# Teledildonics: So, it apparently exists... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 15, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228 "2010-12-15T12:18:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/1 "2010-12-15T12:18:39Z")
…if this Canadian patent from 2005 is to be believed (URL broken to prevent direct click-through just in case). http: // brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2457021/summary.html?type=number\_search Of course, the fact that a patent has been applied for does not mean that a certain invention is viable. I am a patent examiner and I know that. Nonetheless… The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/2 "2010-12-15T13:35:40Z")
I had no idea what that was - (an electronic sex toy that can be controlled via the computer.) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/3 "2010-12-15T13:41:13Z")
I still remember the first time I heard this term: from a 60-something-year-old college professor. I’m not sure how the topic came up in Intro to Sociology, but there you have it. Alas, he did not live to see this day. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/4 "2010-12-15T18:03:46Z")
Somewhere up in Heaven, Thomas Edison is kicking himself right about now. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/5 "2010-12-15T18:08:18Z")
We get lonely in mid-winter. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/6 "2010-12-15T18:13:47Z")
There’s a bluetooth-enabled vibrator out there that can be controlled by text messages. I think it’s called The Toy, but I’m not going to search for it here. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/7 "2010-12-15T18:18:10Z")
_“One ringy dingy, Two ringy dingies…”_ ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/8 "2010-12-15T18:47:49Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > There’s a bluetooth-enabled vibrator out there that can be controlled by text messages. I think it’s called The Toy, but I’m not going to search for it here. Isn’t that basically a pager set to “vibrate”? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/9 "2010-12-15T18:49:52Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Somewhere up in Heaven, Thomas Edison is kicking himself right about now. _“Watson, cum here. I’ll knead you.”_ ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/10 "2010-12-15T19:09:13Z")
That was Alexander Graham Bell. Or Sherlock Holmes. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/11 "2010-12-15T21:18:03Z")
What you’re looking for is called the “sinulator” and it was a flash in the pan product that never really caught on. It was a dildo that plugged into a USB port and could be controlled(I think it had vibration, a clitoral stimulator, and a grow/shrink feature) through a website hosted on the user’s computer. You could give the site address out and people could go there, log on, and give your sinulator directions on how to operate. It was used in a handful of early era cam shows where girls would offer sinulator shows as a premium service, in theory to give a guy more control over the session and feel more involved. The reality is it was quite stupid and unerotic to click on these buttons on the screen and, combined with the device’s high price point, led to its demise in short order. The lag between webcam, remote user, and device(including round-trip) combined to make it too annoying to satisfyingly(pun intended) use for something which requires as sensitive and rapidly responsive as intimate contact. Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/12 "2010-12-15T21:30:27Z")
Hmmm, I thought (having not heard the term before today) that “teledildonics” = “phone sex”. I bet that it, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco, are still dead. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/13 "2010-12-15T22:59:02Z")
There are male equivalents too that combine artificial vaginas with USB sensors (like [this one](http://vstroker.com/thrixxx.html), NSFW obviously); so far they seem to be made for games and interactive videos, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to connect it to a USB dildo on the other end. And on a search, indeed something similar has been made ([two-person teledildonic rig](http://boingboing.net/2007/01/15/twoperson-teledildon.html)). I’m sure the Japanese or the Sybian people have something that can thrust on the other end too. You can love the Internet or _love_ the Internet, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/14 "2010-12-16T00:00:53Z")
I had an idea for a rubber pad that could stretch itself into both concave and convex cylindrical shape with a rounded tip based on electro-magnetic information sent through the telephone wires. Essentially, it would form the shape that the other person was making on the other end of the line. I called it ‘The Fux Machine’. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teledildonics-so-it-apparently-exists/564228/15 "2010-12-16T02:10:03Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > There are male equivalents too that combine artificial vaginas with USB sensors (like [this one](http://vstroker.com/thrixxx.html), NSFW obviously); so far they seem to be made for games and interactive videos, but it wouldn’t be a stretch to connect it to a USB dildo on the other end. > > And on a search, indeed something similar has been made ([two-person teledildonic rig](http://boingboing.net/2007/01/15/twoperson-teledildon.html)). > > I’m sure the Japanese or the Sybian people have something that can thrust on the other end too. You can love the Internet or _love_ the Internet, I guess. I’d think it more likely that the Japanese just use the AV, with their virtual girlfriends.