July 31, 2006
Gimme that ol' time teledildonics...
Yay for google groups, and the fun of typing words into it when you get bored!
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TELEDILDONICS - The Ultimate in Safe Sex?
From: Teri Gross
Date: Mon, Apr 18 1994 7:38 pm
Email: t...@netcom.com (Teri Gross)
Groups: alt.sex.masturbation
Computer sex via modem through a BBS? AGC is developing a "Reach Out and Touch Someone" interactive sex device to be released in late '94 or early '95 for under $2,000. From what I hear, it's something both parties wear and the parties control each other's, uh, titillation. I imagine it will also come along with videoimages and graphics, sort of virtual reality sex, but with an actual partner at each end of the, shall we say, "connection." Interested parties can write to AGC, P.O. Box #1019, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266.
I am making this post because I am curious about this device myself, however; don't send me e-mail (I will not respond), unless, of course, you buy one and would like to send me a product review.
I have no afiliation whatsoever with this company, so don't ask me any questions.
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Wow! Virtual Sex for under $2000! And by early 1995!
(And to make all of the other NPR listeners out there feel better, no, I don't think it's the same Teri from Fresh Air. Kinda freaky though, ain't it?)
If anyone has any more in depth information about this, please throw it at our tips email on the side of the front page.
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Harmonic Sex Change
The Look Around You website (if you're not familiar with besselheim trays, start here then just search for Look Around You on Youtube, or just click that link I just made there) hosted a contest for Visions of the Year 2000. Among the entries...
So yeah, this was mostly a post for everyone that wasn't aware of Look Around You, but still, it fits.
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July 30, 2006
Monochrom to hold Sex Tech Conference
Monochrom to hold Sex Tech Conference
If there's anything to bring me out of my blogging hybernation, it's one of my favorite art/culture/whatever groups putting together a sex tech conference.
So, to start at the begining... For those of you not familiar, Monochrom is a Vienna based group dedicated to doing, well, things that fall under the categories of "sweet" and "awesome", the venn diagram of their intersection making just one circle. I'd freakin' kill to go to Roboexotica, and Waiting for GOTO (Beckett and Technology, together...) is something I hope will do a run over here at some point.
For those of you who want to know more, I vehemently point at the Monochrom Wikipedia Site.
Getting back on track, Monochrom has just put out a Call for Everything for Arse Electronica conference (Best conference name EVER). I now liberally quote from the page:
According to a study by Simon Smith, more than 800 items were registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office as sex toys between 1840 and 1997. Among them was a condom with a built-in computer chip that can play music. Progress?
From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porno, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. No one can predict what the future will bring, but history indicates that sex will continue to play an essential role in technological development.
The conference is expected to happen sometime in 2007 or 2008, probably somewhere on the west coast of the US.
Post this on your blogs. Post this on your friends blogs that you stole the password from their computer for while they were drunk and passed out. Get people involved. It's been a long time since I've been excited about something like this (in fact, I think it was the release of the Je Joue), and I'd love to see this happen.
via Laughing Squid
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July 6, 2006
Life Beckons, Blogs Suffer
It should've really come as no surprise to me that the more shit there is to do in a location, the less time you have to write about it. And yet, I'm about to round up week number 3 in SF, and I still have this nieve belief that I can actually blog about everything while also working, finding a place to live, adjusting to a new city, etc. etc. etc.
So, instead of one of my usual witty, awesome posts, you get pictures for the moment.
First off, 2 weeks ago I got to go to SF Pride. The flickr set is a Baskin Robbins of Gay. 31 flavors and then some.
Of course, for all of you RSSing bastards who can't remember what clicking through is like anymore, I must link to my favorite picture from the set and easily favorite float from the parade:
Man, The Barbary Coast Cloggers rocked my ass. The picture turned out perfect, too. It sums up the parade so wonderfully. You can just feel the potential clogging that's about to turn into some hardcore motherfucking KINETIC clogging.
Sidestory: IM exchange to a friend back in Oklahoma:
[me]: Dude, pride was fucking amazing, you shoulda been here.
[him]: Yeah, but, um, I'm not gay.
[me]: DUDE.
[him]: What did I just say?
[him]: I'm not gay.
[him]: So I don't know what clogging is.
[me]: ...
Annnnnnnnyways, for it being cock christmas and all (and yes I realize it's also LT to to go with the GB, but, well, my blog, my preferences, and I was dreaming of a white, sticky christmas in June (Good god, 3 weeks here and I'm already sounding like master of the stalls)), no santa came down my chimney. Suppose it's good there was no lump of coal there either, though.
Wow, that was the most abstractly gross joke I've made in a while.
Anyways^2, let's move on to the 4th of July, i.e. yesterday, day of the Survival Research Labs party, which the lovely Violet Blue invited me and She Who Owns The Hand:
) <--- The Handto.
For those of you that don't read my LJ (and really, how could you not? It's chock full of all of my non-sex writing... So it's actually fairly quiet.), here's the media:
Videos of the V1 Pulse Jet Engine:
Video 1
Video 2 - Definitely Watch This One
Video 3
Videos of the Inchworm:
Video 1
Video 2
Video 3- Watch this one too
Video 4
Video of a bucket of jello being blown up by something explosive, and me getting hit by said jello.
Video
And a bucket undergoing the same treatment:
Video
And for those of you that can't see videos, pictures are up on Flickr:
SRL Party Flickr Set
More info/pictures/videos over on Violet Blue's Page:
SRL Home Movies
SRL 4th work + party pics
and Laughing Squid:
4th of July Party at The SRL Shop
So that's the end of my adventures so far, though Friday I leave for the Women in Games Conference in bright (pffft), sunny (heeee) Middlesbrough, UK. I'll be presenting a talk on Sex in Games there, because even after 5 conferences, people still think I know something about this stuff. I'm looking forward to it, from the looks of the schedule, there's gonna be some VERY interesting talks (Gender Differences in Talking to Teddybears! Yeah, I'll so be writing that one up)... And hey, I'll get to watch the World Cup Finals in a country that cares.
Maybe this will finally be the mythical conference I liveblog, too.
Maybe.
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