Mutsugoto: New-Age Sex Toy Perfect for Long-Distance Lovers

Long distance relationships are hard enough without adding false hope to the mix. 

Such as the mutsugoto, a computer vision system built for couples to draw lights over each other’s beds when apart. 

Via Gizmodo:

 

Two years in development, Mutsugoto is part art and all romance. It’s aimed at people in long-distance relationships and promises to give a bit more than an “I love you, Pooks” SMS before settling down to sleep. The creation of Tomoko Hayashi, Stefan Agamanolis, Matthew Karau, Mutsugoto consists of a computer vision system and a projector to draw light over the couple’s bed and body as they lie in bed, yearning and dreaming of their better half.

Each partner wears a special ring that enables them to draw, using light, over their own, and their other half’s bodies. A camera above the bed picks up the movements of the touch-activated ring as it passes over the body and transmits them to the computer system, which then converts the virtual pen strokes into light. The twinkling shots of light give each partner a hint where the other is “touching” them, while the strokes mirror the actual pressure. When the paths of light actually cross (think of when Venkman and Spengler cross the streams in Ghostbusters, but without the actual protonic reversal) then the light changes color.

Absolutely not. If I’d wanted to have sex with a light I’d date a laser pointer. What’s wrong with just having cyber? The building and releasing of the tension once you meet up again in real life is the best part.

Source: DV!CE via BBC News via Gizmodo