IRC #slashdong - Now on Freenode
IRC #slashdong - Now on Freenode
I’ve been on IRC for far, far too long. Most of the time these days I can be found hanging around various places on Freenode (#emacs, #acemonstertoys, etc…). However, I just realized, hey! Slashdong is about free stuff! Why not start a channel?
So I did.
There’s now a #slashdong on Freenode.
If you’re not currently using IRC, you may want to try the Quassel Client for all platforms or Colloquy for OS X, though yes, mIRC still exists, too. Of course, none of those will work with my deldo extensions for ERC
Come, enjoy text based chat with me! Or at least make me stop feeling so utterly alone.
Deldo - The Sex Toy and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs
Deldo - The Sex Toy and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs
If it weren’t for sex robots, I’d never get laid, ‘cause, well, of this video right here.
Yup. Remember a few years ago when we had a finger interface to the trancevibe? I decided to kick that up a notch and take the environment I love to new, questionable heights.
Deldo is a vibrator control package for emacs. Currently, it just works with Trancevibrator compatible toys, but it’d be very easy to move this to other toys.
With Deldo, you can trigger vibration on anything that can have a hook in emacs, which is just about everything. Spelling corrections, compilation errors, recieving email, whatever it is, it can vibrate or shock or thrust or whatever now.
The source is available on my github account, http://github.com/qdot/deldo
Erotic HCI at NordiCHI 2010
Erotic HCI Workshop at NordiCHI 2010 Call For Papers
Who wants to go to Iceland and talk about sex with computers? I do! I do!
Much like the Sexual Interactions Workshop at SIGCHI 2006, the Erotic HCI Workshop at NordiCHI 2010 will be a day long workshop on sex and human/computer interaction. The call for papers is currently up, and papers are due by August 1. Topics include:
- New designs and interfaces
- Original user research and empirical studies
- Critical essays that explore relations between cultural theory and human-computer sexual interaction
- Theories, models, and frameworks for the design and evaluation of systems to support erotic life
- Case studies
- Inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary research on erotic life and HCI
The 2006 workshop was awesome, and I expect this one to be just as good!
A bunch of links - 2010-05-10 Edition
I never really wanted to get to the point on this site where I just reposted a bunch of links. However, I now find myself in the situation where I have a bunch of links, most of which are gleened from watching the word ‘teledildonics’ on twitter, and none of which I feel like writing a full post about. So, here we are.
Emotion Jackets
Yup, it’s that time again. Asian universities were making hug jackets years ago, and now it’s starting to show up again.
The Philips Emotion Jacket, from the team that brought you the now spun off amBX system (and remember, there’s always libambx for your cross-platform, use it because it validates my hobbies needs!) has now made a haptic jacket so you can feel punches.
Nothing new, but the amount of actuators is far more than the Third Space Vest that I’ve talked about before but can’t seem to find the posts on. So, if you’re into getting punched, you’re about to get more choice in the technology you use to simulate that punch over long distances.
But of course, not everyone is into getting punched. For these people, who I will from this point forward refer to as ‘wusses’, there’s yet another hug jacket because the idea hasn’t been done to death yet, really. Except this one works in second life, and gives you more than just hugs. Presented at the Augmented Human International Conference last month (why was I not at this?), the iFeel_IM! jacket allows you to apply pressure to it, which then relays itself via the network (in this specific instance, Second Life) to another person. Now, I’ve seen this versions of this done for chickens, by student groups and artists, etc… for years now, but it always seems to come back around and get some fanfare, and a couple of new features. For instance, this one generates heat, and can apparently also simulate “tingling” feelings. I’m not sure I agree with the idea of needing an external warmth generator to feel glad to see someone via an online communications context, as if you know the person or at least persona is there, you’re gonna get that anyways, no extra technology required. It’s why people can still fap to text sex just fine.
And therefore, the surprising quote from the article…
“While he could have added a mechanism for sexual arousal, Tsetserukou decided doing so would ultimately distract from his focus on emotion boosting.”
Well, less competition for me, I guess.
For more on emotional clothing, I once again highly recommend the Talk2MyShirt blog
Scary Sex Toy Fridays
Image pretty much says it all, there. Scary Sex Toy Friday is a fun sex toy review blog that just has scary shit on it. Not usually all that technology related, but there’s a certain art to making things you put in yourself, and a lot of times, it’s a damn hilarious art.
Sex Toy Design
Good Magazine has an interesting article on sex toy design. It’s the usual American “Let’s Dance around JimmyJane as the one saving grace of sex toy design” when companies like Tenga in Japan have been working on interesting designs for years too, but hey, this is a links post, so I’m trying to be subjective.
Stupidity
Ever wondered what the Teledildonics article on wikipedia sounds like when read out loud?
Well, now you can find out.
I really need to learn to say “Teledildonics” the way the reader does.
Best Unboxing Ever
There’s a certain set of us out there that sort of have, um, problems when we get new things. We like to open them. Not just the box, but whatever’s in the box, and whatever’s in that. Unboxings and uncasings are nothing new these days. Sometimes you just want to take things apart and see what makes them tick.
And sometimes, it’s a box with a $7000 sex doll.
And, sometimes, you just take something, something that was already fun, and you make it even more fun. Like scalping your real doll and putting in an Interactive Fleshlight.
And then you take the after care pictures.
I love running this site.
Thanks to deusbot for sending in the modification photos and making my god damn year.
