{"id":223971,"date":"2010-01-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5455811"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T23:00:00","slug":"massage-me-controller-one-step-away-from-honorable-mention-at-the-avns-massages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/223971","title":{"rendered":"Massage Me &#8220;Controller&#8221; One Step Away from Honorable Mention at the AVNs [Massages]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/massage-me-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_massage-me-1.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>Nope. No way. No conceivable way whatsoever this massage video game controller, called the <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #massageme\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/massageme\/\">Massage Me<\/a>, could be hacked or used in a way that makes it sexual or awkward to use if your parents walked in the room:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/massage-me.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_massage-me.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>You see, while you play your games normally, the Massage Me harness translates those button presses into different massage techniques, which are then used on a partner (or yourself) via the harness.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/massage-me-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_massage-me-5.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>The system works with a hacked PlayStation controller for now, but the design is such that any button mashing controller will work just as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best massages come from playing games that require the player to press a lot of buttons and combinations,&#8221; says designers Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, you coy bastards, indeed. 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No way. No conceivable way whatsoever this massage video game controller, called the Massage Me, could be hacked or used in a way that makes it sexual or awkward to use if your parents walked in the room: You see, while you play your games normally, the Massage Me harness translates those button presses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}