Groovin' gadgets
The SaSi is a customizable vibrator device that comes pre-programmed in different modes, while the OhMiBod ($69) uses the prolific iPod to accomplish the same goals.

You have no idea how the beat of a good song can send you over the edge and the right playlist can make that ride as slow or as fast as the user prefers.

The SaSi ($175) remembers what you like and you can program it to satisfy your needs — taking the usual experience up another notch.

And its appearance is much more discrete than your usual garden-variety vibrator.  (Keeps the embarrassment over the accidental discovery by mom to a minimum.) It will be available in the U.S. in April.

Is virtual sex on the horizon?
So what’s next? Are we headed toward virtual sex anytime soon or are we going to try out some more hardware?

Carol Green, a writer and “cultural sexologist” who has a Ph.D in education in human sexuality, said one technology now in its infancy it to employ a computer “to connect two vibrators and the people using them, across the world.” 

She also thinks there will be progress with "teledildonics" and the idea of using “sensor-packed suits to put us into the action in a porn movie, for example, or even just make love with a partner across distance.”

Green, who is also the co-founder of San Francisco's Center for Sex & Culture, said such changes will take a few more years of technological development, because the tech involved currently in advanced brain scanning methods will likely be the key to opening this currently locked door.

Regina Lynn regularly thinks “outside the vibrator” on her site, including the possibilities of sex with robots.

We’ve seen them in movies for years, played by the likes of Winona Ryder, Sean Young and John Malkovich (did you think we’d forget “Making Mr. Right”?).

They’re actually more human than human — because we can theoretically program them to be.

So perhaps, this is the ultimate in cybersex, something that takes us out of our heads — although some might say that’s where the best sex has to begin — and into a world with walking, talking, fully functional partners who never complain, who live to serve, who would call when you want them to call, and who can be programmed to do better.

Talk about the ultimate hardware.

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