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Sex Tech News: RealDoll’s Vegas Move, TENGA Rocket Launch & AI Chatbot of Dead Fiancée

By Jenna Owsianik
July 31, 2021
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What's happening in sex tech this week, including this weekend's Raspberry Dream Land Soft Launch.

Image of Tenga Rocket and two TENGA-themed action figures: TENGA Robo and Egg Dog into the space
A digital rendering of aTenga Rocket and two TENGA-themed action figures: TENGA Robo and Egg Dog. (via TENGA)
  • RealDoll Parent Company Abyss Creations Relocating to Vegas

“Abyss Creations, creators of RealDoll sex dolls, has announced the company will relocate from San Marcos, California to Las Vegas next month. RealDoll earned the 2020 XBIZ Award for ‘Sex Doll Brand of the Year.'

“‘The decision to relocate was set in motion by their exponential growth in the e-commerce business, and the overwhelming response to RealDollX, an AI-driven robotic doll system that has been developed over the past several years,” noted a rep. “This led the company to investigate new ways to expand their manufacturing and corporate facilities.'”(via JC Adams/XBIZ)

  • TENGA and Interstellar Technologies partner to send a penis stroker to space on a private rocket

“On Saturday, July 31, TENGA Inc. and Interstellar Technologies Inc. will send a sex-toy-carrying rocket into space. The rocket is set to launch from the Hokkaido Spaceport. Due to COVID restrictions, in-person viewing is not allowed. However, the event can be streamed live from TENGA’s YouTube channel and Interstellar Technologies’ YouTube channel.

“TENGA creates sex toys for people with penises, like the single-use Egg, a ridged silicone sleeve, and the FLIP ZERO, an elastomer sleeve with a hard casing and the ability to vibrate. It was a toy from the CUP series, however, that was chosen to make the journey to space.” (via Keats Iwanaga/Future of Sex)

A digital rendering of a TENGA sex toy next to a TENGA rocket in space.
A digital rendering of a TENGA sex toy next to a TENGA rocket in space. (via TENGA)
  • The Jessica Simulation: Love and loss in the age of A.I.

“But as soon as he built his first custom bot — a simulation of Star Trek’s Spock, whom he considered a hero — a light clicked on: By feeding a few Spock quotes from an old TV episode into the site, Joshua summoned a bot that sounded exactly like Spock, yet spoke in original phrases that weren’t found in any script.

“As Joshua continued to experiment, he realized there was no rule preventing him from simulating real people. What would happen, he wondered, if he tried to create a chatbot version of his dead fiancee?” (via Jason Fagon/SanFrancisco Chronicle)

  • The Surprising Innovations of Pandemic-Era Sex

“Many [queer] people are reimagining their own boundaries, thinking of this period of virtual intimacies, of distance and little physical contact, not as a lack but instead as a sort of edge play through sexual self-discovery.”(via Madison Moore/The Atlantic)

This Weekend's Events

  • Raspberry Dream Land Soft Launch – July 30 to 31
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“RD Land soft-launch offers artist and educational brand talks and workshops about sexuality, pleasure, technology, erotic possibilities of VR, art and many more by Angelina Aleksandrovich, SX Noir, Adarsh Nellore, Georgia Grace from Normal, Rene Pinnell from ArtizenFund, Alma Ramirez-Acosta from Vibio, and Primal Lust Industries LLC. Laconicfrank, at his turn, will blow your minds with a selection of photographic work of sex parties from the London scene.” (via RaspberryDreamLand)

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Jenna Owsianik

Jenna Owsianik is a Canadian journalist and sex tech expert. Since 2014 she has been Editor-in-Chief of FutureofSex.net, the world’s leading publication on how technology is changing human sexuality, today and tomorrow.

Jenna is the primary author of the Future of Sex Report (2016).

Her expertise covers state-of-the-art sex technologies and the major fields driving innovations in intimacy: robotics, virtual reality, remote sex (teledildonics), immersive adult entertainment, human augmentation, virtual sex, and sexual health.

A trained journalist with a Masters of Journalism from The University of British Columbia, Jenna’s reporting has appeared on Futurism.com, Al Jazeera English, CTV British Columbia online, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS 60 Minutes, Global News, and CKNW Radio in Canada and the United States.

As a sex tech industry consultant, she is especially passionate about helping companies deliver accessible services and products to people with disabilities and other underserved communities.

Jenna also runs the sites SexforEveryBody.com, a sex-positive, body-positive online magazine that promotes inclusive sex education; and DisabledSexGuide.com, an adult resource on sex, disability, and erotica.

In 2013, Jenna won two Canadian Online Publishing Awards for her work on The Pain Project, a multimedia site on global access to palliative care.

She won second place at the 2011 Awards for Excellence in Health Care Journalism’s Public Health category for her participation in the documentary Freedom From Pain.

Jenna has an Honors BA in Women’s Studies and Feminist Research as well as a French minor from The University of Western Ontario. She spent a year studying at L’Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France.
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