Hacking my Vagina

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Post by kogir » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 9:56 PM UTC

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by askothecoder » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:15 PM UTC

This is weird. Or not. I have hard time even making a difference between weird and not weird these days. Either way, carry on.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by jtchang » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:15 PM UTC

Really cool!

Is reverse engineering the wireless protocol easy? I imagine hacking hardware involves a lot more work than software.

I also love how she 3d printed out some plastic cases for her toy. I see cheap 3d printers eventually being so ubiquitous that a quick prototype may be just as easy to hack up as a working software program.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by lobotryas » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:17 PM UTC

Fun article and an excellent hack!

Any takers to found a startup in order to dive in and disrupt the sex toy industry with some cutting edge innovation? Imagine the millions you'd rake in if you re-invent sex.

I'm looking forward to at least one ero-toy applicant in the next round of YC apps.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

#5

Post by zeteo » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by lalc » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

askothecoder wrote: post #2

This is weird. Or not. I have hard time even making a difference between weird and not weird these days. Either way, carry on.

This is just neat. Now, "Hacking my Fleshlight" would be weird.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by guylhem » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:19 PM UTC

The title is misleading. But the idea of haptic sex toys, and the approach of the hack - especially identifying that the remote was the problem- is great.

We will see if haptic sex toys become mainstream. I didn't even know they existed in the first place!

It seems like a real innovation!

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:21 PM UTC

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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by guylhem » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:21 PM UTC

zeteo wrote: post #5

I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.

This is a sexist remark. It all depend on the content of the article.

Did you take time to read the article? It's just great - full of technical details, including the reasoning behind the creation of the hack.

Many times I've seen dumb things in the front page - complex pointless hacks (I remember one about locales and printf which advocated a libc recompile while I suggested a perl oneliner).

This is a genuinely interesting and creative hack.

EDIT: as I mentionned below, "The title is misleading" - it is linkbait. But the content is there.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by askothecoder » Sat, Nov 24, 2012, 10:21 PM UTC

zeteo wrote: post #5

I wonder if an article called "Hacking my Penis" would ever last long the HN front page.

Probably not. Then again the majority of HN's visitors are developers or designers, right? If so, they're job is to be as open-minded as possible, in which case it should last quite long. But probably not.