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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by dematio »

qdot76367 wrote: post #125
Eliezer wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What we need is a Kickstarter for this stuff, or some sort of prize or bounty system. I don't even know how long I've been reading about individuals online trying to design Random Vibrators (changing speeds in an un-learnable pattern to prevent acclimation, obviously not as simple as sending random numbers to the motor) and various individuals claiming to have homebrewed the even more legendary Intelligent Vibrator (…

In terms of kickstarters for adult stuff, there's 2 already. http://offbeatr.com/ http://www.passionateproduce.com/ And companies like lovepalz ( http://lovepalz.com ) and vibease ( http://vibease.com , where the hell ARE you in this thread, Dema! I know it's like stupid AM over in Singapore but get on here and market, damnit :) ) are co-opting the "kickstarter look" even though they aren't running as actual crowdfun…

I agree with Qdot. The common problem with most hardware startup is manufacturing. You need lotz of upfront money. Most VCs don't invest in hardware startup. The only available option is kickstarter. If you notice, even with lotz of money, most of kickstarter projects are delayed. Making prototype and hacking hardware is now easier compare to 10 years ago. But it's still challenging. We do own pre-order site, http://www.vibease.com

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

georgeorwell wrote: post #103

Warning: this is not a politically correct viewpoint, but nevertheless it's my perspective. The actual best thing about this post being in first place on Hacker News is not that it's a woman posting but that she has a Y chromosome and most people don't realize it. It's like her recently-acquired vagina is a new laptop to be hacked. It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify you…

>The real goal of this post is to get a bunch of men to fantasize about "her" and glorify how cool "she" is for being a geeky hacker.

Could you be being any more blatantly transphobic? You're literally just inventing and projecting nonsense.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

jiggy2011 wrote: post #65

In all seriousness, somebody needs to disrupt internet porn again. If you trying and look for it on google all you get is shitty "tube" websites full of autoplaying livejasmin ads and links that go round in circles. The content is terrible too, either staged "reality" BS , stuff designed to shock more than titilate, unwatchable crap made with a smartphone or weird softcore stuff that tries to be "arty" or "feminist".

What exactly have you not ruled out?

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

shirro wrote: post #70
zeteo wrote: post #5

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

Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get. This article deserves to make it to the top for the hackery alone. I doubt if a tube of lube would be as worthy. Hopefully there will a surge of women into the technical fields now they realise they can hack their own sex toys because everything else seems to have failed to attract and retain them in numbers.…

>Sadly the sustained value women can get from a sex toy is so much more than anything a bloke can briefly get.

Uh, yeah, speak for yourself.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by [deleted] »

derleth wrote: post #114
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #101

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I was praying that one was sarcasm...

> I was praying that one was sarcasm... It's part of a culture, one men perpetrate just as much as women if not more, that says "women are the only victims of sexism." If that statement doesn't seem immediately idiotic to you, the best I can offer right now is this: http://www.alternet.org/story/156194/what_about_the_men_why_...

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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by derleth »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #147
derleth wrote: post #118

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> And i'm not even a Feminist. Careful with this: A number of people think that 'feminist' means 'in favor of gender equality', so if you distance yourself from any kind of feminism you're painted as being against gender equality. Also, in their minds no form of feminism is possibly counter to gender equality, even the feminists who think less of women who want to be housewives.

Wow, what a round about way to attack feminism. You have a chip on your shoulder up and down this thread. It's good that you can manage to dismiss it and feel superior about it and pretend you're the moral superiority and champion of gender equality.

I am in favor of gender equality. Whatever you're getting out of my posts is your own problem.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by dematio »

This is awesome. It's cool to see more people are hacking sex toys. Hopefully with all these cool hacks, it will remove the stigma. People have a stigma against vibrator is because they always imagine vibrator as a huge penis vibrator that they seen in porn movies. The fact is many studies shown that size doesn't matter. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/200903/the... The first electrical vibrator was invented as a medical device and to stimulate the clitoris, not the inside.

I believe the world will be a better place when women can have orgasm as much as men do.

My startup, www.vibease.com, is helping couples to stay intimate even from a distance. We have a mobile App with long distance vibrator. We use Bluetooth and internet connection. Currenlty we are taking pre-order. We try to bring it to mainstream market and it's not easy: http://tech.co/vibease-vibrator-app-2012-11

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by zerostar07 »

derleth wrote: post #118
zerostar07 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My deleted comment was "I don't think the majority thinks like that" , which i deleted because i don't have data to back it up. But after reading your reply, what the hell dude/gal? Can't it be that people upvoted the article because sexy subject+technology is double win? Can't it be because i am actually jealous i haven't hacked my penis yet? And i'm not even a Feminist. Now your theory about guilt and nerdgirl fant…

> And i'm not even a Feminist. Careful with this: A number of people think that 'feminist' means 'in favor of gender equality', so if you distance yourself from any kind of feminism you're painted as being against gender equality. Also, in their minds no form of feminism is possibly counter to gender equality, even the feminists who think less of women who want to be housewives.

Indeed i meant i m not an female rights activist; i m all for gender equality.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by cynwoody »

tankbot wrote: post #89
victorhn wrote: post #84

This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity. From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth." How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?

Micah, though traditionally a male name, is sometimes given to females. There is no reason to assume there was a sex change, maybe she got married or just changed her name.

Neither is Stanley. We have the example of Stanley Ann Dunham, do we not?
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