Motorbunny’s PlayMate lets your console (kinda) control 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 thought the crew 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 just’ll have the ability 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 strategy 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 observe how aggressively you pitch and tilt your controller, and makes use of that data 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 identical time.

PlayMate is one among a collection of merchandise the corporate is releasing, together with a collection of inexpensive 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 need to use to regulate your toys. In a single demo, there was a Flappy Chicken clone that might improve the depth of the vibration the longer you have been capable of hold the chook within the air. Sadly the corporate wasn’t able to share particulars of pricing and availability simply but, however mentioned a complete host of merchandise can be hitting the market within the following months.