SHAPE Servcies "Massage Vibra" converts phone into personal massager
By Sean Cooper 
posted Nov 27th 2007 10:22AM
posted Nov 27th 2007 10:22AM
SHAPE Services Massage Vibra software uses your handset's vibrate function to help to rid you of your aches and pains. Featuring massage programs for just about any part of the body -- arms, chest, back, neck and so forth -- the MIDP 2.0 software even has a wizard mode replete with text instructions and graphical illustrations. The list of supported devices can be found on the SHAPE Services site, but for $3 it seems like a novel bit 'o software that may well be the solution to what ails ya.[Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog]
Aches and pains?
*smirks*
That won't be the first use that pops into everyones head.
Definitely. This was only a matter of time.
Let's just wait a couple of years and next to our camera phones and music phones, we'll have "pleasure phones": devices with physically comforting designs and big-assed batteries to help you through those long "pain-filled" nights. It'll be a fresh take on the "MultiTouch" concept.
Unless you happen to be over 14 years old.
Sorry, way off, buddy. Last I checked, plenty of people older than 14 were still interested in physical relations; if that's not the case for you, that's fine, but it doesn't make you better than the rest of us.
No but then when you mention vibrating plastic to people not everyone instantly thinks of a sex toy. Sports people know the benefits of a massager when dealing with aching muscles.
Also whilst people over 14 may have physical relations thy don't snigger whenever anything sexual is mentioned.
"No but then when you mention vibrating plastic to people not everyone instantly thinks of a sex toy."
Sextoy? byaah didn't say sextoy. Actually, its you who said sextoy :)
This is the same company that makes the fantastic IM+ Instant Messenger. I assume the Massage Vibra software will probably crash every 30 seconds too, making it a bit of an underwhelming stress relief.
So now a clamshell phone really will smell like clams...
My wife is gonna love this vibrating phone on those lonely nights when Im away on a business trips.
Not as much as she loves me on those nights...
Heres a thought ... if you actually need something for that reason, Why not spend the $10 and get a small vibrator?
Because that would require them being old enough to actually go into a shop that sells them or to own a credit card to buy one mail order. Would also require them to be able to look at one with out having to put their hand over their mouths to hide the inane giggling ala Beavis and Butthead.
No seriously, I think they market it in a wrong way (except that it is good marketing for the company). It should be sold exactly as sextoy, the vibrating patterns should be named "smooth ride", "warm tingle" and "heaven", and should cost $29.98 (most sextoys cost x9.98 :) )
THEN it would sell much better.
Sweet! now I don't actually have to keep a vibrator in my purse!
Yet another reason not to hold a phone against your head...
Hrm, something tells me that people are going to start abandoning those tiny little RAZRs in search of those old, massive Nextels.
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Urgh, I'd to be the person calling interrupting an "aches and pains" curing session.
Most disturbing engadgetmobile comments... ever!
But that's a good thing ;-)
Purring Kitty was out in 2003. This is not a new idea.
Wired article from April of 2003
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2003/04/58442
Purring Kitty
http://www.vibelet.com/
And why isn't this on Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: for her?
For that matter, why wasn't it in Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: for her?
....you know, because it's to "help to rid you of your aches and pains," and any gender can appreciate that.
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BTW, what's with that picture of just ONE hand? Who the hell gets massaged with just one hand? We all know what they're really pushin' here.
And why isn't this on Engadget's Holiday Gift Guide: for her?