May 30, 2006
A Few Online Sex Resources
So while I've been reading up and adding things to the Slashdong Wiki (something I'm kinda sorta half-assed annoucing through multiple blog posts until I actually get it populated enough to do something real), I've found some other wikis and community sites that I think SD readers might be interested in:
- The Stockroom Forums - Lots of very smart sex people all gathered in one place. Violet Blue, Midori, Steve Diet Goette, KumiMonster, Lucky Lana, as well as Allen from The ThrillHammer and as of about 10 minutes ago, me.
- The London Fetish Scene Wipipedia - Everything you could ever want to know about BDSM, in user-updatable wiki form.
- The BME Wiki - Everything you could ever want to know about putting things on or in yourself that were not originally on/in there.
a couple of those via Tiny Nibbles
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Interview with Violet Blue on Teledildonics
Interview with Violet Blue on Teledildonics
Over at Clean Sheets, a great online erotica magazine, there's a (2 month old. Gah, sooooo far behind) interview with Violet Blue (whom I have now met and can confirm is a real person, versus a piece of cognisant, sex educating AI stored on a computer somewhere) on the current (as of 2 months ago) state of teledildonics and sex tech. Lots of good information, and more importantly, good references to Slashdong, so, all around, I feel this piece is definitely Pulitzer material.
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Love Detection, Technology Style
Love Detection, Technology Style
Why lean on gut feeling and fate to find true love when you can give someone your hard earned cash to tell you whether things will work or not? If you find yourself thinking that often, Love Detector is here for you!
Love Detector uses some of that crazy voodoo "technology" stuff that also runs the internet and my toaster and whatever makes my VCR blink 12:00 to analyze voices over any quality line on a range of processors, including your PC, your cellphone, and your pocket pc!
As their site says:
The concept of actually having a tool that can tell you whether the person you are talking to really loves or care for you is incredible and unbelievable.
I'll say! It's totally both! At the same time, even!
I swear, if I could get this thing to register a positive feedback while I was saying "Ike loves you, baby" to someone, well, that might make my day as much as the whole FORM LIKE VOLTRON search did.
via Shiny Shiny from like a month ago. Yes, I'm still catching up.
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May 29, 2006
And another thing.
You know. Some days, you realize your purpose in life, why you were put here on planet Earth.
Like today, when I found out that when you google "Form Like Voltron".
Slashdong comes up as THE SECOND LINK.
No, seriously. I mean, I come up first on a bunch of terms, like 3Feel and Woomba and vr sex toys.
But dude.
"Form Like Voltron"?
I win at internets. I totally, totally win.
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Battling Seizure Robot Condoms
Battling Seizure Robot Condoms
Yeah, I could be all coy and say "Click the link for some crazy shit" and all, but really, this needs to be laid out in its full glory on as many places as the internet can handle, because, god damn...
Dude. Robot. Motherfucking. Condoms.
I mean, let's go over this. We have:
- Robots
- With Lasers
- And Guns
- AND ENGRISH
- On a CONDOM Package
For all you fuckwads that say otaku never get laid, well, you're probably right, but in my their dreams, my their cock just FORMED LIKE VOLTRON and blew your motherfucking head off.
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May 26, 2006
Troll Patent Regulation and Teledildonics
Troll Patent Regulation and Teledildonics
Violet Blue has an interesting discussion of the current SCOTUS ruling on troll patents (patents made with no intent of invention, which are held until a profitable conflicting product is made and is then used for lawsuits against said product), and its relation to the teledildonics patent. While it's not a sure-fire way to knock out the patent, it's certainly a step in the right direction.
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Meat Tenderizer
Sometimes, you're wandering through Bed, Bath & Beyond, and you see things. Things that are supposed to be at BB&B, sure. But, there are ulterior motives. Obvious ones.
Now, here's the webpage's description for it:
Two-in-one tool has a spiked surface for tenderizing, a flat surface for pounding cutlets and chicken breasts. Chrome-plated zinc. 3"Dia. x 6"H.
So, the bottom reverses. The top has a flared, rounded handle.
For those of you who just missed the obvious train, what you're looking at here is an incredibly cheap metal buttplug with possible fetish play capabilities.
Flip the flat side up, you've got a nice, weighty metal plug that looks nice. Put the spikey side up, and you've got a plug with a acupressure base, perfect for training or just a new and interesting sensation. I don't think I'd recommend you use it for pounding food-grade meat after that, though.
Just wait 'til your next trip to a cooking store.
As a wise man once told me, "It's all about how you look at things."
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What's up with qDot
As you've probably noticed, posts here have been rather infrequent and randomly themed lately. There's a few reasons behind that, and while I don't usually get into my personal life on here, it's only fair to let people know what's up. Not that any of it is bad.
So, first off: I'm movin'. Time to rise up out of Oklahoma, land of fucked up video game laws and religious pandering on state grounds. I'm headed off to San Francisco, land of heathens, harlots, and general sinnyness, to work for Linden Lab, makers of Second Life. That is, until god decides to bitchslap the faultline and we all fall off into the ocean.
Unfortunately, the timing of the move means I will not be able to attend the Sex in Video Games Conference, coming up in a little over 2 weeks. With the absolutely amazing list of people on the panels, it really sucks to have to miss this. So, even though I'm not going to be there, everyone reading this should totally sign up and go.
As for Slashdong, well, there's a few things I'm planning on doing. First off, I'm adding a new section, on DIY/Non-Traditional build projects going outside of our usual technology scope. I'd really like Slashdong to be about all sorts of open projects, not just the crazy electronics stuff I come up with. Many of the fetish scenes have relied on DIY for years ("Home Depot: The Kinkiest Store On the Planet"), and with the current DIY resurgence, I figure I might as well get the hits while I can put together a community of builders, tinkerers, inventors, and others instead of just engineers.
Also, I've felt that my tutorials, while educational and informative as they currently are (as well as damn funny. Probably more damn funny than anything else, actually), have suffered from a lack of crossreferencing and updating capabilities.
Therefore, it's time for the obvious solution: The Slashdong Wiki. This solves multiple problems I've been facing, including:
- Easy to update information
- User/Community Created Content
- Awkward content layout when done in article form
- Other stuff
If you'd like to be a contributor to the Wiki, please email me at the tips at slashdong address. There's a lot of information to add, and I'm gonna do what I can when I can, but with this upcoming move, time will be fleeting until like, September.
Ugh. I know this is going to end well, but the end is a long, long way off.
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May 23, 2006
The DIY TranceVibe Project
With prices of TranceVibes (Warning: Old article, will be getting updated soon) going all sorts of weird on eBay, it's about damn time someone put a homebrew version together. That's exactly what the The Drmn' Trance Vibe project aims to do.
There's a lot of great information in here on how to develop control schemes for sex toys, written in a nice, easy to read yet sufficiently technical manner. There's also some lovely documentation of the issues you can get into building these sort of things when you don't have a workbench at home, heh.
Great to see other people doing DIY projects like this! Maybe I'll get around to that SexBox v5 tutorial i've been putting off since, oh, February...
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May 16, 2006
Podcasts/Audio Recordings of Conferences and Talks
It's really weird to listen to yourself talk very fast, for 30 minutes straight, without stopping, about a single subject. Especially when you were doing shots of tequila throughout.
But, that's what podcasts are for! With a bevy of directional mics pointed at me, I waxed poetic about teledildonics, video game sex, sex technology, fetishes, and anything else I felt like for half an hour at the Second Life Herald party at SXSW Interactive. Why it took me 2 months to post this, however, is another question completely.
If you liked that, you can also pick up the GDC talk by Brenda Brathwaite with me doing my silly act at the end. However, that's gonna run you $7.95. It's worth it, though.
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May 12, 2006
Acrobat: The next big porn app?
Acrobat: The next big porn app?
Or, if you're too lazy to look:
Kanuck: i like to look at porn in pdf files.. just so i can make the little hand grab things.
Yeah, it's that kinda "I could post something useful, but why?" days here at Slashdong.
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May 6, 2006
Review of the SIGCHI Sexual Interactions Workshop
Review of the SIGCHI Sexual Interactions Workshop
So, of course, I haven't had time to write the rest of my experiences in Montreal, so instead I'll just link to someone else's analysis of the workshop. Corey Silverburg, About.com's Sexuality Guide as well as one of the founders of the Come As You Are Sex Toy Store, has written up two absolutely wonderful overviews of the workshop. So, I'll let his writing dig me out of my usual conference blogging procrastination hole.
Workshop Overview - Short Version
Workshop Overview - Long Version - Recommended, as it covers all the presentations throughout the day.
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May 2, 2006
Happy Kitty goes on sale!
What rolls down stairs and over in pairs and... No, wait, that's Log.
We're sick of log. You can get Log in any store these days.
Why settle for Log when you can have the newest in female pleasure technology? (Things like this are why I'm never, ever allowed to write ad copy, ever)
The Happy Kitty Massager is the newest toy out on the market, made by awesome, smart people who actually care about making something that will provide pleasure versus making a quick buck by manufacturing something curved and pokey. Regina Lynn has already had wonderful things to say about them, and having talked to the engineers myself, I must say, god damn, they're pimpin'. Possibly big.
So, go buy 1. Or 14. Or just 1. 'cause there's only 2000 in the first run, and you won't wanna deprive 13 other people. Unless you plan on wearing the thing out. Which you probably won't, because it's quality hardware. But, if you're one of those paranoid types, by all means, stock up.
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Joba Horseriding Exercise Machine
Joba Horseriding Exercise Machine
You know, there was a day when I had to work to write these posts. Now, they just fuckin' write themselves.
From the CNet Page:
built in conjunction with Nagoya University to offer a form of horseback-riding therapy, this mechanical horse [...] apparently stimulates those seldom used muscles in the dorsal and abdominal regions and decreases waist size without the user exerting much effort.
Man, I couldn't have put it better myself. Not only that, I could've totally ended this with a "Well, strap a dildo to it and we're done" message. But no. Seriously. IT GETS BETTER.
From the Product Website:
- Advanced 3-D virtual reality technology imitates horseback riding experience and helps to build physical strength and endurance
- All-new 8-Curve Action with "Forward/Backward" tilt and horizontal motion, strengthen abdominal, side, thigh & back muscles
VIRTUAL REALITY. FORWARD/BACKWARD TILT.
I can't even make this shit up. I want like, 5 of these. They're only around $1600US, too.
via Wonderland
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Aer-O-Scope
Well, it's been a long 8 weeks of traveling, but I'm finally done. Back at home, where I get one day of rest before I start moving my ass from Oklahoma to San Francisco. So get ready, Bay Area, you're about to see a very slight blip of an increase in your perv level!
Anyways, enough about me, back to what matters: weird medical tools that really don't have any sexual connotation until I post them here!
Today's line of posts on this subject starts with the Aer-O-Scope from GI-View. Since I can't say it any better than the webpage itself does, it's a disposable, miniaturized, self-propelling, self-navigating, endoscope with a unique vision system targeted for the screening colonoscopy market.
Now, that may sound pretty boring, until we combine this with some idea to turn it from boring to AWESOME. I'm totally thinking Augmented Reality Gaming here.
I mean, really, how much fun would Astroids be if it involved the lower GI tract!
Or, since I'm required to say it, I'm sure this is someone's dream teledildonics interface. I mean, there's gotta be customers if Square Peg can sell these, ya know...
Via The Annals of Improbable Research
Heee, I said Annals.
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