[Ani Niow] built this steam powered vibrator. It has a milled stainless steel shell with a brass motor structure. The motor is a Tesla turbine made from a stack of Dremel diamond cutoff wheels. This drives an off-center weight to create the vibration. She tested it using a pressure cooker as the steam source. It worked, but became so hot it had to be held using welding gloves. It works just as well with compressed air though. You can see the device at the Femina Potens Art Gallery in San Francisco or later this month at Maker Faire.
[via Laughing Squid]
UPDATE: [Ani] responds in the comments.
This is lame! I built one, burned my lips and chipped a tooth!
@Bob: lol, you’re doing it wrong
@bob: hoped that steam-powered lollipop was at least cherry-flavored..
It’s interesting how people take this kind of post, I personally think it’s kinda cool, I wasn’t quite aware that theres a stated age limit on this site though….I mean correct me if I’m wrong (which I probably am, I just tend to skim). Sex and sexual related content usually gets such an hoard of complaints, and as mentioned above by others it is interesting to look at the different responses, some are religion motivated, socially motivated, others are motivated from their timidness from the whole subject maybe, people are incredibly predictable sometimes.
for me I think it’s kinda funny, also liked the “well at least shes staying in the kitchen” sexist joke, people are way too politically correct nowadays, you’d be surprised at how much worse it can make a situation.
take a little time to think about the hack, after you’ve gone through the gut reaction of how you’ve been taught to respond, then look at it as how it was supposed to be looked at, why it’s actually on this site, it was posted as a pretty original creation that the creator decided to make, look at it analytically or derive humor from it if you want just don’t shoot down someones creation because it’s what you think you should do, I would of thought that the viewers of this site would be beyond this….little short sighted of me I guess lol.
wow, didn’t realize the hack crowd was a bunch of non-masturbating puritans. If ya’ll are from the states then the transition to sociofascism – http://atarslight.blogspot.com/2004/11/understanding-sociofascism_02.html – should be a breeze for the Obama ministration.
My mother had a “massager” that used to sit on the table behind our couch, my stepfather would use it on her back and legs after long bike rides. While it never occurred to her that it may be used for nether regions, a bicycle riding friend from church(when we used to go) came over one day and was aghast that she would leave such things laying around.
BTW- she didn’t leave those things laying around, they were in the 2nd drawer of her dresser.
Don’t fry yer vaginaaaaaaaaa. U:
If it was to hot to handle how could you possibly insert it?
Hmmm, while I find the concept intriguing, perhaps a Stirling engine (also steam) would be less…energetic. Other possible improvments would be a ceramic or aluminum heat shield between the engine and operator? While form is nice, function is key.
Vibrators are amazing… 1 in 3 women own one in Australia
Look, to everyone thinking they’re standing up for women’s rights, this is complete nonsense. All this is doing is helping everybody feel better about viewing women as sexual objects- or have I lost touch with the matter? I was surprised how many people shouted me down for this, but a: this isn’t a porn site and I’m not interested in seeing it become one, and b: I live in Thailand, I see a lot of stupid things like this that, while being touted as ‘liberating’ (usually by scum-of-the-earth sex tourists), really are damaging to women, both in terms of their rights and their perceived place and value in society and sometimes physically and emotionally as well- EG, high heels here, over maybe 4 inches, means the girl is a prostitute of some kind (either a bargirl or a streetwalker, whatever), almost completely without exception.
Lighten up,Choscura–go find a girlfriend (or some other form of release) and stop obsessing. Your dark views and repressive attitudes are damaging you more than you realize.
Thanks for the sympathy Bob, but I’m already in a long term relationship, and if I had any more “release” I’d probably implode and die of dehydration.
I’ll confess to culture shock- this kind of thing is completely unacceptable, but only here. where most readers of this site are, sure, I can understand the attitude.
“It worked, but became so hot it had to be held using welding gloves.”
I actually wear those during sexytime anyway, so no real drawback!
I think I’d have it mounted with a gyroscopic positioning system in the event of airborn activity.
That’s just awesome!
its self sanitizing lol
It´d definitely steam punk and really… WOW.. ! Big wow. I like that!