Sex toy-maker OhMiBod has everybody buzzing at CES this year with its latest Bluetooth-connected pleasure devices.
The wife and husband duo debuted a $119 new wearable vibrator that can vibrate and light up to the beat of whatever music you’re listening to, and will soon pair with Amazon’s Alexa for hands-free voice control.
The device, called Esca, works with OhiMiBod’s existing smartphone app, which allows you to tweak its vibration patterns – from custom tapping to the Tesla-inspired ‘Ludicrous mode’ – or control your partner’s experience from afar.
At CES, OhMiBod also announced its new remote intimacy Apple Watch app, which uses biofeedback to control the massagers and can even sync vibrations with a person’s heartbeat.
At CES 2019, the wife and husband duo behind OhMiBod debuted a $119 new wearable vibrator called Esca (shown), which can vibrate to the beat of whatever music you’re listening to, and will soon pair with Amazon’s Alexa for hands-free voice control
The sex tech company produces a full line of Bluetooth-enabled devices, all of which were on display at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
All of them connect to the app (available for both iOS and Android) and can be used for remote intimacy, allowing both partners to be involved in play even if they’re separated by long distances.
This is particularly useful in relationships where one or both partners travel a lot or live a great distance away from each other, the creators explain.
‘We can connect from anywhere in the world,’ founder Suki Dunham, who started the company with her husband Brian, told Dailymail.com.
‘It’s a really cool way to stay connected intimately.’
‘We get a lot of long distance relationship couples and military couples,’ Dunham said.
‘The world is becoming smaller and smaller.’
The app lets you choose from four different vibration modes, including Rhythm Mode and the intense Ludicrous Mode.
In Club Mode, the app ‘takes in ambient sound’ and the massager vibrates accordingly.
At CES, OhMiBod also announced its new remote intimacy Apple Watch app, which uses biofeedback to control the massagers and can even sync vibrations with a person’s heartbeat.
At the crowded tech show, this meant the connected vibrator buzzed along to Dunham’s voice.
But, ‘if we were in a club or a concert, or in the car, it would vibrate to the music,’ Dunham explained.
The new Apple Watch app has a lot of these same functionalities – but, it also comes with the more intimate Pulse Mode.
Pulse Mode reads the heartbeat of the Watch-wearer and causes the toy’s vibrations to match up.
In a demonstration for Dailymail.com, Brian ran in place and did a few jumping jacks to raise his heart rate with Pulse Mode enabled on his Apple Watch.
And as he did, the vibrator on display revved up, too.
The devices connect to an app (available for both iOS and Android) and can be used for remote intimacy, allowing both partners to be involved in play even if they’re separated by long distances. The Alexa skill is still in the beta phase, but is expected to be released this spring
While OhMiBod’s smart features undoubtedly make for a unique playful experience, its foray into Alexa capability also makes its devices more accessible to disabled users.
‘What’s really cool is the other day I had a woman come up to me who was visually impaired, and she was really excited about the idea of Alexa,’ Suki Dunham told Dailymail.com.
The Alexa skill is still in the beta phase, but is expected to be released this spring.
The most important feature in OhMiBod’s line-up may be its privacy measures.
Lower security connected devices such as smart sex toys have become a growing concern in recent years due to the ambiguity of their data collection and susceptibility to hacking.
Sex toy-maker OhMiBod has everybody buzzing at CES this year with its latest Bluetooth-connected pleasure devices
The Krush toy connects to the OhMiBod app to show how hard you’re really squeezing, and if you’re doing the exercise right
But unlike most popular apps, OhMiBod says its product ‘doesn’t know anything about you.’
While users can choose to input an email address to recover their account in the event they need to reset a password, this is the only information you’re asked to provide, and it’s completely optional.
According to Dunham, ‘The data sits on your phone, not on a server somewhere.’
OhMiBod’s Bluetooth-enabled Esca vibrator will launch later this year.