles an hour, and the only thing protecting you from hard, stationary pavement is your grip on your partner, is it really smart to be orgasming...?
Shit, who cares! It's extreme orgasming!
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Solar Powered Vibrator
Why not have a little sexual fun while developing that nice malignant melonoma! Now instead of wasting batteries, you can fry yourself happily in the sun using nothing but the power of the sun.
I actually managed to find one of these in a local sex shop for $3, it seems to be pretty capable of driving most small vibes, though don't expect it to rock your world. You may get .5w out of this if you're lucky. However, it's always a last resort if you're out of batteries!
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November 23, 2005
The Tentacle Dildo
This post doesn't involve motors or circuits or technology at all, really. However, I know that unlike myself, many of my readers actually have other interests and hobbies. So for those of you wacky otaku out there that just can't get enough tentacle rape through video form, now you can live it! Just remember to use protection.
Also, if you don't mind that "I will never be able to unsee this but I'll take a brilo pad to my eyes anyways" feeling, poke around the ZooFur site a bit. It'll give you ideas, like, say, Alternative weapons for your next Flash Mob Pillow Fight. It's also great for party games like "How the hell do you get that in THERE?"
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Technolust
So if we ever expanded the SexBox into a wearable outfit (and that now seems like a fucking awesome idea to me...), this is probably what it would look like. Wearers of the Technolust suit were to apparently engage in some sort multiplayer game (the specifics of which aren't really given), which will use the suits for haptic feedback. As the users interact with each other, the suits cause vibrations in the erogenous zones.
Yeah, I am SO making one of these.
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November 22, 2005
Video Games Meet the Fukoku 9000
Video Games Meet the Fukoku 9000
Button mashing is still a very important skill in video games. That repetitive stress injury you picked up playing track and field in the 80's will still get you far today in quite a few handheld and party games. But in a world filled with mod chips, game genies, action replays, and other "rip all the difficulty out of the game and play it like a WUSS" toys, why even bother mashing when you can get a finger vibrator?
Now, those of us that play with ourselves regularly know about the Fukuoku 9000, the little finger attachable vibe. Well, someone realized this was a good idea for video games now too, and they've introduced a finger vibe that doesn't have an easily findable name. So, fukuoku owners, you can now put your sex toy to a new use, and weird DS vibe owners, well, you got a 2 for 1 bargain.
See, and people say the revolution controller is a sex toy?
via Kotaku
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Onanism Onset Attention Deficit Disorder
Onanism Onset Attention Deficit Disorder
There's a a new study out, documenting the levels of distraction of the masturbating male. Test subjects were given a survey while in a "non-aroused" and "aroused" state, going through a sort of academic "hot or not" application involving pictures such as "women's shoes; a 12-year-old girl; an animal; a 50-year-old woman; a man; and an extremely fat person."
From the article:
They explain how they recruited 35 students, offering to pay each a small fee for the effort of masturbating while answering a survey. Each student was given a laptop computer with a keypad "designed to be operated easily using only the non-dominant hand."
Adapt that keypad to work with general computing, and they could make MILLIONS.
via Annals of Improbable Research Blog
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Roboraptor as Nipple Clamp
Ok, so I've had fun with the idea of the Wowwee!! Toys as Sex Object thing before, but this is totally new. I've seen people pay a good amount of cash for nipple clamps, but a roboraptor as nipple clamp? That's just some fucking ingenuity right there. Of course, due to our "no skin" policy here on slashdong, you'll just have to trust us that it's happening. Either that, or like, click the link.
Via Technorgasmic
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All 3 Cores... ALL MINE...
I usually don't talk about my own fetishes and sexual experiences on here. Mainly because I'm an overweight, hairy engineer who enjoys putting the toys together more than using them, but also because I do like to have a smidge of privacy in my otherwise public butt-plugging waving life.
However, tonight, I got to experience one of my favorite pleasures. It only comes around once every 4 or 5 years, and it's very, very special. It gets better with every season where video games grow more popular.
It's the joy of holding your ticket in a next gen console raffle, and suddenly hearing your number called. You stride confidently to the counter, you throw down your plastic card (the key to all good things on this earth), and in a small scale orgy of new technology and raw holiday season materialistic lust, with 500 sad, pathetic, LOSER voyeurs gathered around you, THE WINNER, you gratuitously hump that piece of hard, fast machinery until the clerk finishes ringing you up and forces you out of the store.
You walk out to your car with the biggest god damn consumerism hard-on the christmas season has ever seen, past the angry parents, the angsty college students who didn't have cash for it anyways, the crying 10 year olds. You feel like a warlord surveying the conquered, Low Price Guarentee Kingdom he just ravaged, carrying his sword that contains nothing but pure light and joy. You have raped their women, you have kill their men, you have TASTED THEIR BLOOD, AND MY GOD THAT BLOOD TASTES BRIGHT GREEN WITH CRAZY LITTLE NON SYMETTRIC CIRCLES THAT TICKLE YOUR TONGUE.
Too bad it was only a Core system.
Coming soon: SeXBox 369
Thanks to Brenda for stooping to my level and coming up with the 369. Welcome to the gutter, it's cozy here! :)
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November 19, 2005
The Touch Engine
The Touch Engine (Japanese Press Release)
You know, it's been a long time since we've usurped some mainstream, normal haptics press release and turned it into a naughty toy. Too long, actually.
So, thanks to Sony for the Touch Engine! This is a new form of low power, low profile vibration circuitry will allow touch pads and buttons on small, embedded devices to vibrate.
From the Press Release:
Touch Engine uses piezoelectric vibrators that can be operated using a low voltage electric power source. Therefore, it could be easily integrated with mobile devices such as digital still cameras, PDAs, etc. (It is already used for SONY UCP-8060, a professional controller device for broadcast stations.) Touch Engine is based on the technology developed at Sony Computer Science Lab.
So, now any touch pad or button could potentially become a toy. I'll never trust the touchpads of my friends laptop's again.
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November 18, 2005
The Japanese Handjob Machine
Hot damn! I'd seen pictures of this machine floating around a year or so ago, and I'd always been looking for more information on it.
This is a Japanese toy that has multiple attachments that it can move in an up and down motion. One of them happens to be a little hand that's just creepy as shit. The toy runs around $350US, which seems to be the norm these days for automated guys toys. Of course, shipping the thing to where not-Japan you are will probably increase that cost half over again.
via Sexblo.gs
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November 14, 2005
The iBuzz
Hey, look! Someone reinvented the Audi-oh, put an 'i' in front of the name, and all of the sudden it's the latest and greatest iPod accessory!
The iBuzz will cause things to vibrate to the music playing on your iPod. That's about it. Not much new or special otherwise, but if you're absolutely DETERMINED that everything that touches your precious hipster security blankie will start with an 'i', you can now stop grumbling about all of the Audi-oh owners.
Oh yeah, and I think this thing is around $20 or so cheaper, though the shipping from the UK will probably eat that. :(
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November 10, 2005
Smellosex
Regina, girl, you craaaaaaaazy.
In terms of replayable or virtual sex stimulation, we've got 3 of the 5 senses pretty covered.
Sight: There've been drawings for millenia, pictures and movies for over a century
Hearing: The phonograph to the tape recorder to CDs to mp3s, as long as you moan into the mic, someone can hear it later.
Touch: For guys, as long as fairly holes have exists, so have toys. For women, "marital aids" have existed for well over a century.
So, that leaves us with two senses left to go: smell and taste. I'm honestly not sure how taste is gonna work, and up until today, I wasn't too sure about smell, either. That all changed when I read today's entry on the Sex Drive Blog.
The post was initial about Cell Phone Scents. Basically, litlle air fresheners that poof whenever your phone rings. However, Regina, god love her, managed to dirty it up a bit. She suggested using the, er, "scent" of a lover in place of whatever horribly fake potpourri mix was in there at the moment. (Though I can't really imagine what the... extraction process would be like)
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thinks of crazy shit like this.
I can only imagine that shit going off in an elevator. There's really nothing like a nice, concentrated shot of pheramones in a small, non-ventalated room to make things go either very right or very wrong very quickly.
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November 8, 2005
Mac S&M
Mac S&M (Flickr Slideshow, Flash Required, No-Flash Needed Set Here)
I know a lot of people love their Macs. They love their Macs a lot.
However, some people *l*o*v*e* their Macs, and know how to fulfill the needs of the machine. Luckily, these people also post pictures of it to Flickr. Warning: Those not into slot close-ups and laptop lock S&M might find this set hard to handle.
This photo set is either awesome in a horribly strange way, or strange in a horribly awesome way. Or both.
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November 6, 2005
BeepSex: TranceVibrator Patch for Max/MSP
BeepSex: TranceVibrator Patch for Max/MSP
Since we don't have enough project series going yet, it's time to add another one to the pile. Beepsex is all about audio triggered sex. Be it software (as it is in this case) or hardware, we're taking our usual role as mcgyver-respecting potheads and sound is our new bong making material. Except, you know, we do the sex stuff, so it's only illegal in some southern states.
In this round of BeepSex, we hook up the Rez TranceVibrator to Max/MSP, the visual audio/video programming environment. Using this patch, you can set any Max object that outputs an integer value to feed into the TranceVibrator speed control. Making music that will only be appreciated by drugged up kids or bedroom hermited monitor tanned geeks has never been so sex filled!
We recommend listening to Ganucheau while reading this article.
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November 5, 2005
How Shit Works: Drawing Power from USB Ports
How Shit Works: Drawing Power from USB Ports
First off, I'd like to welcome our newest contributor, LZ! I look forward to having someone writing for us that's way, way better at this stuff than I am. :) Now then, onto the article, our first original content in 3+ months.
Ever since the inception of the USB spec in 1995, USB has quickly become the leading connection mechanism for mass marketed PC peripherals. One of the advantages is the fact that products can draw power directly from the port instead of having to rely on an outside source. In this article, we explain the specifications and limits of drawing power from USB, as well as revealing some of the "off the spec" secrets USB Designers use.
If you're wondering what the hell this has to do with sex toys, go to your local sex shop and look around. USB powered toys are becoming quite common these days, since the power output is more than enough to drive a decent vibration motor.
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November 2, 2005
DildoCams For Sale
So Dildocams are nothing new. They've been around for quite a few years (and have even spawned a few lawsuits), and as a search on google can tell you, they seem to be quite popular as a porn keyword. We're planning on doing a dildocam building project here on Slashdong sometime in the future, but I don't see them on sale often, so I thought I'd go ahead and share this one.
Now, it looks like there's two RCA plugs coming off of it... One is video, but the other... Could that be a mono audio link?
If so, I'm getting one of these ASAP, and taking over the minimal environmental ambient scene. Move over Biosphere, there's a new band dropping microphones into gaping holes now!
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November 1, 2005
Research for Sex In Games Project needs Interviewees
Brenda Brathwaite, head of the IGDA Sex In Games Special Interest Group is currently looking to interview several individuals who regularly engage in cybersex for an upcoming project she's working on. If you would like to be a part of this project, please contact her at brenda at mmorgy dot com.
via MMOrgy
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