Time Out road-test five of the best sex toys available in the city
With the launch of adult e-boutique Playroom’s ‘Play Sessions’ this month,Time Out road-test five of the best sex toys available in Shanghai
‘Smart Mini Vibe’ by Magic Motion
What Released this month by Shanghai-based company Magic Motion, this ‘personal massager’ works together with your smartphone via an app to bring you a 21st century buzz. You use music, voice and even games to control the vibrations, making your phone no longer ‘just a communication tool but a soulmate’. The background chatting control function lets you experience the ‘remote touch’ of your partner(s) from anywhere in the world via Skype, WeChat and WhatsApp, with three intensities and seven patterns. There’s a plain old manual mode for when your phone runs out of juice.
How much 799RMB
Time Out verdict The most technologically advanced of the toys we tried, this had a sleek Lelo-esque look and is incredibly straightforward to use – even for the most Luddite of lovers. Music-controlled vibrators aren’t anything new (the iPod attachment OhMiBod has been around for years) but the chatting function and custom vibration creator make for genuinely geeky fun. Currently the app is only available for iPhone 4S and newer models, iPad and iPad Mini but an Android app is due to be released by mid-April.