Adam Voorhes; Prop Styling: Robin Finlay
Hello Touch X
When it comes to pleasure peripherals, dildos aren’t for everyone. So some companies are thinking outside the (dick in a) box with new sex toys, like Jimmyjane’s powerful fingertip vibrator. Inspired by Sigourney’s cyborg suit in Aliens, it’s meant to be an extension of your body.
Two-pronged touch
Most ladies want stroking, not just poking, so for its signature model, Jimmyjane took inspiration from the popular Rabbit vibrator, building two flexible vibrating fingerpads—like rabbit ears—to deliver clitoral sensation in stereo.
Coin motors
Fingertip vibes often use large DC motors, but the X hides a 14,000-rpm coin motor, half the size of a penny, in the sleeve of each pad. Designers tested its intensity and power with an accelerometer until it outperformed the competition.
Charging pack units
The disposable AAAs in many buzzies drain quickly, forcing you to choose between your TV remote and your orgasm. The X’s lithium-ion battery delivers stronger vibrations and recharges with a USB cable.
Silicone sheath
Materials in sex toys are largely unregulated, but these fingerpads are made of nonporous, medical-grade silicone to help keep bacteria at bay. A waterproof seal around the battery pack connection protects its insides.
E-stimulation
Vibratory caresses not intense enough for you? The X has two electrical stimulation pads, one positive, one negative. Once your skin completes the circuit, up to 15 milliamps of current increase blood flow and contract muscles. Yowza!
Adam Voorhes; Prop Styling: Robin Finlay
Eva
Most vibrators need hands to keep them in place—which prevents fingers from doing other, funner things. So sex educator Alexandra Fine set out to find a hands-free fix. After a DIY attempt involving a half-dollar wrapped in Saran wrap, she teamed up with mechanical engineer Janet Lieberman to form Dame Products. The result: an innovative, low-profile couples vibrator for the cliterati. Look, ma, no hands!
Location matters
Many clit-specific vibrators are U-shaped, to hook inside—but they tend to have a numbing effect on your partner. The Eva sits directly over the clitoris, applying vibration just where it’s wanted.
Loving arms
Friends who volunteered for testing complained that the vibrator fell off while doing the deed. So Lieberman gave it wings to stay in place. “As you open and close your legs,” Fine says, “it opens and closes its wings with you.”
Flexible fit
Lieberman used a 3-D printer to iterate the flexible wings 75 times. She played with materials, curves, and angles to create a lightweight plastic form that would bend and snap back, helping the Eva stay snug.
Powerhouse
The Eva is powerful despite its size, packing 7 g’s of acceleration into a petite 1.1-inch egg. Users cycle through three pulse strengths by pressing a large, easy-to-access button in the center.
Rubber cover
To encase the Eva’s funky shape in silicone, Fine couldn’t use traditional injection molding—its high temperatures would damage the electronics inside. So she vulcanized the rubber with a cooler curing process.
Plus 14 Top-Selling Dildos
Companies like Jimmyjane and Dame may be transcending the limitations of penis imitation, but the dildo still towers over the competition. At erotic shop Adam & Eve, which sells 2 million–plus sex toys a year, 14 of the top 25 are penis-shaped (more or less).
*units sold in 2014 by Chris Philpot
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