Robot Reproduction Experiment
Saturday, August 15th, 2020 -- by Bacchus
She volunteered? She actually doesn’t seem very keen to participate in the robot reproduction experiment:
Cartoon is from the 1956 Cabaret Yearbook.
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Deep In The Coils
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 -- by Bacchus
Last year when I first noticed and mentioned the then-new-to-the-market Neon Wand electrical sex toy device that competes with the venerable violet wand at a much cheaper price point, I had a few people in meatspace ask me “So, what’s the difference?” And I was all “Umh, well, ya, it’s like, cheaper y’know, and solid state, no moving parts, and, um, maybe a little less powerful they tell me…” I’m good at interfaces and software, but I’m not the sort of guy who has to know how stuff works at the hardware level. (I own several screwdrivers, but when I’ve got one in my hand, something has gone seriously wrong, and odds are, some new shit is getting purchased real soon.)
Fortunately, mad scientists who do understand that tricky hardware stuff abound. One of them is Franklin Veaux, whose review of the Neon Wand contains the essential electronics/hardware discussion you’d never get out of me:
A lot of folks say that a violet wand is a Tesla coil. That’s not actually true. A Tesla coil is an air-cored resonant coil in which the primary and secondary windings share the same air core. You vary the output of a Tesla coil by varying the primary winding.
A violet wand is actually an Oudin coil–an iron-core resonant coil where the primary and secondary winding share the same iron core, and the primary winding is attached to a mechanical interrupter. You vary the output of an Oudin coil by changing the interrupter. In a violet wand, the interruptor is a magnet that vibrates very quickly; you change how strong the output is by turning a knob connected to a screw that actually changes the height of the vibrating magnet. That’s why violet wands always make that characteristic buzzing noise; you’re hearing the magnet vibrating.
The neon wand doesn’t use an old-fashioned Oudin coil at all; it’s entirely solid state. It uses a circuit board with electronics that are more similar to a camera strobe than they are to a resonating coil, though that’s a bit of an oversimplification. Basically, they’re an entirely different technology that does pretty much the same thing. These differences mean that the neon wand is way, way cheaper than a violet wand.
The more you know, right?
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Saturday, October 1st, 2011 -- by Dr. Faustus
All of you reading this who’ve ever wanted to put out a publication that reflects their own erotic vision, kindly raise your hands. (In my imagination, I now see a mighty forest of raised hands.) In middle life I have observed that I am not getting younger, and so I decided to take the publication plunge.
The result is The Apsinthion Protocol, which I wrote and Lon Ryden drew. Life might seem normal at Gnosis College, where the undergraduates pass halcyon days in study, frolic, and humiliating fraternity rituals. But behind its ivy-covered walls lurk faculty mad scientists who look out at their reckless, oversexed students and think, “what outstanding fodder for my work they would make!” Weird experiments that would never pass muster with the human subjects research committee are undertaken, and soon comely coeds are melting in ecstasy. [Editor’s note: That “melting in ecstasy” bit is emphatically not metaphorial. — Bacchus.] But when a senator’s daughter goes missing, things begin to spin out of control.
If you think this pulpy, porny concoction might just be your test tube of tea, I have good news. It’s all available for the great price of free. You can get a reasonably compact (~47MB) PDF file of the entire 205-page comic via direct download by clicking on the graphic above (or here) and you can also get high-resolution PDFs, CBZ comic book archive versions, and E-book reader (*) versions of the comic by visiting the master download page. And it is also archived online here. (And not only is this comic free, it’s also published under a Creative Commons license, so not only are you free to download, you’re free to share to your heart’s content.)
And so what am I going to do now that I’ve achieved this curious life’s ambition? Well, surely I’m not going to stop at just a single volume. For The Apsinthion Protocol is projected as the first of a series called Tales of Gnosis College. So I think I’ll get busy serializing the second volume of the series, Study Abroad, starting…today!
(A note on E-book readers. Comics-to-ebook conversion is still a bit of experimental technology for me. I’ve made several versions for the standard Kindle and they seem to look decent, but please understand that your results might vary by device. If you have a different device, it might be possible for me to customize a version for that device. If you would like me to try, feel free to contact me and I’ll see what I can do for you as soon as I reasonably can. Happy reading!)
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Enjoying The Tormenter
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 -- by Bacchus
So Franklin Veaux has been working for awhile on a sex toy controller he calls “The Tormenter.” Apparently it features a programmable Arduino board so that an insertable buzzy sex toy can be turned on and off in unpredictable patterns over a lengthy period of time, for the purpose of arousing, but not satisfying, the user.
I’ve seen his tweets from time to time, but I’ve been kinda “Meh, mad science” about the idea. But he recently tested a prototype, and I have to say, I quite enjoyed reading the test subject Lapis Lazuli’s subjective impressions:
The device cycles between 11 different patterns (for now), and is USB enabled so that more can be uploaded. But those patterns aren’t static. Like, there’s one that’s just on-off pulses, but that pattern picks a random number of pulses each time. Even if I recognized it, I didn’t know how long it would last. And there were a few longer patterns that started with on-off pulses, too, so I didn’t know that it wouldn’t turn into one of those.
So, between the randomness of pattern order, and the random variables within individual patterns, I couldn’t recognize any of them. This functioned as intended.
Some of the patterns were really short, some were really long, most were in between. The short ones were just enough to remind me that I was wearing a vibrator in public, but not long enough for me to get any pleasure from. The long ones were agonizing because they actually did arouse me, and yet weren’t long enough for me to do anything about it. The medium-duration ones were sufficiently arousing and frustrating. I believe at the time I said the average duration should be longer, so that there would be more arousal (and therefore frustration) and less simple startle.
Just more proof, as if we needed any, that mad science is nothing without enthusiastic test subjects.
Eros Is An Outlaw
Monday, October 25th, 2010 -- by Bacchus
Your lesson for today, courtesy of Dr. Faustus at Erotic Mad Science:
Eros is an outlaw, a bandit, a scoffer at decencies. That’s why so much of erotic fantasy takes place in settings that are beyond the reach of morality somehow, some of which are not at all nice: the savage tropics, the oriental harem, the depraved convent, the women’s prison. Nazisploitation is just a development of this. If you embrace what you are, you’re going to find some things that will make other people pretty unhappy. Face it, live with it, and flourish.
Amen, Brother Faustus!
This was in reference to a fifteen-second clip from a Nazisploitation movie that once caused our Mad Doctor to “withdraw promptly into the privacy of his own chambers.”
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SW, WTF? (An ErosBleg)
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 -- by Dr. Faustus
A little while back, in the course of a post on the possibility that computer technology will soon make fantasy-to-image conversion easier and more satisfying, I mentioned a minor phenomenon I called “SW enthusiasm,” people interested in scenes or instances of women shrinking down to doll size or smaller, and even indulged in a bit of it myself, spinning out a whimsical piece of script in that vein.
Shortly after doing it, I recalled seeing a brief video clip that falls squarely into the SW enthusiasm thing. I recalled it as part of a video collection of some kind, and also that it was incredibly cheap, cheesy, and weird. I considered the possibility that it was some sort of fantasy that got turned into a pseudomemory, but on reflection that didn’t seem quite right, because my fantasies would surely have had better special effects, at least in my mind’s eye.
Well, it’s the glorious age of the Internet, which means that with a certain amount of head-scratching and Google searching and perhaps a small outlay of cash, you can sharpen up strange old memories. And so I did. The clip indeed exists. I saw it in a compilation called Bad Girls in the Movies. And it sure is cheap, cheesy, and weird. My best efforts at transcribing its script would go something like this:
INT. A CHEESY MAD SCIENCE LAB - DAY
GIRL SUBJECT is lying nude on a black-topped table. SUBJECT
#2 stands to one side, wearing what looks like a towel.
ANNOYING ROBOT stands at the head of the table, while
MOUSTACHE GUY stands guard in the background.
ANNOYING ROBOT
(turning from side to side)
Roger this! Roger this! Roger
this! Achieve!
(Note: At least, that's my best guess as to what Annoying
Robot is saying. The voice is processed to sound "roboty"
and isn't very clear.)
CLOSE-UP: MAD SCIENCE GIRL AT HER CONTROL PANEL
MAD SCIENCE GIRL flips several switches and pulls a lever.
CLOSE-UP: GIRL SUBJECT ON THE TABLE
A series of shots showing Girl Subject shrinking down to
about eight inches tall.
CLOSE-UP: MAD SCIENCE GIRL AT HER CONTROL PANEL
Mad Science Girl throws several more switches.
BACK TO SCENE
SUBJECT #3 is now standing next to the table, removing
something that looks like a hospital gown.
Mad Science Girl goes to the table and picks up the shrunken
Girl Subject.
(Note: In this shot "Girl Subject" is obviously a Barbie
Doll or similar sort of doll used as a prop.)
The lab door slides open and TOM comes in, carrying some
sort of futuristic-looking clipboard. He looks down at the
shrunken Girl Subject.
TOM
Not two more.
MAD SCIENCE GIRL
Hi, Tom.
TOM
Hey, careful there!
Tom takes Girl Subject into his hands.
TOM
Poor little things. Just for
making love.
CLOSE-UP: GIRL SUBJECT HELD IN TOM'S HAND
The lower half of Girl Subject's body is wrapped in Tom's
hand. Her hands are held up.
GIRL SUBJECT
This horny bitch dropped me!
BACK TO SCENE
ANNOYING ROBOT
Fornication without sanction!
Fornication without sanction!
Forni...
TOM
(cutting Annoying Robot off)
Don't you ever give anyone a break?
Annoying Robot salutes (?) Tom and leaves the Mad Lab.
(Script formatting created with Celtx.)
I can represent what happens here in some pictures, albeit of regrettably low quality.
The girl on the table.
The girl shrinking.
The girl being picked up by Mad Science Girl.
And being held by Tom.
What I’m still scratching my head about is where on earth is this oddity from? What’s the context here? What strange practice is Tom referring to about shrunken people being “just for making love?” Is this something that the SW enthusiasts of the world really ought to know about?
I would be delighted if anyone could tell me, hence the bleg. I have confidence that it is addressed to the readership best in the world for addressing questions of sexual weirdness.
And even if you can’t tell me, inventing your own movie into which this scene might somehow fit (so at least not every line of dialog seems like a bizarre non-sequitur) might also be a lot of fun.
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