Beth was a bit disappointed by the Taboo Naughty but Nice Sex Show:
Every single booth seemed to have the same thing – if you were in the market for lube, vibrators, lube, a sexy Catholic school girl outfit or lube, you were in luck. But how many vibrator-lube-sexyCatholicschoolgirloutfit-and-lube booths can one person really look at in an afternoon?
Seventeen or eighteen, maybe? Anyhow, one product she does remark on is the awkwardly named OhMiBod (safeness-for-work may vary), a vibrator that plugs into your iPod and “to the rhythm and intensity of the music”. If you think that name is bad, read about the ‘Acsexories’ you can get for your fancy new sex toy. Meh.
Clever idea, but I immediately had several questions:
- How much battery power does it need? A lot, I would guess. Ah, hang on. Just found the product info page, and the device itself takes two AA batteries.
- How does it handle classical music? Will, uh, ‘listening’ to Bach make you late for work (I see they have some recommended music).
- Does it only come in Apple White?
Still, it’s probably just the thing to eliminate that pre-MacWorld anxiety.
Speaking of stuff that plugs into your iPod, I feel obligated to remark on the nightmare that is the iPod’s backward-compatibility problems. I recently tried to plug in Julie’s old (as in, 18 months old) iPod Shuffle into my MacBook. The device is too wide, and covers both USB ports when you plug it in.
Don’t iTase Me, Sis
Speaking of accessories for music-loving women, consider the iTaser.
It’s a taser with a built-in MP3 player, and it comes with a fashionable leopard-print grip. It’s apparently for the woman who wants to go jogging with the tunes, but not wear a utility belt to accommodate all her accessories. Besides, didn’t you hear that tasers are the new tupperware?
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In the interest of full disclosure, I should state that I used to be a Catholic schoolgirl. But I do remember my kilt being a big longer than the ones sold at the Sex Show (knee length vs. crotch length).
Also, I was listening to a Canucks podcast yesterday and given my unconventional sex toy naming habits, I couldn’t help thinking what the OhMiBod would be like if one were playing a Canucks podcast. She shoots, she scores!
The iPod shuffle issue isn’t a backward-compatibility problem — it covered up both USB ports on an iBook I used to have, which was older than the shuffle itself. It’s just a design issue. Indeed, those shuffles (and a lot of USB memory keys, and other devices) won’t fit at all directly into some models of iMacs or eMacs (also older than the shuffle) without a USB extender cable or hub.
Real compatibility problems come with some of the insane new requirements that 6G iPods (like the “Classic”) won’t output video like the 5G models, for the sole reason that Apple now wants manufacturers to pay for an authorization chip in video adapters. And the iPhone and iPod touch, despite using the same dock connector, don’t support accessories like the various audio recorders available for their immediate predecessors, for no good reason I can see (the newer models can be hacked to record audio).
But at least they don’t use Microsoft’s “Plays for Sure” DRM, which doesn’t play at all on the Zune and seems Surely destined for the scrap heap.
I had quite a similar feeling when I went to the Taboo show last year for the first time. Hence, I wasn’t interested in paying $15-20 entrance again to walk through 18-30 virtually identical sex shop/kiosks and “taking the opportunity” to buy very normal bottle of ___ and pack of ___.
I guess you *could* go for the shows on the mainstage and to get a picture with a snake but otherwise it’s a letdown.
Ditto. The only reason I’ve gone at all in the last five years is if I was working there. The last two, I’ve had no reason to go, and didn’t regret it for a moment.