Would you flirt with an A.I. (artificial intelligence) companion? Would you try out a dirty talking chatbot? I would. Apparently the author of Love and Sex with Robots wants to make people like me happy, because David Levy (in partnership with Paul Andrews of House of Erotica) has launched Erotic Chatbots Ltd. — and they…
My pals over at Lovehoney are at it again: Their fun and always-delightful Design A Sex Toy competition is back. The winner of each category can win $1,500, with the bonus Judges’ Pick award receiving an extra $3,000 (submit here). Then, Lovehoney makes and distributes your toy, and shares all the sales royalties with you.…
Indie sex toy company Orgasmatronics knows that sex toys from the future, sent from a mad scientist’s lab, are the best sex toys. It has a tagline we can all admire: the company’s call for “Less pants, more science” is likely to win many of you over before you even find out what they make.…
In the current resurgent wave of teledildonics, fledgling erotic tech entrepreneurs FriXion are looking for investors. Refreshingly, FriXion is aimed to be configurable to any gender or orientation, and its goal is to come in at relatively affordable for a sci-fi sex toy: they claim it will cost around $200 for consumers. Interestingly, FriXion is…
This is a great announcement: the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for Minna’s vibrator Limon was a total success and the vibrator is on sale now! This may or may not be your thing, but it apparently was exactly the right thing for quite a few very excited funders, who are probably putting their Limons through the…
This article is a must-read, and is one of my longreads picks of the week. Annalee Newitz knocks it out of the park in The Bizarre Evolution of the Word “Cyber” – a big, juicy read that looks at how the term “cyber” went from “cybersex” to “cyberwar” within the past decade. It’s a must-read…
After over a decade of working with indie sex toy companies and sex educators, while warning and advising the public on unsafe sex toys, I’m giving a heavy endorsement to the Dildology project. My unsafe sex toys and products page was one among a few good starts – now some great people are taking this…
There is a great – and technically detailed – post over at scanlime right now called Hacking My Vagina. In it, Bay Area based Beth (M. Elizabeth Scott) hardware hacks a Lelo remote-controlled vibrator to try and make a sex toy that would facilitate a heightened feedback loop between herself and her vaginal orgasms. Basically,…
These URLs have come into my inbox in multiples, and I want to share them with you because this is important. I do need to preload this discussion with the caveat that I am still wrecking shit in Malaysia and have not had time to investigate this issue or do analysis. It will probably be…
A smattering of posts about Japan’s Robot Restaurant featuring sexed-up female robots bots surfaced a few days ago, and since none were comprehensive I waited to post about it until I collected a few image-rich sources. The Shinjuku Robot Restaurant costs 3,000 yen per person to get in, and patrons can be served by human…