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'Alexa, make my vibrator go insane': OhMiBod unveils smart sex toys you can control from afar

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Sex toy-maker OhMiBod has everybody buzzing at CES this year with its latest Bluetooth-connected pleasure devices. The wife and husband duo debuted a $119 new wearable vibrator that can vibrate and light up to the beat of whatever music you're listening to, and will soon pair with Amazon's Alexa for hands-free voice control. The device, called Esca, works with OhiMiBod's existing smartphone app, which allows you to tweak its vibration patterns – from custom tapping to the Tesla-inspired'Ludicrous mode' – or control your partner's experience from afar. At CES, OhMiBod also announced its new remote intimacy Apple Watch app, which uses biofeedback to control the massagers and can even sync vibrations with a person's heartbeat. At CES 2019, the wife and husband duo behind OhMiBod debuted a $119 new wearable vibrator called Esca (shown), which can vibrate to the beat of whatever music you're listening to, and will soon pair with Amazon's Alexa for hands-free voice control Unlike most popular apps, OhMiBod says its product'doesn't know anything about you.'


The big 'Minecraft' cross-platform update is live, but not on Switch

Engadget

The Better Together update brings the biggest set of changes to hit Minecraft in years, expanding the Community Marketplace, streamlining access to third-party servers and uniting the game across platforms -- and it's all live today. Well, most of it is. Better Together is rolling out across Xbox One, Windows 10, virtual reality and mobile versions of Minecraft right now, but it won't hit the Switch until later this year. Microsoft's original plan, which it unveiled at E3 in June, was to launch Better Together on Switch at the same time as the other platforms (hence the title of the update). PlayStation 4 was never part of the equation for this initial roll-out.


'Rocket League' will die without cross-console multiplayer

Engadget

All online games eventually die. But the difference between the original version of World of Warcraft and, say, Call of Duty: Ghosts is that WoW was more of a service on an open system (PC). Players were able to gradually migrate to its annual expansions, while remaining a part of the overall population. Comparatively, CoD is a franchise with annual sequels on several different pieces of hardware, each with cordoned off players who jump from one game to the next. But sometimes you don't want to stop playing a game just because seemingly everyone has moved on after 14 months.