Sex tech returned for another year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), with several companies showcasing a range of erotic devices that improve both men's and women's performance and experience between the sheets. Satisfyer brought a trove of vibrators to the Las Vegas tech conference, all of which pair to a smartphone and some use the power of air to stimulate the body. Health tech pioneer Lora DiCarlo is back for her third CES since the ban on sex tech was lifted in 2020 and this year her company a micro-bot that simulates a human mouth, providing gentle massage and pressure to remedy sexual dysfunction among women. Technologies to increase men's sexual performance are also present at the conference, with one firm debuting a smart patch that prolongs sexual intercourse. Satisfyer brought a trove of vibrators to this year's Consumer Electronics Show, joining several other companies in the sex tech industry Sex tech was banned from attending CES after its 2019 event, but the event's organizers came under fire for the move and brought back in 2020 on a trial basis.

Sex tech will grace the CES gadget show in Las Vegas this week after organizers endured scorn for revoking an innovation award to a sex device company led by a female founder. CES will allow space for sex tech companies as a one-year trial. The companies will be grouped in the health and wellness section of the Sands Expo, an official, but secondary CES location, one geared toward startups. Lora DiCarlo, a startup that pushed for changes after organizers revoked its award, will showcase its Osé robotic "personal massager." It's one of a dozen companies at the show focused on vibrators, lube dispensers and other sex tech products.

CES 2020 has had an embarrassing change of heart for the second year in a row after honouring a cannabis-storing keepsafe product with an innovation award and then banning it from the tradeshow floor. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA), which hosts the annual tradeshow in Las Vegas, awarded Canadian company Keep Labs with an innovation award in the run-up to the tech showcase event, which runs this week. Keep Labs, which uses facial recognition for the secure storage of cannabis in people's homes, was awarded for its'discreet' Smart Storage cannabis box. However, as reported by Tech Crunch, CTA told the company it could only exhibit if the company's signage, marketing materials and product was free from cannabis and associated paraphernalia. This was slightly difficult to accommodate, as the product is dedicated solely to cannabis storage, so Keep Labs therefore decided not to exhibit at CES 2020.

The Consumer Electronic Association has rescinded its Innovation Award given to a sex toy, disqualifying the personal massager because they deemed it to be'immoral, obscene, indecent, profane'. The Ose massager, created by mostly-female startup company Lora DiCarlo, is a tool to give a hands-free blended orgasm by using advanced micro-robotics to mimic a human partner. The CEA, which is currently holding its CES showcase in Las Vegas, granted a CES Innovation Award in the robotics category to Lora DiCarlo for its sex toy, but according to owner Lora Haddock the award was taken back a month later. Now Haddock is appealing the decision, which she calls a double standard and says has potentially cost the startup investors. A CES spokeswoman said in a statement: 'The product does not fit into any of our existing product categories and should not have been accepted for the Innovation Awards Program.