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Tech NewsGadgetsLora DiCarlo Brings Hot Vibes to CES—As In They Are Warm to the Touch
A lot has changed for Lora DiCarlo since CES 2019, when the Consumer Technology Association stripped its innovative Osé sex toy of a well-deserved CES Innovation Award. Not only does CES fuck now, Lora DiCarlo is also announcing a new product line for the all-virtual CES 2021. This year, Lora DiCarlo is releasing three new … Continued
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Tech NewsCulturePeople Are Apparently Jerking Off With Their Phones During the Pandemic
People are doing things with their phones that I didn’t even know you could do with phones. I mean, I get it: In these crazy coronavirus times, people need to get creative to meet their sexual needs. I totally support having a healthy sex life and masturbation. But… with your phone? To be completely honest … Continued
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Tech NewsSex Tech Was at CES, But CES Sure Seemed Nervous
I was pretty tired by the time I rolled up to Crave’s CES booth at the Sands Expo. It was a cute booth. There was a 1961 Airstream trailer set up with neon lights that invited you to “Own Your Pleasure.” Above was an Instagram-worthy sign detailing Crave’s Pleasure Manifesto, full of sex-positive aphorisms about … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsEven Sex Toy Makers Think Watchmen‘s Big Blue Dildo Is ‘Extreme’
In the third episode of HBO’s Watchmen series, Laurie Blake aka Silk Spectre pulls out a gigantic electric blue dildo. It’s an obvious sight gag—her ex is a blue man who can control his size, right down to the most intimate level. That said, it does raise some questions. Like, how would the “Electromagnetic Lithium … Continued
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Tech NewsHow Sex Toy Makers Pick Vibrator Colors
Scoring a color’s sexiness calls for a sketchy rubric at best: Although someone appointed it the color of romance and passion, red is also the color of blood and chaos (see: panic buttons, fire trucks). Sleek, sophisticated black does double duty as the uniform of death. Purple can communicate richness, royalty, sensuality, what have you; … Continued
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Tech NewsRedditors Say Sex Toy App Was Secretly Recording Them
Few things sow distrust faster than speculation that apps and internet-connected devices are surveilling their own users in secret. Facebook mining your browsing habits to serve ads is one thing. But what if you found out your sex toy was taping you? That’s what Redditors on the community r/sex claimed they discovered yesterday, when a … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & SecurityIf Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime?
On a recent trip to Berlin, Alex Lomas’ acquaintance posed him a challenge: Can you find a Bluetooth-enabled butt plug in the wild, and can you turn it on without its owner’s help? Lomas, a penetration tester with the British cybersecurity firm Pen Test Partners, pulled out his phone, consulted the detection app LightBlue, and … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsHands On With the Vibrator That Wants to Be the Smartest Sex Toy in the World
Liz Klinger admits that the Lioness isn’t the world’s greatest vibrator. It won’t work perfectly for every person who uses it. “No vibrator is for everybody. You’d have to have, like, a Play-Doh thing that has a motor in it,” she told me in a crowded coffee house at lunch hour. On August 15th the … Continued
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ReviewsOther GadgetsThis Super Pretty Vibrator Is Basically a Stress Ball for My Vagina
Staring at this squishy little vibrator, that looks more like something you’d find on the beach than in a sex store, two thoughts went through my mind. The first was that I now understood whatthe seashells in Demolition Man were for. The second thought was perhaps more relevant to Tenga’s $120 Iroha Kushi: It is … Continued
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Smart Sex Toy Maker Sued for Sneakily Collecting ‘Intimate’ Data
When it comes to gadgets, few bonds are more sacred than the one shared by a sex toy and its user. Sadly, one Illinois woman claims her smartphone-connected vibrator betrayed that love, sending (extremely) personal data to Canadian dildo maker Standard Innovation. In August, hackers at the Def Con security conference revealed that Standard Innovation’s … Continued
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Woman Does Lord’s Work, Makes Smart Vibrator
The vagina and clitoris are mysterious things. No, seriously they are. Scientists make big bucks studying the penis, but the vagina and clitoris often languish in official research circles. They languish in the bedroom too. Lesbians (intimately familiar with the pootenanny) experience significantly more orgasms then straight or bisexual woman. If woman aren’t getting down … Continued
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io9Books & ComicsThrob’s Holiday Gift Guide for the Sexily Inquisitive
Know someone who enjoys the stimulation of a good book? What about someone who enjoys stimulation of another sort? This holiday season, Throb has got some great gift ideas to show your special someone that you appreciate both their mind and their body. The Reason for Flowers by Stephen Buchmann Flowers have a ton of … Continued
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LELO LILY 2: A Powerful Vibrator That Also Claims To Be An Aphrodisiac
Swedish adult toy designer LELO has released a $139.00 juiced-up update to the LILY, its decade-old clitoral vibrator. The new version, called LILY 2, is still small, smooth, and comma-shaped, but now sports a more powerful motor and a surface that’s infused with a purportedly aphrodisiacal fragrance. There are three versions of the vibe, color-coded … Continued
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Vibrator Company to Offer “Donald Discount” During Debate Tonight
Whether you love the Donald, hate him, or merely find him perplexing, he’s certainly a whiz at stimulating debate. Now he’s inspired vibrator-makers Crave to offer a 50% discount on all their designs, but ONLY while today’s primary debate is raging. Use the code TrumpTrump at checkout to turn their negative feelings about the candidate … Continued
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Vibrators Don’t Have to Look Like Giant Cocks Anymore
A vibrator’s basic job is really quite simple, so long as you’re using it as a sex toy instead of unclenching a charley horse or working out some lower back pain. Vibrators are supposed to rapidly stimulate sexually sensitive sensory neurons. That’s it. They could look like anything. But until recently, they often looked like … Continued
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Minna Limon, A Fucking Adorable — And Versatile — Vibrator
If Crave’s Flex is the Linux of vibrators, with its long menu of settings and programmable waveforms, Minna Life’s Limon is more like a slimmed down iPhone app. It lets you change just one variable – the strength of the buzz – with an equally simple and intuitive method: how hard you squeeze. It’s the … Continued
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Tech NewsYour Sex Life Is an Engineering Project
Everything is hackable — you can jailbreak your phone to get better apps, but you can also mod your own eyeballs to have night vision. Where do we go from there? Your libido, of course. Programmable vibrators are the new frontier in customizable gadgets, and we got a taste of what they’re like. Two very … Continued
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Crave Vesper: A Stealth Vibrator That’s Also a Necklace
Let’s face it. There are two reasons you’d want to use a vibrator: because you are a gadget-lover who can’t imagine anything, including sex, without a little technology involved; or because you just want to have an orgasm, and fast. But with the Crave Vesper, there is a third possibility. Fancy San Francisco vibrator maker … Continued
