Motorbunny’s PlayMate lets your console (kinda) management your vibe

The next article discusses grownup themes.

There was a legend in my highschool about turning your PlayStation 2 into an ersatz vibrator by making a customized skate park in Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 3. Construct a round grind rail, flip off the power to fall, bounce on it and your DualShock would launch right into a by no means ending frenzy of haptic suggestions. It’s an concept the workforce at Motorbunny is taking to its logical conclusion, including a wi-fi controller for its eponymous journey on intercourse toy that may connect with a DualSense controller. Its pitch is that you simply’ll have the ability to mix getting your sport on with getting off. And sure, I’m ashamed for writing that sentence.

The corporate was at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, displaying off PlayMate, its wi-fi dongle that may management the beefy saddle-style toy. In its demo, the PlayMate was plugged into the USB-C port on the again of a DualSense controlling a PS5 enjoying Rocket League. Besides there’s no approach to pull the haptics information from the DualSense, or another gaming handset, for that matter. As an alternative, it has a built-in gyroscope that may observe how aggressively you pitch and tilt your controller, and makes use of that info to regulate the Motorbunny. This isn’t pretty much as good because the Tony Hawk plan from 2001, however will at the least allow some of us to merge each of their hobbies on the similar time.

PlayMate is one among a collection of merchandise the corporate is releasing, together with a sequence of cheaper vibes underneath the Fluffer label. It is a sub-brand designed to tie within the worlds of gaming and intercourse, with the app even having some arcade video games that you should use to regulate your toys. In a single demo, there was a Flappy Hen clone that may improve the depth of the vibration the longer you had been capable of maintain the chicken within the air. Sadly the corporate wasn’t able to share particulars of pricing and availability simply but, however stated a complete host of merchandise can be hitting the market within the following months.