Babeland sent me a little something to make my holiday weekend more interesting. The win this round by very generously sending me the waterproof Smart Wand by Lelo. I haven’t tried it yet, but if it’s what I think it is – a small silicone Hitachi with multiple speeds – I’ll be putting this on my top ten gift list for you this year. But in black, not purple. Mine is purple. But that’s okay because I won’t be taking it outside.

I always hate this holiday and the next ones, what with the whole no family [...]

There is a great – and technically detailed – post over at scanlime right now called Hacking My Vagina. In it, Bay Area based Beth (M. Elizabeth Scott) hardware hacks a Lelo remote-controlled vibrator to try and make a sex toy that would facilitate a heightened feedback loop between herself and her vaginal orgasms. Basically, she wanted to mess with the remote and see if there were better ways the vibe might receive its information from the controller, and therefore execute different vibratory behaviors.

She uses a Lelo Lyla, which is from Lelo’s ingenious Sense Motion line (I [...]