I tend to gather a lot of links, and keep thinking "Boy, I'll make a post about each and every one of them someday!" Someday has never, and most likely, will never come. So, instead of trying to gather some sort of motivation and do something original, I present you with It Vibrates, my new "Get all these links out of the way and act like it's new content" series. Without further ado...

• Sony has returned vibration motors to their Dual-Shock controllers. So now it will rumble while you try to fling it around wildly in order to satiate the demon that lives inside each and every SixAxis. (via Destructoid

• Of course, while we're at it, there's also DS Rumble and PSP Rumble now too. I should really get around to implementing a handheld version of the sexbox. (via HackADay)

• Touch is a remote haptics project that allows people to touch each other over long distances (via SuicideBots)

• The Celebrator is a god damn plastic cover for your electric toothbrush so you can use it to masturbate. Because somehow saran wrap is too difficult to use. (via sexblo.gs)

• Piss Screen is a urinal based game control mechanism. The harder you pee on a certain pad, the harder it does some action. No yellow hanky help or Urigro cheating allowed.

• There's a sex machine museum in Prague! I wanna go!

Wow. I should really clean out my google reader starred items more often....

Up until today, I didn't even know that there was a "Not Liable" category to Instructables. That makes me so happy.

And now you can probably see why it's called that. This is the Jigsaw Massager. Just remove the cutty parts and replace them with thumpy parts, and you now have your very own power tool massager. Now you can have some relaxing foreplay before pulling out your drilldo.

Slashdong Book Club: Blue Root

There's definitely some perks to having words like "teledildonics" as technorati search feeds. Mainly because I find things like this. Blue Root is a book that was released for free today by its author, Rina Slayter. The reasons she's releasing it, from her blog:

Because writer friends of mine keep asking me what's up with it, where it's being published and are shocked to find out that no, it's not going to be released in paperback or even ebook from a publisher who was willing to take a chance. They enjoyed it so much that they still ask after having read it over a year ago and hadn't forgotten in.

Sure, it's got some first-book-itis, but a lot of the things in it are being tackled today. Teledildonics comes to mind. Bluetooth-enabled portable computer devices. The iPhone.

And suddenly, the reason I'm posting about this becomes evident. Yes, folks, it's a book with teledildonics in it. How can advertising like this not make you want to read the fuck out of this thing?

For some light reading including a networkable, programmable sex toy, a wimpy villain who reeks like garlic, a semi-self-aware A.I., a cat named Trouble, a rekindled romance and a whole lot of sex-crazed, living zombies, read Blue Root.

So, go on, read it. You know you want to. I'll be writing a book report and presenting it to the class when I'm done.

Shit yes, it is on.

For some values of it.

No, seriously. $25 gets you into what will easily be the more forward thinking, interesting, and down right motherfucking AWESOME conference of this sufficiently large period of time surrounding the point at which the conference happens. The lineup is insane. The topics are important. Start hitchhiking now if you have to. I don't usually make whole paragraphs links, but it's that important.

From the depiction of a vulva in a cave painting to the newest internet porno, technology and sexuality have always been closely linked. No one can predict what the future will bring, but history indicates that sex will continue to play an essential role in technological development. The porno effect accompanies every new technological development. Is it going too far to assume that research in nanotechnology and genetic engineering will be influenced by our sexual needs? The surgical modification of sexual organs is no longer something very unusual. The question is not whether these technologies alter humanity, but how they do so.