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 flexibility to fall, soar on it and your DualShock would launch right into a by no means ending frenzy of haptic suggestions. It’s an thought the group at Motorbunny is taking to its logical conclusion, including a wi-fi controller for its eponymous trip on intercourse toy that may hook up with a DualSense controller. Its pitch is that you simply’ll be capable to mix getting your recreation on with getting off. And sure, I’m ashamed for writing that sentence.

The corporate was at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, exhibiting 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 taking part in Rocket League. Besides there’s no solution to pull the haptics knowledge from the DualSense, or every other gaming handset, for that matter. As a substitute, it has a built-in gyroscope that may monitor how aggressively you pitch and tilt your controller, and makes use of that data to manage the Motorbunny. This isn’t pretty much as good because the Tony Hawk plan from 2001, however will at the very 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 collection of cheaper vibes beneath 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 utilize to manage your toys. In a single demo, there was a Flappy Chook 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 could be hitting the market within the following months.