Quelltext der Seite How Tech Is Taking Over Your Orgasm

id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Enlarge Image<br>Robert Doornbos (right) and Maurice Op de Beek help lead Kiiroo, which makes Internet-connected sex toys. <br><br>Max Taves/CNET<br>	   Robert Doornbos and I are sharing a moment.<br> 	   Standing about a foot away, the tall, bald and unabashed Dutchman strokes a lily-white rubber dildo that, via the magic of the Internet and a smartphone, syncs up with a "fleshlight." Never heard of it? Think of a hollow flashlight lined with silicone that feels like a ... well, you know. <br><br>When Doornbos grips the dildo, the fleshlight tightens. When he rubs it, the insides move.<br><br>A former professional race car driver, Doornbos is co-founder of Amsterdam-based Kiiroo. The company spent the last two years figuring out how to use the latest computer technology to simulate human touch without having someone else actually there. <br><br> 	   "We added the third dimension of touch to the Internet," he tells me from the show floor of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, where I'm spending the week trying to understand how technology is changing our sex lives.<br><br> 	   Doornbos' company is part of that changing landscape. His devices  don't just interact with each other, they can also synchronize with porn  videos to give people a sense of participating in the action.<br><br>"We added the third dimension of touch to the Internet."<br>Robert Doornbos, co-founder of Kiiroo<br><br><br><br> 	  The  dildo, dubbed the Pearl, costs $149. Its counterpart for men, the Onyx,  goes for $249. Purchased together, they're $360. The company sells them  directly and they're even available on Amazon. (If you'd like to see  what they look like, Kiiroo's  website has plenty of photos.)<br><br> 	  Adult  entertainment may sell itself as a fantasy, but the next frontier is  about bringing it into the real world. Until now, that's meant sex toys  designed with traits of popular porn actors, like a dildo made from the  mold of your favorite fantasy man.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Now playing:<br>Watch this:<br><br>Pornhub devotes separate channel for VR porn<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>1:19<br><br><br><br><br><br> 	 Along with , we're on the verge of simulation itself: bringing the action to you, either through devices like Kiiroo's or others like Realov's Irena I, which bills itself as a smart vibrator. Touch a smartphone running a special app, and the vibrator responds from anywhere in the world.<br><br><br>Related Articles<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <br> 	   The technology is called haptic communication, and it springs from Silicon Valley's decades-long efforts to teach computers to sense human touch. Video game companies have been giving players a sense of movement via vibrating controllers since the 1970s. But thanks to the mass production of smartphones and  fleshlight.sjv.io/DVLa2b tablets from Apple, LG and Samsung, haptic technology has become cheap, ubiquitous and accurate.<br><br> 	   Now the adult entertainment industry is getting in on the action, and it could become big business. Adult stores rake in $1.4 billion in sales each year, according to market research firm IBIS World. And sales of sex toys are growing, in contrast to video sales, which are expected to remain stagnant over the next few years.<br><br> 	   Movies like "Fifty Shades of Grey" and popular TV shows like "Sex and the City" have helped bring adult toys into the mainstream. Even drug stores like Walgreens sell vibrators now.<br><br> 	   The next step is coming from porn studios, which are already beginning to sync up videos to work with smart sex toys.<br>