Moaning Lisa Teaches Proper Foreplay

Image: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid;

Shown at the recent Arse Elektronika, a showcase for products and developments that advance the pornographic and sexual technology arts, the "Moaning Lisa" is an interactive game that challenges its players to bring her to orgasm. Evan Ackerman was on hand for the hands-on:

outfitted with seven touch sensors in strategic places, potentiometers (in her nipples), as well as photosensors in her eyes. She has a personality of sorts, in that her reactions are based on an unknown pattern of sensor sensitivity. There are no instructions; the only way to win is through trial and error. She's also quite demanding: if she's ignored, she'll start moaning at passers by to attract their attention.

Arse Elektronika: Moaning Lisa [Oh Gizmo!]

[#1 posted by strider_mt2k , October 8, 2007 6:03 AM]

Let me ask my wife if she has a quarter...

[#2 posted by scaught , October 8, 2007 6:26 AM]

NSFW?

I don't mean to be a prude, but can we tag/hide/link this type of content?

[#3 posted by Anonymous , October 8, 2007 8:27 AM]

I'd like to second the NSFW. All of my co-workers are women and I wouldn't be able to explain that to *any* of them...

[#4 posted by Geno Z Heinlein , October 8, 2007 8:58 AM]

NSFW? I don't mean to be a prude, but can we tag/hide/link this type of content?

Or better yet, can we fix work somehow?

[#5 posted by strider_mt2k , October 8, 2007 9:27 AM]

Won't someone think of the ADULTS??

[#6 posted by Joel Johnson , October 8, 2007 9:29 AM]

I don't really think it's NSFW - it's a mannequin with electrodes for nipples - but I've updated the image.

"NSFWness" is a peeve of mine; I think the acceptance of "worksafe" standards are exacerbating the problem. But I'm sitting at home by myself, not in an office full of prudes, so I will change it this time out of courtesy to you guys.

[#7 posted by Anonymous , October 8, 2007 9:58 AM]

I agree that the whole NSFW debate is tired and annoying, but if it's NSFW I can't look at it at work! ATM work is the only palce I can look at BoingBoing, so it's a touchy thing for me. Of course, I agree that this isn't even a real woman and that should count for something, but to someone walking by or peering around a corner it looks like I may be looking at porn... and that's more than enough to get me in trouble. Thanks for the self-censorship, it's really nice of you to help those of us at work... even though the need for said censorship makes me angry.

[#8 posted by Halloween Jack , October 8, 2007 10:31 AM]

But I'm sitting at home by myself, not in an office full of prudes, so I will change it this time out of courtesy to you guys.

Thank you. My own particular workplace is a hospital, and therefore features quite a bit more information on (and pictures of) the human body than any porn site, but they'd find this sort of thing inappropriate, too, I think.

if she's ignored, she'll start moaning at passers by to attract their attention.

Sounds more like an X-rated version of Bigmouth Bass Billy to me.

[#9 posted by Swervie , October 8, 2007 4:48 PM]

Here's a tangent to the NSFW debacle. You realize that if the above images were screenshots from...hm, let's say The Hills Have Eyes or Hostel -- two relentlesly horrific, albeit entertaining movies -- no one would complain? Better yet, the hospital worker could probably call nurses over to discuss if that bloodletting was real.

But fake plastic naked bodies? nnnnnnnoooooooooo thank you.

Sigh.