I hate to be the bearer of bad news to you, American ladies, but thanks to a ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission, a bunch of vibrators made by Lelo Shanghai Trading and other manufacturers infringe on a Canadian patent held by Standard Innovation, makers of the popular We-Vibe series of vibrators. That means any of those knock-off love clubs you’ve been getting won’t be available for sale any longer. But hey, now you can stimulate the Canadian economy (and your G-spot)!
One of the cooler products, the aptly named Thrill, looks like a vacuum cleaner, but was engineered by a former bomb disposal expert who quipped, “This is just managing a different kind of explosion.” The Thrill was made using a CAD model named Jessie, who with her anatomically correct digital ladyparts gave the engineers (of Black & Decker and Nortel) plenty of room to play with and design a product that is optimistically great for about 70% of women. While not venturing into the hazy world of teledildonics, the Thrill has some great reviews, so all the technological hype has to mean something.
Something being results, if you know what I mean.
[via New York Times]
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Vidal Wu is an intern at Toronto Standard. You can follow him on Twitter at @vidalwuu.
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