Tickling machines

[LonelyKimiko]

I am a tickling machine.

lmao!

 

[XaviarRkR]

Maybe in year to come it will be possible, but with a machine driven by pure mechanics, its not gonna be easy...

That's probably an accurate guess.


There's a technology in development called "haptics" that replicates sensations via microvibrators (or something else, hopefully not EMS!). I read something about it in the New Scientist mag two years ago. The Japanise were developing a mobile phone that could send sensations with text messages. It said in the mag that the prototype could replicate a slap in the face or a playful tickle.

This web page seems to have a number of companies developing the concept

http://www.sseserver.net/Computers/Virtual_Reality/Haptics.aspx

 

[Stugots]

lmao!

Yes, you would be doing a lot of that if I ever got my fingers on you! You seem to have a difficult enough time just handling my font. Maybe you should re-think your tickling fantasies and have less ticklish ones? 😀

 

[FFY]

Real life tickling machines? Yes, they exist. Me and my GF have been trying (desperately) to contact Tickle Japan (we can't find it though) to see if we can purchase or have built two of the following tickle machines shown below:

 

[LonelyKimiko]

Wow! I wonder if they actually work... Maybe if you were held reeeeeally still.

 

[FFY]

I dunno. I've searched by this site and da Tickling Media Forum and I cannot for the love of me find ANY VID CLIP of these machines (from Tickle Japan) in action! I've also PM'd a few people on da Tickling Media Forum as to what da heck happened to Tickle Japan and do they have an e-mail or not.

They don't know (the clips they got of Tickle Japan's videos were gained via others who gained them via others etc etc). I imagine from how they look that the individual hands move left to right (and possibly up and down) over the victim's body. I wish I knew however if the fingers of the hands moved as well.

I also wish I knew how to buy two of these things from Tickle Japan. (is sad)

 

[nstklr]

I like to dabble with hobby electronics. I have had 2 ideas over the years for tickling machines. While the concept is OK, I do wonder if they would really work.

They are as much of a psycological torment as as a tickling one. I think the 2 combined make it better. It involves a motion detector, timers, contactors, relays and a few other components, and is dependant of the victim having to stay perfectly motionless for a specified time. The tickling device would depend on the victim and what would work on her.

The 2nd one involves those shoes that have those really thick, high soles on them. If one could get the help of someone who does shoe repair to help modify the shoes, it would be a great asset. It involves inserting a surplus stepper motor from a scrap computer floppy drive into the soles of the shoes. That would operate(rotate) a moderately stiff bunch of bristles on the shaft of the motor that would then rub against the soles of the foot.

The machine would be operated by a remote control aimed at the shoes. The idea is the victim wears the shoes in a public area. At any time the ler wishes, he presses and holds the remote button, turning on the motor , and watches as the victim has to endure the tickling sensations in public and try to look natural.

I'm sure it could be done, but it would definitely involve a great deal of time and a willing victim to help out. While I do have some time, I do not have a willing victim, so these plans stay on paper for now. It does make a neat thing to occupy my time once in a while though. Even at my age, I still have a bit of a fantasy life. <grin>

 

[leenotler]

I was a tickle machine victim (sort of)

I really was a tickle machine victim. Well, sort of, OK, an exagerated claim from a newbe. But I really was in trouble. Some time ago, I had just put my brand new pager in vibrate mode at work. As I bent over the sink in the restroom, washing my hands, the pager on my belt was pushed against my stomach. It went off. I didn't want to turn it off with wet soapy hands, but it was tickling me enough that I had to struggle to stay bent over the sink to rinse my hands. I actually started to feel a little weak in the knees. Standing up provided some relief as I dried my hands and turned the thing off. I was careful with it after that.

I don't recommend duct tapeing pagers all over you and publishing their 1-800 numbers. Still, it might be interesting to have a tickle-suit of tight spandex with stratigically placed, strong, small vibrators with random timers, or a remote control. I can imagine a remote control like the ones for model airplanes, with joysticks controlling the location, speed and intensity of the vibrations. You would "fly" the tickles around your victim, and each vibrator would light up when activated to help you navigate. That would provide the human feedback element. (Imagine the sporting possibilities. I would love to see a foot race with tickle-suited runners and the controls in the hands of the opposing teammates.)
It would also be interesting if the suit could measure body position or muscle activity. That might be enough feedback to automate the tickling.
I think I could build such a suit, but it sounds hard and expensive to do and I don't really know if it would work well. Maybe just a wide, high belt and a few vibrators could be practical. A crude prototype could be made with some wired remote vibrators and a stretchy bicycle shirt. I'm half tempted to try it.
Or, maybe someone could modify one of those fancy power massage chairs and put seat belts on it.

 

[steph]

I agree here w/Ness~why would you go to the trouble of creating a machine when I have men to do this to me???
XOXO

Its an interesting fantasy or subject for art but in reality it'd never work.
A machine lacks the ability to vary location/pressure to suit the moment and that would kill it's effectiveness completely. Eventually you'd just end up desensitized and/or really sore in the one spot that it lept hitting.
Any and all pictures/videos I've seen of people attempting this have failed spectacularly and ended up looking gimicky and fake.
Like I said, interesting fantasy, but don't bother to look for it in the real world. Stick with what the good lord gave ya, eh?

 

[Kalamos]

What about... *ticklish* machines??

-> http://www.tickletheater.com/showpost.php?p=117138&postcount=27
-> http://www.tickletheater.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=36702

...

😀 😀 😀

 

[leenotler]

(The post failed? I hope this is not posted twice.)
I loved Kalamos's wmv file of a machine being tickled. I would love to tickle torture my computer when it misbehaves. I'm a technophile (not in a kinky way, so far) but we do have to be careful not to let the machines take away or complicate simple fun (too late: video games, etc.).

If we can't figure a way to make a tickle machine enhance our experience rather than detract, then we shouldn't build it. Except we engineers can't stop. Someone will make an effective tickle machine, at least as a novelty. Hey, at least it's not a new doomsday weapon (or is it?, maybe I could pitch "Atomic Tickle Machine of DOOM" to MTJ Publishing.)

I still secretly think I can build one, but only if simple vibrations are ticklish enough. I have the background in electronics and software. Someone should probably stop me.

 

[Kenny Xiraka]

I'mma agree with Ness on this. There's no way to program something with all those factors you have to take into consideration. It wouldn't work.

 

[FFY]

What about those tickle machines from the pics I posted on this thread? Do they not work? Are the asian woman who are being subjected to them not really being tickle tortured? If they are (takes deep breath) HOW CAN I GET AHOLD OF TWO OF THESE MACHINES? PLEASE! THEY LOOK SO COOL AND WOULD PROBABLY WORK WONDERS ON MY GF! ^_^

 

[Kenny Xiraka]

I'm sayin one that doesn't disable movement and leave you spread out or in one position where you can't move to save your life.

 

[leenotler]

A simple belt-on vibrating tickle machine would never replace human fingers, nor should it. Any machine more complicated might be dangerous.
You might not need to be strapped down if the machine moves with you on your belt. Maybe it would never work or only work a little with a nearby human operator (who could more easily use fingers). Maybe it could be an augmentation to cyber-tickling, not a major tickle, but something.
I just can't forget how much my vibrating pager accidentally tickled me.

The plastic hand tickle machines look fake to me, but I could be wrong. You could experiment by trying to imitate one with a plastic hand on a stick. Move it machanically and don't change with responses by the victim. I doubt it works. Maybe the plastic hands were attached to vibrators and spring loaded to contact the victim. You could put a vibrator on the stick. Still, I suspect a victim would get used to any constant motion.

It still might be a noble experiment to try to build one. If it fails, it fails.

 

[Sablesword]

Making a late comment on an earlier post:

I personally prefer monsters (going back to Gazooks, from Raggedy Ann, in my formative years 🙂 ), but I like machines too.

The line between "monster" and "machine" can be a blurred and fuzzy one: What about robots or AI computers that tickle - monsters or machines? Or both? Or what about genetically engineered tickle organisms (e.g. "Tee Pods")?

And then there's the other fuzzy border between "monster" and "alien being" (or "non-human" - e.g. elf - in fantasy). The centaurs of my "Centaur Tickling" stories are technically monsters even though they're also very nice people.

 

[LonelyKimiko]

It's all very ambiguous!
By the way Sable, when you coming up with some more great stories?

 

[Sablesword]

It's all very ambiguous!
By the way Sable, when you coming up with some more great stories?

When the Muse strikes 🙂

I did post a couple of stories recently ("Isabeau Tickled Green" and "The Ionian Stocks"). Maybe they're not "great" stories, but they're the best I can do on short notice. :cyclopes:

But at the moment I'm working on some non-tickling bondage stuff - a drawing & some stories. And noodling in the background for the next few installments of "Hyperticklish" which, hmm, I've posted over in TMF but not here. Yet.

And to get back on the thread topic, the "Hyperticklish" series does have a goodly amount of tickle-machine tickling in it.

 

[LonelyKimiko]

Coolness 😀 . I'll have to go check for your stories later on then ^_^ .

 

[Triple T1]

I made a tickler years ago that consisted of a 12rpm motor(from the Edmund Scientific catalog)with a homemade support at the top for feathers.The best feathers to use, by far, where very short ostrige feathers.I also constructed an ajustable arm made from a small(electric) boat motor mount and could attach it anywere on the bottom bed frame so it could be used to torture diffrent body parts.My freind Nancy tickled one of her freinds with it and she could'nt take it for 10 seconds without giving in.One of her other freinds thought it only felt good, but unlike the first victum,he was not restrained.

 

[LonelyKimiko]

Coolness! Do you have any pictures of the contraption?

 

[Sockstickler]

And maybe some blueprints? 😎

 

[LonelyKimiko]

And a free sample?

 

[conehead180]

And free shipping and handling?

...sorry, after reading what everyone else said, I kinda got into the moment.

.....so, free shipping and handling, right? 🙂

 

[LonelyKimiko]

I'll pay for the shipping. I dont mind doing the "handling" myself 😀 .