Dildo no dumbo no more

18 May 2016 - 09:04 By SHELLEY SEID

These days it's not only your phone that's described as smart, your strap-on dildo can be, too. This year is being termed the year of sex tech - and now the busy executive can charge her vibrator via Wi-Fi.The latest tech bestseller at The Bedroom, an upmarket adult entertainment store with branches in Umhlanga, in KwaZulu-Natal, and Parkhurst, Johannesburg, is the We-Vibe 4 Plus.The little gadget, which can be controlled from an app, caters for both genders and can please both halves of a couple simultaneously even if they are on separate continents.But the We-Vibe 4 Plus is not cheap - it retails from around R3400.Other tech toys - available online - are the Ambrosia, an ''orgasmatronic" strap-on, and the Crescendo, a silicon vibrator manipulated by smartphone.The latest sex toy to hit the market is the Hum, which uses motion and pressure sensors to "learn" what the user likes and function accordingly...

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