A sex toy maker has agreed to pay customers up to $10,000 CAD each after allegations that it had collected data about its customers' We-Vibe vibrator usage habits without their consent. The smart sex toy, created by Ottawa-based Standard Innovation, allows users to control vibration intensity through an accompanying smartphone app. However, a demonstration at the Def Con hacking conference in August last year showed that the firm was secretly gathering potentially sensitive information about We-Vibe's users, including dates and times of use, temperature levels and changes in intensity. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar. Japan's On-Art Corp's CEO Kazuya Kanemaru poses with his company's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' and other robots during a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan Japan's On-Art Corp's eight metre tall dinosaur-shaped mechanical suit robot'TRX03' performs during its unveiling in Tokyo, Japan Singulato Motors co-founder and CEO Shen Haiyin poses in his company's concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China A picture shows Singulato Motors' concept car Tigercar P0 at a workshop in Beijing, China Connected company president Shigeki Tomoyama addresses a press briefing as he elaborates on Toyota's "connected strategy" in Tokyo.

A woman is suing a sex toy firm after discovering that the company was keeping tabs on its customer's intimate data. The sex toy and its corresponding smartphone app enables users to customise setting to suit their preference. The class action civil suit was filed against the maker of the We-Vibe smart dildo, Standard Innovation. There were concerns about the We-Vibe 4 Plus, a vibrator that connects to a smartphone app that, its makers say, 'allows couples to keep their flame ignited - together or apart' The We-Vibe user, who filed the suit in Illinois, later realised that the app was relaying data back to the company, according to a report in Vocativ. These included when she used the toy and which vibration settings she used, along with her email address.

Not even your vibrator is safe from hackers - who could take it over remotely. Experts have warned that the new generation of dildos are vulnerable because they are connected to the Internet. They said that hackers could exploit the web connection which links up to an app and allows your partner to pleasure you from anywhere in the world. Hacking a vibrator raises the prospect of a total stranger being in control during a person's most intimate moment. Computer security researchers said that such a hack could constitute a sexual assault if it were to take place.