It's a whole new way to plug-n-play!

November 30, 2006 1:48 PM

"The OhMiBod vibrator is a whole new way to enjoy your iPod® or any other music player. Everyone loves music. Everyone loves sex. OhMiBod combines music and pleasure to create the ultimate acsexsory™ to your iPod." Keep in mind that if you try to use it with Damien Rice or Bread, your girlfriend will leave you.
posted by jbickers (47 comments total)

The price is very apropos.
posted by armage at 2:02 PM on November 30, 2006

So this vibrator, it...?

Oh, nevermind.
posted by brundlefly at 2:05 PM on November 30, 2006

I still say the viberider is cooler, maybe when the bluetooth version comes out.
posted by jeffburdges at 2:16 PM on November 30, 2006

This idea has been done a couple times now, but I have to say, it's a nice design. I may have to get one, um...for aesthetic reasons.
posted by piratebowling at 2:25 PM on November 30, 2006

I bet you have to buy a case for it or it gets all scratched up.
posted by chococat at 2:35 PM on November 30, 2006

I like the idea of hooking it up to an electric guitar...or, better yet, a keytar!

Or a synthesizer. Can't you just picture Bernie Worrell "playing" his lady? I can.

Garth Hudson, less so.
posted by mistermoore at 2:41 PM on November 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

I think my girlfriend would leave me if she discovered I had an IPod with Damien Rice or Bread on it at all, never mind the vibrator. That's one of the reasons I love her so much.

Also:

"OhMiBod combines music and pleasure to create the ultimate acsexsory™ to your iPod."

This is silly. "Sexcessory" clearly works better than "acsexsory," which is awkward and hard to say.
posted by koeselitz at 2:50 PM on November 30, 2006

How about plugging it into Throbbing Gristle?
posted by randomination at 2:51 PM on November 30, 2006

The price is very apropos.

Maybe if you put it in your mouth, but that would make your fillings hurt.
posted by rokusan at 3:01 PM on November 30, 2006

books on tape...in suppository form!
posted by snofoam at 3:07 PM on November 30, 2006 [3 favorites]

"Keep in mind that if you try to use it with Damien Rice or Bread, your girlfriend will leave you."

If you're a guy who uses one of these, perhaps the operative word here isn't "girlfriend".
posted by clevershark at 3:08 PM on November 30, 2006

OMB users can instantly (and anonymously) become part of a fun, hip community called CLUB VIBE (ohmibod.com/clubvibe), where other OMB aficionados write about their experience, trade tips, share their favorite playlists, and more.

Trade tips? This doesn't exactly seem like something that would have "a thousand different uses".
posted by clevershark at 3:11 PM on November 30, 2006

Rubs me the wrong way.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:14 PM on November 30, 2006

cue Freakaholic by Egyptian Lover...
posted by rhythim at 4:01 PM on November 30, 2006

I'm thinkin' more like The Breeders' "Cannonball"...

Check...check...
AhhhWOOOO-oooooh
AhhhWOOOO-oooooh
AhhhWOOOO-oooooh
posted by ZenMasterThis at 4:04 PM on November 30, 2006

"CLUB VIBE"? how many people are yearning for the chance to join an online community to talk about one specific brand of vibrator? and what are the flame wars like over there?
posted by acid freaking on the kitty at 4:16 PM on November 30, 2006

it automatically vibrates to the rhythm and intensity of the music.

WARNING: COULD BE DANGEROUS FOR SLAYER FANS.
posted by jonmc at 4:18 PM on November 30, 2006

I'd be too embarrassed to buy my girlfriend an ipod to go with the vibrator.
posted by slimepuppy at 4:28 PM on November 30, 2006 [3 favorites]

Finally, a use for that Merzbow CD I never listen to.
posted by unmake at 4:29 PM on November 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

slimepuppy ftw
posted by effugas at 5:04 PM on November 30, 2006

Yes. That was brilliant.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 5:05 PM on November 30, 2006

Mid-period Ministry should be just about right for this. "TV2" or "Hero" springs to mind, for instance.

Am I weird in that I've never had a girlfriend who's cared much about or been stimulated much by the vibrating action of sex toys, but have all preferred normal, non-vibrating toys combined with vigorous movement?
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 5:49 PM on November 30, 2006

acid reaking on the kitty wrote...
"CLUB VIBE"? how many people are yearning for the chance to join an online community to talk about one specific brand of vibrator? and what are the flame wars like over there?

You know who else liked Mozart during sex? HITLER!
posted by tkolar at 6:04 PM on November 30, 2006

Wasn't this on gizmodo about a year ago? Or is just that all new consumer products shiny and white these days?
posted by mattoxic at 6:26 PM on November 30, 2006

I may just be a cheap bastard, but isn't $69.00 kind of pricey for a vibrator that needs an external battery pack? That design problem was solved in like, the fifties.
posted by illovich at 6:37 PM on November 30, 2006

No amount is too much for a Mac fanatic to be able to have sex with their Apple products.
posted by MrBobaFett at 6:52 PM on November 30, 2006 [2 favorites]

The studied results of classical conditioning suggest that this is just the type of thing that leads to unwanted orgasms in inconvenient situations. You'll want to only enjoy the OhMiBod while listening to obscure music that will never be randomly played on the radio while driving, on the loudpeaker while shopping at Gymboree, or whenever you're eating dinner with your parents.

Just a reminder.
posted by krippledkonscious at 6:59 PM on November 30, 2006

krippledkonscious: I think you're missing the point. Those are exactly when people want the happy time to happen without having to do it manually (pun intended).
posted by spaceman_spiff at 7:19 PM on November 30, 2006

a hip, online community of OhMiBod users

yeah, right
posted by caddis at 7:30 PM on November 30, 2006

Can you get it engraved?
posted by Frank Grimes at 7:32 PM on November 30, 2006

I may just be a cheap bastard, but isn't $69.00 kind of pricey for a vibrator that needs an external battery pack? That design problem was solved in like, the fifties.

It's still a lot more fun than the other item at the Metafilter $69 store.
posted by cillit bang at 7:51 PM on November 30, 2006

WARNING: COULD BE DANGEROUS FOR SLAYER FANS

I love having sex to Slayer

Finally, a use for that Merzbow CD I never listen to

Hell, yeah, bring it on.

music is all about sex, this is a great idea, but my boyfriend does a pretty good job all by himself. sexcessories can feel a little... awkward or "oh, let me fiddle with this other thing..."

fuck you, fiddle with me, please.
posted by bobobox at 8:01 PM on November 30, 2006

Pussy Blue?

I wonder it works if you plug it into the tv during a porn movie, would it vibrate in time with the star's moans?

It should come with some sampler music.
posted by fenriq at 8:37 PM on November 30, 2006

And coming from Microsoft next spring: The Poon Zune.
posted by ColdChef at 9:16 PM on November 30, 2006

I've wondered about hooking one of these up to a microphone. Having some kind of control over the vibrations you're getting seems like it would be interesting. Or at least more interesting than just lying there listening to the radio through your cooter.

[full disclosure: author does not, in fact, have a cooter]
posted by nebulawindphone at 10:06 PM on November 30, 2006

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop hating America.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:21 PM on November 30, 2006 [1 favorite]

How about plugging it into Throbbing Gristle?

Good quality MP3 recordings of brown noise are available for your scatalogical pleasure.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 10:42 PM on November 30, 2006

So... I guess Detachable Penis would be a good song to have on a playlist, no?
posted by Talanvor at 11:26 PM on November 30, 2006

Toys In Babeland has a similar unit.
Weird vibrator + color organ kit + ipod = MakeMagazine ipod vibrator mod feature. With a multichannel organ you could control several vibrators or increase the complexity of modulation of a single unit. With a mic you could control the unit like a clapper.
posted by roboto at 11:45 PM on November 30, 2006

Steppenwolf?

Get your motor running...
posted by darkstar at 11:53 PM on November 30, 2006

What I want to know, is has anyone designed a USB-powered/controlled vibator for use during net-sex?

There must be a market for interactive sextoys for that purpose. Some sort of customised client with vibrator controls built in. It's got to be with money!
posted by sycophant at 2:05 AM on December 1, 2006

1812 Overture, here I come...
posted by pupdog at 4:39 AM on December 1, 2006

I was going to make a joke about Mac-Lovers finally being able to have sex with their iPods, but, instead I make this one:

I already have one of these; it's called a subwoofer.
posted by tehloki at 8:11 AM on December 1, 2006

Judging by how things are going right now, the first song on my playlist would be John Cage's 4'33.
posted by patricio at 10:52 AM on December 1, 2006 [1 favorite]

I wonder if you could somehow hook it up to Rez? (a bit NSFW)
posted by A Thousand Baited Hooks at 2:54 PM on December 1, 2006

Wow, hooks, I've actually never read a female testimonial of the trancevibrator before. If I could get a girl to.. err.. participate... while I played, I think I'd probably never stop.
posted by tehloki at 5:04 PM on December 1, 2006

buzzcocks ,orgasm addict
posted by baker dave at 1:17 AM on December 4, 2006