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Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by dematio »

larrys wrote: post #57
ghjm wrote: post #49

This is a really cool hack, but my problem is that I don't understand the sex part. What's better about waving your hands around to control the motor speed, vs. using a dial? This is not out of prurient interest. I just can't understand the engineering without understanding the use case. Maybe you have to be female to get this?

I would almost say that it would make more sense to have something you touch to create the changes in speed or intensity or whatever vs. air waving? And I would think it would be possible to actually use a smartphone (with vibration feedback) that you rub,touch whatever which would be better than air. The feedback is important also. I fly rc helis and once you get used to using the sticks and the channels on a tradit…

Yups, there is one. www.vibease.com

I'm the founder btw. We help couples to stay intimate, even from a distance, by using mobile app and long distance vibrator. We use Bluetooth and internet. http://mashable.com/2012/10/26/vibease-sex-toy-app/

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by dematio »

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".

Vibease is trying to disrupt the sex toys industry and bring it to mainstream market.

I'm the founder btw. We help couples to stay intimate, even from a distance, by using mobile app and long distance vibrator. We use Bluetooth and internet. http://mashable.com/2012/10/26/vibease-sex-toy-app/

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by qdot76367 »

larrys wrote: post #57
ghjm wrote: post #49

This is a really cool hack, but my problem is that I don't understand the sex part. What's better about waving your hands around to control the motor speed, vs. using a dial? This is not out of prurient interest. I just can't understand the engineering without understanding the use case. Maybe you have to be female to get this?

I would almost say that it would make more sense to have something you touch to create the changes in speed or intensity or whatever vs. air waving? And I would think it would be possible to actually use a smartphone (with vibration feedback) that you rub,touch whatever which would be better than air. The feedback is important also. I fly rc helis and once you get used to using the sticks and the channels on a tradit…

Well, vibease is now alive and kickin' here, so there's a couple of other apps I'll mention:

- BodyHeat, by OhMiBod/PerfectPlum: http://www.ohmibod.com/app/

- Closer ToGetHer - http://www.getclosertogether.com/

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by qdot76367 »

GuiA wrote: post #85
lobotryas wrote: post #4

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.

This is actually much less taboo in Asia, where there are many startups in that space.

Have the names/urls of any? All I've seen lately is Vibease because they're coming to American competitions. Would love to know of more.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by ErrantX »

jQueryIsAwesome wrote: post #142
rjknight wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It probably would be (assuming the ban on penis-related article titles could be circumvented). This is actually a seriously good article of the kind that frequently get upvoted and I don't think this case has much to do with gender.

It has everything to do with gender, a man hacking a fleshlight would get none or almost none upvotes, I bet it would even get flagged by a few. Its a predictable fantasy of the average reader of HN, the equivalent of a photo of a pretty woman doing charity with a cat in reddit. Is not only the fact that she is a woman, is the surrounding context of a sexual stimulation device that provoque so many upvotes. Personall…

Reading the threads on this page the comments appear genuinely interested in this tech, and related themes. Asking intelligent questions Etc.

In fact, the only awkward thread, which seems a little sexist is this one... Food for thought.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by duaneb »

vacri wrote: post #23
zeteo wrote: post #5

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

Why does any article focusing on women's experience have to have someone come along and say 'it's hard for us men'?

I have no problem with articles on sex appearing on HN-I assume most of us are adults-but it's disappointing that there aren't similar topics for men. I'm not sure whether it's because male sexuality is narrower (yet, strangely, far more accepted if it's accepted at all) or because an article on female sexuality is more popular among the (presumably) male-dominated site.

Anyway, this is the first article of it's kind I've ever seen on HN, so I'm not too worried. I haven't seen anything remotely approaching the misogyny that feels absolutely rampant on the rest of the internet (e.g. Reddit) that drove me here.

In any case, more directly addressing your comment, I think it's a great question to ask- gender and sex differences in society are always interesting/potentially fruitful discussion topics, IMHO.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by kephra »

scanlime wrote: post #143

Hey, this is beth from scanlime.org. I was doing my best to keep the site up, but it looks like Dreamhost just pulled the plug. I'm pretty annoyed with this.

oh HN managed a DDoS again

608 points should be around 60.000 visitors. Thats something any site should be able to handle, but ...

http://dreamhost.com/servers/vps/ UNLIMITED ... till they pull the plug lol

But it might also just be that the site is overloaded. I sometimes get an "Error establishing a database connection" and sometimes "Problem loading page". So there is still a server who desperately tries to answer requests.

What kind of server do you have at dreamhost? A VPS? Is that VPS some Viruozzo/OpenVZ crap, or a Xen instance?

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by kdazzle »

zeteo wrote: post #5

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

Being a generally excellent article aside, there are really very few articles on HN that deal with women, and even fewer that have a feminist bent, such as this one could be easily argued to have.

There is also a noticeable lack of women in tech, so an article for and about women is more notable and interesting than articles about dudes wanting to be or being entrepreneurs. Those are being written roughly the same way twenty times per day.

Now if you're curious about how big your hypothetical penis article gets, the best way to find out is probably not by posting thinly veiled sexist comments. Instead I suggest finding out how to hack your penis (literally, if you want) and then writing an article as well as this woman has.

Re: Hacking my Vagina

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Post by makomk »

MiguelHudnandez wrote: post #112
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…

> It's still objectification of women if you try to turn into one and then objectify yourself. I don't buy in to the equivalence of building a better vibrator and objectifying women. Whether she is trans* or not has nothing to do with this writeup. Why belittle her accomplishments? This is an innovative idea, and it will get people thinking about different ways to please themselves or their lovers.

In some people's eyes trans women are objectifying women merely by existing, and those people tend to interpret everything they do through that lens. I'm a bit surprised to see a comment like that on HN though; this particular form of transphobia is basically a radical feminist thing, and I didn't know we had any radfems.
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