Tue 31 Jul 2007
Tokyo- MANY Japanese love technology so much that even sex toys are on the cutting edge.
The gPod, a phallic-shaped vibrator, is designed to respond automatically to sounds picked up by an accompanying handset, which can plug into anything from a telephone to a music player to a television.
The 25,000-yen ($200) gPod was one of a number of toys that went on public view Friday at Japan's first-ever sex toy expo in suburban Tokyo.
``You can use it in many ways, for example hooking it up to your mobile phone,'' says Ichiro Kameda, the machine's inventor.
``The dildo vibrates through the same waves as a voice. So one of the ideas is that you can use it here in Tokyo when your boyfriend in New York is talking to you on the phone.''
Kameda says he spent four years trying to design a product when he hit upon the concept. He declined to say how the idea came to him.