Sex Toy TechWatch

We've got some good news and some bad news this week, but we should be able to keep all you sexy techies happy in the end (so to speak). The bad news: there's a new full frontal assault on browsing porn at work. The good news:the iBuzz, a vibrator for your iPod. All that and more after the jump.

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While we like to think all our readers respect workplace boundaries and save their Fleshbot browsing for home (ahem), we still feel it's worth giving you a heads-up about Irish company PixelArt's new filtering software that blurs porn images beyond recognition and then rats you out to your system administrator. I'm not sure if the Bible says anything about porn, but it certainly has something to say about calumny.

· "Smut-blurring software ruins quality net porn" (theregister.co.uk, via Edifying Spectacle)

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Just in time for Christmas, Love Labs will be delivering a shipment of iBuzz musical vibrators to LoveHoney, an online toy shop in the UK. At 30 quid a pop, they're not terribly expensive ... but what if you don't have an iPod? "Just turn on and enjoy the 7 amazing vibration patterns," or plug it into any headphone jack. Perfect if your only S&M play companion is a PowerBook. (I've certainly wanted to whip mine on occassion).

· iBuzz Music Activated Sex Toy (lovehoney.co.uk, via The Sun)
· "Things I do when Maria left and I am in the middle of Nothingam" (flickr.com, via Slashdong)

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Our gadget geek brother Gizmodo interviews Timothy Archibald, the man behind the "Sex Machines" show at New York's Museum of Sex: a collection of photographs and interviews with the DIY inventors behind sexy bots like the ThrillHammer. While sex toy makers don't have their own magazine (yet), Geek Culture's Joy of Tech thinks Tim O'Reilly should take advantage of this obviously underserved market.

·
Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews by Timothy Archibald
(museumofsex.com)
· "Gizmodo Gallery: Sex Machine (NSFW)" (gizmodo.com)
· The Joy of Tech (geekculture.com, via MAKE: BLOG)
· "The Sex Machine Next Door" (wired.com, via Boing Boing)

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Previously: Sex Toy TechWatch Archive, Machines and Sex, The Sex Machine Diaries, TechnOrgasmic, Orgasm Alley, Thrillhammer Teledildonics, The Robospanker, The Ijaculater, The Machine Project, DIY Masturbator, Hand Job Machine, Fucking Machines