May 13, 2008
Comics Crosspost Time
Ok, I don't usually just post comics, but this will most definitely become an oft-used phrase on slashdong...
via Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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July 31, 2007
It's Funny Because It's Named Funny With A Funny Author Name
And it says "butt".
"A compound sensor for biomechanical analyses of buttock soft tissue in vivo" by Dr. Wang
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June 28, 2007
How to be a Cyber-Lovah
So. Fucking. Awesome. And they even sell Mavis Motherfucking Beacon on their website.
This was in Entertainment Weekly months ago. How is it I always miss the obvious stuff?
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June 27, 2007
Call for Papers - INTIMACY: Across Visceral and Digital Performance
Well, I'm off doing other stuff right now so this place is a little quiet, but here's something interesting:
OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS & PERFORMANCES
“How are bodies represented through technology? How is desire constructed through representation? What is the relationship of the body to self-awareness?” [Stone, Allucquère Rosanne The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age Cambridge, Mass. & London: MIT Press, 1995, p. 17]
INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance is a three-day (December 7-9) interdisciplinary programme of events made to illicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between makers, participants and witnesses of works that explicitly address proximity and hybridity in performance. It will feature workshops, seminars, performances, posters, and a 1-day symposium. INTIMACY will employ digital and live art practices as agents, aiming to further practical exploration of and vibrant discourse into notions of intimacy in contemporary performance. It is framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers.
INTIMACY will provide a platform for the discussion of live art/performance practices concerned with displaying intuitive, intimate and visceral relationships between artist and other. It will explore performance practices that engage in intimate encounters, raising issues around bodies of data and flesh; presence as aura and representation; desire as embodied condition and disembodied fantasy; the human and posthuman self. Confirmed contributors include: Johannes Birringer, Kira O'Reilly, Tracey Warr, Janis Jefferies, Amelia Jones, Dominic Johnson, Kelli Dipple, Paul Sermon.
SPACETIME
INTIMACY will take place on the 7th, 8th and 9th December in and around Goldsmiths University of London, LABAN and The Albany (South London).
CO-DIRECTORS: Rachel Zerihan and Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]
BOARD
Prof. Johannes Birringer, Chair in Drama and Performance Technologies, School of Arts,Brunel University of West London; Artistic Director of AlienNation Co.
Hazel Gardiner, Senior Projects Officer, AHRC ICT Methods Network; Researcher.
Dr. Adrian Heathfield, Principal Research Fellow (Performance and Live Arts), School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University; Writer; Curator.
Prof. Janis Jefferies, Artistic Director, Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles; Artist; Writer; Curator.
Gerald Lidstone, Head of Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London.
PROPOSALS
All participants will be selected on an open submissions basis.
Proposals will be peer reviewed by the INTIMACY Board and Advisory Panel. Proposals must not exceed the word limit specified. You may provide additional info such as links to digital material including online video, photos and websites. Further supporting documentation such as hard copies and discs are welcome; if you want these returned please enclose a SAE. We are accepting proposals for:
Paper presentations or Performance Lectures
Poster presentations
Live performances -physical and/or digital
Proposals should be concerned with the relationship between visceral and digital environments/methodologies being explored in contemporary performance practice. Specifically, topics of interest include but are not limited to:
The politics of intimacy in contemporary performance
Risk in relation to intimacy in contemporary performance
Pornography/erotics and performed intimacy
(Dis)embodiment, (tele)presence and intimate performance encounters
Technologies as affective instigators of intimacy
Intimate aesthetics in contemporary performance
Interfaces of performed desire
Accepted proposals will be published on our website. Further publishing possibilities are being explored.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submit by email to Maria X at and Rachel Zerihan intimacyrachelz[at]yahoo.co.uk writing INTIMACY SUBMISSION in the subject line. Send hard copies to INTIMACY c/o 22 Dutton Street, London, SE10 8TB.
Performances: Submit 1) 500-word statement detailing your project; 2) 200-word CV; 3) Tech Drive; 4) Any other supporting material as described above. Please note that only limited technical support can be provided.
Papers/ Performance Lectures: Submit 1) 500-word abstract. This contribution would form a 15 minute paper to be presented at the Symposium on Sunday 9th December; 2) 200-word CV; 3) Any other supporting material as described above.
Posters: Submit 1) 300-word abstract /summary; 2) 200-word CV; 3) Any other supporting material as described above.
DEADLINE
Deadline for submissions: 19 August 2007
Notification of acceptance: early October 2007
ADVISORY PANEL (confirmed to date)
Daisy Abbot, AHDS Performing Arts Glasgow
Gavin Barlow, CEO The Albany
Alice Bayliss, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
Brian Brady, Head of Programming, LABAN
Anna Furse, Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London; Director
Marc Garrett, Artist, Co-director Furtherfield
Gabriella Giannachi, Co-director Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter
Joe Kelleher, School of Arts, Roehampton University
Roberta Mock, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth
Molly Mullen, Re-Write Co-ordinator
Chris Salter, Artist; Researcher Hexagram; Department of Design and Computational Arts, Concordia University (Canada)
Jennifer Sheridan, Director BigDog Interactive
Igor Stromajer, Artist (Slovenia)
Bojana Kunst, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Tony Thatcher, Choreographer; Programme Leader LABAN
Helen Varley-Jamieson, Performer (New Zealand)
INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance is supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network, Goldsmiths Graduate School, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths Drama Department and LABAN.
For more information on INTIMACY please visit http://www.cybertheater.org
If you have further queries, please contact intimacyrachelz[at]yahoo.co.uk or drp01mc[at]gold.ac.uk
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June 6, 2007
RoboGames 2007 - OMG BOTZ EVERYWEARZ
You know, you'd figure that once I moved out here to the Bay, I'd have all sorts of new and interesting projects getting done with the massive amounts of resources available to me now. Unfortunately, that's diverted by the severe lack of time due to all the awesome shit that happens here. Awesome shit like...
3 days. 70+ events. Hundreds of bots. Thousands of people.
Holy. Fucking. Fuck. I love living here.
Dorkbot Swap Meet happening there:
This is the swap part:
Bring your old electronics, gadgets, and other junk that you would like to swap. Swap it with someone else who has also brought *their* old electronic junk to swap.
Drive in with a truck full of clean electronics crap, come away with a truck and a half full of cool stuff. Emerge with a bright new understanding of this thing called "Community". This event is free with admission to RoboGames, but if you just want to drop stuff off, we'll take it.
This is the Play Day part:
If you were at MakerFaire, you will have noticed that the superlative Michael Shiloh and his friend Wayne put together a utopia of tools, bits of equipment, glue and other stuff so you, the participant, could cobble together all sort of exciting contraptions. This is what we are doing at RoboGames!
Get rid of that roomba you cannibalized for parts, those cables that have been taking up space under your desk, that printer that choked on its own vomit and died, and contribute it to RoboGames Play Day! You will delight countless children and their very happy parents who may now drink delicious beer in peace while Junior is roughing up that old laptop.
We are accepting donation for Swap Meet and Play Day space at these times: Wednesday, June 13, 9am-9pm
Thursday, June 14th 9am-9pm
Friday June 15th 9am-Noon
If you are coming to RoboGames anyway and would like to bring stuff with you to swap, arrangements can be made.
The Dorkbot Swap Meet takes place June 15th, 16th and 17th, 12 Noon-6pm Friday, 12 Noon-10 pm Saturday and Sunday.
So, obviously, I'll be at the event (will have many useless interesting things to shove on unsuspecting people at the swap meet!), and you should be too! Go buy your tickets now.
Or, if you want to get up close and personal, volunteer! Just use the contact page of the robogames site to get ahold of someone and demand a t-shirt and entrance in exchange for your time! Require them to let you help them!
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April 13, 2007
Latex for Blogger!
For those of you that are returning rather disappointed after hitting that link, you are probably pissed that you aren't getting to see some hot blogger in latex.
For those of you that:
- Took the time to read the whole post
- or
- Know exactly what I'm going to be talking about when I post about anything having to do with Latex (even though I didn't properly capitalize it just because it's a trap)
You may now laugh at the first group of people. For they are to be mocked.
via Geomblog
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April 10, 2007
Let me see your papers!
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April 1, 2007
YouTubeZoo: Porn For Your Pets
Because pandas need porn too.
Remember when April Fools Jokes weren't also viable business models?
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March 31, 2007
Yuri's Night w/ Plaid - April 13, NASA Ames, Palo Alto, CA
So yeah, this has nothing to do with sex tech, but I figure there's a good portion of the readers of this blog that will want to know about this if they don't already.
Yuri's Night
In the MOTHERFUCKING BLIMP HANGAR AT NASA AMES
Performing:
Plaid (2 HOUR MOTHERFUCKING LIVE SET)
Telefon Tel Aviv
Bluetech
Sutekh
Mr. Projectile
And others...
Live science demos and interactive exhibits.
Did I mention 2 HOUR SET BY PLAID!?
Tickets are $25 (Plus ridiculous ticket site fees). If you live anywhere near the Bay, or hell, anywhere PERIOD and you miss this, you suck. A lot.
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March 30, 2007
Czech Geeks in Love
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March 28, 2007
Chemistry Not Sexy Enough?
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This post doesn't even require text.
via Improbable Research Blog - One of my favorite pages on the net
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March 24, 2007
USB Nuts
Remember the 'MP3 Titties' article?
Now there's talk of USB Nuts!
via the front page of youtube. Yay for random advertising!
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March 1, 2007
Sultry Services
Sultry Services: Adult Copywriting Services
You know, there's probably a million of these, but not all of them link to me, and I hadn't really thought about this as a business model before, so they get the luxury of being an offtopic post on a sex tech blog. Sultry Services does Adult Website Copywriting.
No, not copyrighting. Copywriting.
As in, they write the ads for adult websites. Now, I'm sure anyone reading this will have the same thought as I did the first time I saw this... "WTF, I could totally do that shit!". Unfortunately, I then realized that I would probably end up sounding like Cheech's ever so famous monologue from Dusk 'til Dawn. Over, and over, and over. I can only think of so many words for pussy/cock/otherwise before I either start:
- repeating myself
- getting really esoteric and weird
- getting really, really stupid
So, to the adult copywriters of the world, my hat is off to you, for writing all those words that I don't even notice because they're situated above, below, and around porn.
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February 26, 2007
Satan's SexEd
So, as most of you may know, I just moved from Oklahoma to the Bay Area. My move has changed me in many ways, for once I was but a poor lost redneck who thought even using the word sex was bad, and now I'm part of a polyamorous multi-way relationship of sex-positive... well, I'm not sure of all of their genders or how to refer to them because they all like different pronouns.
Ok, all joking aside, I'm not particularly interested in either of the extremes I just mentioned, and I certainly have my problems with both. I'm happy with how things work for me (usually: in pieces on my workbench), and that's all that matters. However, I never really expected to be exposed to the amount of sex education work that I have been since starting this site, and when I see things like this, it just bolsters my respect for sex educators more, because god damn, this is quite the fight we've got on our hands.
Satan's SexEd. Because sex is wrong and everything about sex is bad and why, oh why do you hate reproducing so much when you're trying to convert people and reproducing is the quickest way to grow your army?
Choice Quotes:
- "Sex is STICKY"
- "great and godly sex starts in the head, before it gets between the legs"
- "our sexuality is satan's easiest door to shame"
Man, I'm so happy I lost all my shame years ago. Everyone needs to wake a buttplug on stage.
So yeah, this is great to laugh at and all, but please, donate to your local sex education non-profit today (for those of us around the bay area, SFSI is a great place to start). It's gonna take a lot of time and a lot of money to undo shit like this.
via Logan. Coweta reprazent.
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February 6, 2007
Seksu Roba - Inersexual Overdrive
Robots, 70's Sci Fi, B-movies, nudity, and beepy shit.
All aboard for AWESOME.
Via Retro Futurism
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September 27, 2006
qDot Goes to Folsom
Do I really need to say anything else?
Oh, well, one thing:
Daddy Howard gives the best spankings ever.
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Those headphones are totally doing it.
Those headphones are totally doing it.
So sometimes you're just standing there in an overpriced kitchenware store buying fixing instruments for the yummy tea you just bought and all of the sudden you hear some Japanese Techno Lounge and you're getting your groove on like the god damn yuppie you are and you're totally like "OMG I HAVE THAT CD" and then you go home and you try to look up a video of it on YouTube so you can tell all your friends how you liked the Katamari Damacy soundtrack before it was "cool" and all you can find is HEADPHONES HAVING SEX.
Internets: 1 qDot: 0
I really feel like nature is telling me to get around to making that OhMiBod post now.
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September 22, 2006
Folsom Street Fair (and LoveFest) this weekend!
As you can see from the picture I hastily yanked from their website because I'm hitting new heights of lazy these days...
It's Folsom time! Now that I'm finally in the city I plan on heading to this, so if any of you out there are also planning on heading out, throw an email at our tips address (tips at slashdong dot org), and you might be able to get that once in a lifetime meeting with your teledildonics god, me!
Note: I'll also be around LoveFest the day before, so if you're planning on packing your weekend full of sin like I am and going to both (or just LoveFest), feel free to email me to, or just look for me around any of the tents where there's decent tech house playing.
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July 31, 2006
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 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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June 8, 2006
The Joystick
I bet you thought this might be mildly sex or video games related!
HAH.
Well, that's sorta true. I mean, it's kinda sophomorically sex humor related. The Joystick, from Applegate Farms, is, according to The Reverend Scott Motherfucking Crawford, The Ride, "the best damn meat snack I’ve had in recent memory". And if there's anyone that knows meat sticks, it's him. I've also been alerted to the fact that their BACON is so good that it may only be referred to in capital letters. Yes, it's BACON, and BACON is a very dear subject to us here at Slashdong.
While you're at it, why not slam down a can of Gay Fuel?
Apparently the insanity of moving makes me make stupid posts. Go figure.
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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 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 2, 2006
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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April 3, 2006
72 Degrees
Even though we try to stay mainly a sex toy/sex tech blog, there's just some little designy part of me that likes posting ergonomics and furniture design stuff every so often. Maybe I have some deep seated need to be the dirty version of Funfurde or something.
So, with that in mind, I present 72 Degrees, or "The table that stores your porn". Closed with a lock that can only be opened by a ring, the table has a secret compartment made to fit a teenager's porn stash perfectly, away from the moral compasses of snooping parents.
Now, not only is the basic idea cool in the "YOU CAN PUT YOUR WEED IN THERE" sorta way, but the name itself is just absolutely fucking brilliant. For those of you too lazy to open the link, 72 degrees is apparently the average angle of a healthy erection. It's also the angle that the locked portion of the table opens to.
I love designers with senses of humor.
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February 9, 2006
Math Porn
It's math!
It's porn!
It's MATH PORN!
All the pictures on the side are mathematically generated. Now, technically, you could most likely come up with an equation to represent ANY image if you tried hard enough. But these, they're... more mathy. Or something.
via Sexblo.gs
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Vibrating Headphones? No, really. Why?
Vibrating Headphones? No, really. Why?
The headphones. They vibrate.
No, really. It's something you put on your head, and it vibrates. That's not fucking headache inducing or anything.
Now, we feel obligated to cover weird things that vibrate. This is definitely something weird that vibrates. Aerowolf even came up with the idea that you could "Put them on and feel like you're fucking on the dancefloor".
Me, though, not so much. I really cannot see these being comfortable in any way. However, I suppose you could put them on your crotch and turn something relatively bassy on, or do like we always say, hop on the back of a Warthog in Halo and start firin'.
God, we're starting to sound like Homemade Sex Toys around here. I really need to finish the sexbox article. Soon.
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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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November 22, 2005
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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September 23, 2005
Happy Birthday Violet Blue!
Here's wishing a happy (slightly late, oops :) ) birthday to Violet Blue, our favorite sex writer/roboticist/general all around cool girl.
And even more, here's to the new tradition of naked birthday pictures. It's the present that everyone looks forward to opening! :)
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August 25, 2005
Sex Documentary looking for female participants
Sex Documentary looking for female participants
So I guess /8===> tends to cater to people with "different sexual choices" since I keep getting emails for these things. Ah well, who am I to deny anyone their 15 minutes of fame.
Documentary TV production company seeks women of all sexual
orientations [queer/straight, single/in relationship(s)] to be
featured in the second season of a program on The Documentary
Channel. The show explores the world of people's sexual adventures
and we would like to talk to women who have interesting sexual lives
outside of the "norm" who would like to share their stories. If you
are interested, please e-mail and we can discuss further. Thanks!
rachel(at)8storey(dawt)com
Disclaimer: You make a fool of yourself on this show, don't blame me. Just tell me when it's on so I can laugh watch.
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July 17, 2005
Geek Calendars Continued: SRL Calendar
Geek Calendars Continued: SRL Nude Calendar
So remember a couple of posts back when I was ranting about the lack of geek calendars that I liked?
Well, Survival Research Labs put out a nude calendar for the 2003-2004 year as a tribute to Tim North (link to archive.org version of his site, so might be a little slow), an amazing sound artist who sadly passed away in 2003. It's really cool to see what a group of people will do for a friend they cared about.
I'm not sure if SRL is still selling the calendars, but if they are, you can buy one and be ready when the same day layout happens in 2014.
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July 12, 2005
Calender Madness
Geek Girl Calendar and UNIX Calendar, false advertising abounds
Every proper sex toy mechanic has to have some sort of calendar up on their wall... Too bad you're either going to have to really, really, REALLY use your imagination, or else just settle for a big ol' bowl of suck (and if you're into guys, well, there's pictures of Linus, Bjarne, and others all over the net, make your own damn calendar).
Starting with the bad first, The Girls Of Geekdom. Oh come the fuck on people, I mean, really, we've been here before, except Geek Fantasies was a *JOKE*. They're actually expecting you to shell out $15 for a god damn calendar where the "Computer Geek Girl" BRAGS ABOUT CODING HTFUCKINGML. If I'm shelling out cash, I was to know the girl in that picture has made one of the posts on Lambda The Ultimate that I can barely understand because I forgot all of my language theory right after college (and subsequently got a job where I have to do language design. Go me.). I want my Horror Geek to be masturbating to Cannible Holocaust. I want my Robotics Geek Girl to... Oh wait. They didn't have one. Personal fantasy getting in the way there...
Anyways, if you're gonna claim to be geek, then FUCKING BRING IT. Don't sully the term with this wimpy ass shit.
Then there's this UNIX Girls Calendar. At least there's some nakedness this time, but how am I sure that car is running a real flavor of UNIX, and not just like, Ubuntu or some shit? Can someone write the uname response on one of the girls in lipstick or something? It'd just make me feel a little better about the whole thing.
For everyone that's looking for the Hot Men of Cumputing (*giggle*) Calendar, well, I'm sure there will be a GNU Version Calendar released someday. Then all your Stallmen in Speedo needs will be fulfilled.
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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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June 27, 2005
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 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 8, 2005
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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May 27, 2005
Linux Sex. *sigh*
Name a site Slashdong, and you become legally bound to post about bad linux sex jokes. Bad linux sex jokes taken way way way too far.
Yes, it's Tux(es). Yes, they're having sex.
Talk about opening your source. *rimshot*
(*sigh* I'm sorry, I really am. We don't have a choice. We promise never to show Stallman naked though.)
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May 16, 2005
Cutting out the middle man
New Playstation 3 controller renders SeXBox idea obsolete
The Playstation 3 is currently being annouced at E3. It looks like their controller designers might have the same ideas we do about... extracirricular controller usage, as it were. However, they seem to have completely cut out the need for external jacks. Sleak and optimized, yup.
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March 5, 2005
Robosapien Abuse
 | Graphic Picture of Robosapien Abuse. Viewer Discretion Advised.
Slashdong.org has obtained pictures of a Robosapien being abused for the gain of an internet website article. Robosapien abuse like this happens around the world every day, with few advocates taking up the cause to defend these poor, defenseless bots. Please, won't someone think of the Robosapiens? In other news: SeXBox Version 2 coming in the next couple of days |
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March 3, 2005
Juice: Electricity in the Bedroom
 | Juice: Electricity for Pleasure and Pain
Thanks to Aerowolf for the link and book recommendation Here at Slashdong, we really arn't looking to hook electrodes directly into your crotch. Some people are into that, and that's cool. We respect electricity, however, we don't wanna fuck it. Even so, it's always nice to know the limits you can put yourself to, just so you know what's safe and what's stupid when you decide to start sex toy engineering projects of your own. Learning about electricity is an absolute must if you're going to try any of our projects. Now, there's no replacement for a good physics text book. Surprisingly though, very few physics text books talk about electricity in terms of how they affect human body parts with lots of nerve bundles that will most likely be very wet. So, we recommend Juice in place of that. For those of you that are too cheap and just want shit for free, we also plan on doing a few electronics, soldering, and "This is how sex toys work" tutorials in the near future. Still, $13 is a small price to pay so that we can blame someone else for you frying your thighs. |
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February 25, 2005
Pretty pretty banners!
Ok, I was feeling a little artistic tonight and made a banner and a button.
Here's a standard 468x60 banner.
If you're looking for something a little smaller and less intrusive, I recommend our mini model.
Please email me if you decide to use one of the banners, and I'll try to reciprocate in one way or another. :)
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February 24, 2005
HOUSTON, WE ARE ON THE FUCKING MOON
Wow. Lots of hits. So many hits. Wow, the hits.
Hooking sex toys to video games is apparently a recipe for massive linkage.
Thanks to
Warren Ellis (Wow, I totally can't believe I'm in his blog =D )
GameGirlAdvance (Esp for being the first people to do this project ;) )
Szanalmas.hu If someone can read Hungarian and translate the comments on the post about us for me, that'd be great. :)
Fleshbot
Gizmodo
Kotaku
SensibleErection
My Big Black Cock
Millions of LJs...
And all of the other blogs that it'd take me the next 8 hours to dig through my referers to find.
For those on LiveJournal that want to keep up with THE DONG, the guys at MegaZone were nice enough to set up a feed. The url is http://www.livejournal.com/users/slashdong/.
If anyone has any interesting projects along the lines of sex and technology, please keep me updated, as, well, that's what this blog is about anyways. I'll also be happy to provide hosting to people with projects. :)
Now, off to make the PS2 and Gamecube controlled toys! :)
Update: People to add to the thanks list:
BoingBoing (And I didn't even have to Creative Commons it! xD)
Gorilla Mask
Coolios
LinkSwarm
Nearing 50k uniques! Not exactly huge in the big league blogs, but hell, I'm happy. :)
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February 19, 2005
FUCK! Hide the minors! Get rid of the coke! The cops are here!
I was wondering how long it'd take 'til we showed up in a /. thread.
/., meet /8=====>
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January 26, 2005
Ways to get fired from your job at a robotics lab, #875
Wear this shirt:
For extra effect, don't laugh or smile when people ask about it, just readjust your pants awkwardly.
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January 23, 2005
Girls Gone Mild
So this isn't exactly a post on technology, but it still involves sex. Sex and disappointment.
Around 8pm last night, a whole bunch of friends messaged me at once, all of them with great intensity and lots of caps. All saying the same thing.
"D00D OMG GIRLS GONE WILD IS IN TOWN!!!!111ONEONEONEELEVEN"
Now, I'm not really into the whole Girls Gone Wild thing. I mean, I do enjoy me some porn and all, and GGW makes more lesbians than the sum of all straight men who've ever played the Sims, so I can definitely side with their endeavor. However, GGW has just never done much for me. I'm just not interested in that type of dumb bimbo.
Besides, I've got my own woman at home. She's wild enough.
However, if there is gonna be *anyone* naked, in public (and not at a strip club), within a mile of where I live, and I can be there, you can fucking bet I'm going.
So, I head out, and the second I get there, I can tell this is going to suck. Mainly because the bar they showed up at was a glass front bar, on a busy street, in a town in Oklahoma. Ain't no titties gonna be happenin' without a MAJOR lawsuit to follow. The GGW bus, which was very large, and very, very opaque, was sitting in front of the bar, which made it obvious (to only me apparently) what was going to happen. My friends were much more optimistic than I was, so I stuck around just to people watch.
$5 cover charge at the door, and I walk into a sausage party that would've made Pepperidge Farms proud. It might as well have been a gay club, except without the cute guys, good music, or decent drinks. Every guy in the place had a look of a child before Santa comes. Oh, the souls that would be crushed tonight when they all found out what was going to happen. At this point, I started in on my "There's SO not going to be any titties" mantra, which I'm sure almost got me punched a few times, but I'll sacrifice physical pain for the joy of being right.
We get a drink, and then proceed to stand. And stand. And stand. During the HOUR AND A FUCKING HALF of standing, I watched videos on the TVs and learned a few things:
- New Edition is back together! Except, they're totally not the New Edition that I had the cassette of in the late 80's. Or maybe they are, but they're not.
- Apparently I need to check out a band called Client. They seemed neat.
- Georgie Pordgie is apparently the whole of the Venga Boys all concentrated into ONE MAN. I have no idea what government lab developed this weapon, or how it got out into the world, but this needs to be stopped. NOW.
- Hey, there's a video for Depeche Mode's Enjoy The Silence! Oh, wait... It's a remix... Oh wait... WTF... Is that Lincoln Park backing them up? What is this shit? DAVE, DON'T DO THIS TO ME!
- You are required by law to have at least one scene where you throw handfuls of money into the air in Hiphop and R&B videos
It was a very, very slow evening. Girls threw shirts. Guys caught them. Other than that, everyone drank, and waited, and waited, and waited.
Finally, guys in GGW shirts came in. Everyone (but me; I was still going "Dude, I know what's gonna happen", and getting evil looks) perked up. SOMETHING was going to happen, they all knew it. Poor bastards.
The GGW guys spread through the crowd, finding pairs of girls. The girls started giggling. Finally, I saw a guy convince a pair of girls into something. They walked with him, at which point I said "They're going to the bus now, and the second they get into the bus, I'm leaving.". Sure enough, they made a slow progress through the club, with lots of screams and shouts from the guys around the bar. A stampede toward the door that would've made the Haaj look tame began. The girls walked out the door, and guys pressed their faces against the bar windows. I'm surprised thing damn things didn't break.
And then, they got on the bus. The opaque, quiet, can't get near it because there's a reentry fee, bus.
It looked like every guy in the place had just had their puppy killed. I left, and went home to have some pizza. Yummy, yummy pizza.
Yup, GGW attracted a bunch of guys there so they could sit 10 feet from hot, lesbian action that they would just have to imagine, or else pay another $20 for when the DVD comes out. I believe there's actually some laws banning filming of certain acts in Oklahoma also (I can't back this up), so it might've just been titty flashing, which is all sorts of yawn.
Sure, they got my $5 too, but I was an ass about it the whole night, so I felt I was redeemed.
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Thanks!
Just wanted to say a quick thank you to the guys over a Malebots for posting about us on their message board! Hope everyone finds the site interesting and useful, even though it is a little sparse right now. :)
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