{"id":6645,"date":"2010-12-01T08:33:18","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2010-12-01T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T14:05:12","slug":"the-inevitable-convergence-of-new-technology-with-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/the-inevitable-convergence-of-new-technology-with-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"The inevitable convergence of new technology with sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

PC World<\/a> looks at the latest convergence of all the sex-obsessed geeks in the world and the latest consumer electronics toys:<\/p>\n

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It’s practically the universal rule of electronics: Where there’s technology, there’s sex. Embrace it or shun it, but it’s the way of the world.<\/p>\n

Now, it looks like Microsoft’s new Kinect may be the latest gadget to fall prey to prurient interests. The Kinect is undergoing a series of experiments designed to turn its motion-sensitive virtual gaming into motion-sensitive virtual mating.<\/p>\n

Oh, come on — are you really that<\/em> surprised?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The original term was “teledildonics”, which has the virtue of allowing you to discuss it without quite giving away the true subject.<\/p>\n

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If you want to know about the possibilities of Kinect sex, just ask Kyle Machulis. Machulis, aka “qdot,” runs a site called slashdong.org (Google it at your own risk). The site, which I probably shouldn’t mention by name more than once, focuses on the meeting point between sex and tech. It featured a blog this week exploring the idea of X-rated uses for Kinect-enabled Xboxes (hat tip to the crew from CNET for finding the page).<\/p>\n

In the blog, Machulis — who was recently cited by New Scientist<\/em> as a Kinect-hacking authority — observes how the Kinect is able to use depth in order to identify a person’s body shape. He goes on to note, however, that Microsoft’s gaming console really tracks the human body “as a whole,” looking at “major geometric features” of a user’s form. This doesn’t bode well for the prospect of Kinect sex; without getting too graphic, let’s just say that the primary anatomy involved in intimate relations isn’t exactly a “major geometric feature.” Sorry, fellas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

New technology is notoriously prone to being harnessed to the interests of prurience . . . after Gutenberg and his competitors got the mass-produced bible business going, one of the next profitable niches to be explored was the erotic\/pornographic book market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC World looks at the latest convergence of all the sex-obsessed geeks in the world and the latest consumer electronics toys: It’s practically the universal rule of electronics: Where there’s technology, there’s sex. Embrace it or shun it, but it’s the way of the world. Now, it looks like Microsoft’s new Kinect may be the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,73,15],"tags":[139,255],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-randomness","category-technology","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Jb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6647,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/6647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}