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Thought no one would notice the orgasmatron5000 eh? I’m onto you. My family once manufactured a sex toy that was popular enough for someone to quit their job,

Thought no one would notice the orgasmatron5000 eh? I’m onto you. My family once manufactured a sex toy that was popular enough for someone to quit their job, so that brought back memories. Sadly the popularity dried up when their YouTube video stopped being recommended as much. It was a real DaVinci-workshop type operation. I’m still amazed how much logistics went into it. Also art ability and sculpting. You have to be able to make molds, which are the inverse of the shape you want to cast. It’s really difficult.

dash2 4y ago
I now have a clear image of the Family Sillysaurusx. Dad is hard at work designing dildos. Mum and the kids have got a production line going. The littlest sculpts the wavy lines on the Cliterminator Pro. Finally, Benjy the dog carries the finished product over to the delivery parcel (unmarked brown paper) and drops it in. Mmmm! What's that cooking in the oven? Do I smell cherry pie?
- sillysaurusx 4y ago
  It was actually for guys, not a dildo. Basically a silicone bag you could fill with water. Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.
  - dotancohen 4y ago
    > Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about > how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Shape of the part that interfaces with the guy's anatomy? I wonder what types of problems? How pliable is the silicone bag? Human women and men come in a variety of interface shapes yet it usually works out. Could different size bags be manufactured?
    - sillysaurusx 4y ago
      Bingo. I wasn't involved directly, so unfortunately this is a game of telephone. This was also back in 2012 through 2015, so it's been some time. But here's my understanding of it. Suppose the problem is to make a silicone bag that you can fill with warm water. That wouldn't be easy, but it'd be much easier. To make something like that out of silicone, you have to pour some material into a mold, and let it sit. (I think the material was called Dragon Skin, but I'm not sure.) Think of it like cooking pancakes: You could imagine pouring this silicone into a frying pan and letting it sit, and you'd end up with a flat disc of silicone. So to make a bag, you'd want it to be a bowl. But of course if you pour it into a bowl, you'll end up with a spherical-ish disc of silicone that's flat on top, because it all pools to the bottom. So your next attempt might be to put one bowl into another bowl, and then pour the silicone between the two bowls. That way the top bowl fixes the problem of it coming out like a flat disc. The silicone is sandwiched between the two bowls, and so you end up getting a shape that looks like the bowl on the bottom. Progress! That's closer to something that can hold water. (Someone just told me that the shape wasn't actually the hardest part. The hardest part was materials. Dragon Skin was just one component. She said it was for the spine, whatever that means. But it wasn't the primary material, which needed to feel right and be easy to work with. I'll just note that here and continue on where I left off above. Basically, it needs to feel like skin, not rubber.) But to get something that can actually hold water, you need it to be something closer to a flask shape. You could imagine a bowling ball inside another, smaller bowling ball, and then pouring the silicone inbetween the two and letting it sit. Question: How do you get the silicone out? The silicone is now wrapped around the inner bowling ball. Hmm. Once you solve all of those problems, then you start to focus on the dynamics of man-woman interaction and anatomy. That requires a mold which you can shape very precisely. I believe they ended up sculpting the molds out of clay, then turning it into something stronger through a process I don't understand. To get the silicone out of the damn molds, they needed to invent a whole contraption that was like a giant lever. It would hook onto the inner mold and pull real hard on it, and pop! The whole thing comes out. It'd be totally impossible to pull it out with your bare hands. Then you run into problems like, there are bubbles in the material, so this needs to be done inside a vacuum chamber to get all the bubbles out. Finally there's the whole problem of putting a bow on it and making it look nice. You need packaging, a manual, and a reliable velcro strap that won't leak water. It needs to look professional. And all of this needs to be scalable so that when you suddenly get 200 orders because your vagina hot water bag went viral, you can fulfill those orders in a reasonable timeframe and get paid. There's a bunch of funny stories from that era. The postal delivery people got super curious about what we were up to. (At this point they'd moved into an actual building, not the family house.) One day he found an excuse to come in, strutting around with a big smirk on his face. Then next time they went to drop off the packages for delivery at the post office, the lady there was like oh, you're the people that make the sex toys! They were like yeahhh, that's us. It was a very interesting experience. It's a shame the business ended up folding due to lack of financing for all the production issues.
- rendall 4y ago
  The retailer, clearly at a loss for words manages to gasp, "That's quite a company. What do you call yourselves?" The staff all strike a pose and shout "The Aristocrats!!!"
  - latexr 4y ago
    For those unfamiliar with the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats
LegitShady 4y ago
the orgasmotron5000 developed from their previous invention, babysnooker.com
KineticLensman 4y ago
"orgasmatron5000 cannot be reached"
dtgriscom 4y ago
Are you saying that the product sold enough so that someone involved could quit their job to produce it, or that someone enjoyed the product enough that they decided to go all in on using it?
- sillysaurusx 4y ago
  The former. They were a single-income household at the time, so it was a big decision. But they sensed that it was their only chance to get wealthy, so they went for it. I really respect that. It's unfortunate it didn't work out, but that's life. They regretted leaving their job and ended up losing the family house, but they recovered after a time. They're now in a job they like renting a house they like. The molds were the heart and soul of the project, since they were the only irreplaceable component. They ended up throwing those into a dumpster. As a final twist, a family friend happened to be working at the trash center and spotted the molds as they were coming through. So even when they were trying to get rid of it like it was a monkey's paw, it still didn't go out without being noticed one last time. One of ya'll should try your hand at it. As with programming, the problems are tough but solvable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667798) and as far as I know there's still nothing like it on the market, with plenty of demand. At one point they were selling multiple color varieties, and people would buy all three colors. I asked if there was any other difference, and he said nope, just color added via dye. So there's a real opportunity for an enterprising sculptor that happens to be reading this. (I don't know much else and I do ML nowadays, so good luck! But feel free to DM for advice I guess. https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/ https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/ was part of the materials they used, but apparently it was too rigid for the skin. It was for internal support.)

dash2 4y ago

I now have a clear image of the Family Sillysaurusx. Dad is hard at work designing dildos. Mum and the kids have got a production line going. The littlest sculpts the wavy lines on the Cliterminator Pro. Finally, Benjy the dog carries the finished product over to the delivery parcel (unmarked brown paper) and drops it in. Mmmm! What's that cooking in the oven? Do I smell cherry pie?

sillysaurusx 4y ago
It was actually for guys, not a dildo. Basically a silicone bag you could fill with water. Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Your description wasn’t far off, by the way! Thanks for the laugh.
- dotancohen 4y ago
  > Getting the shape right was the hardest part, since if you think about > how to mold something like that you’ll run into a bunch of problems. Shape of the part that interfaces with the guy's anatomy? I wonder what types of problems? How pliable is the silicone bag? Human women and men come in a variety of interface shapes yet it usually works out. Could different size bags be manufactured?
  - sillysaurusx 4y ago
    Bingo. I wasn't involved directly, so unfortunately this is a game of telephone. This was also back in 2012 through 2015, so it's been some time. But here's my understanding of it. Suppose the problem is to make a silicone bag that you can fill with warm water. That wouldn't be easy, but it'd be much easier. To make something like that out of silicone, you have to pour some material into a mold, and let it sit. (I think the material was called Dragon Skin, but I'm not sure.) Think of it like cooking pancakes: You could imagine pouring this silicone into a frying pan and letting it sit, and you'd end up with a flat disc of silicone. So to make a bag, you'd want it to be a bowl. But of course if you pour it into a bowl, you'll end up with a spherical-ish disc of silicone that's flat on top, because it all pools to the bottom. So your next attempt might be to put one bowl into another bowl, and then pour the silicone between the two bowls. That way the top bowl fixes the problem of it coming out like a flat disc. The silicone is sandwiched between the two bowls, and so you end up getting a shape that looks like the bowl on the bottom. Progress! That's closer to something that can hold water. (Someone just told me that the shape wasn't actually the hardest part. The hardest part was materials. Dragon Skin was just one component. She said it was for the spine, whatever that means. But it wasn't the primary material, which needed to feel right and be easy to work with. I'll just note that here and continue on where I left off above. Basically, it needs to feel like skin, not rubber.) But to get something that can actually hold water, you need it to be something closer to a flask shape. You could imagine a bowling ball inside another, smaller bowling ball, and then pouring the silicone inbetween the two and letting it sit. Question: How do you get the silicone out? The silicone is now wrapped around the inner bowling ball. Hmm. Once you solve all of those problems, then you start to focus on the dynamics of man-woman interaction and anatomy. That requires a mold which you can shape very precisely. I believe they ended up sculpting the molds out of clay, then turning it into something stronger through a process I don't understand. To get the silicone out of the damn molds, they needed to invent a whole contraption that was like a giant lever. It would hook onto the inner mold and pull real hard on it, and pop! The whole thing comes out. It'd be totally impossible to pull it out with your bare hands. Then you run into problems like, there are bubbles in the material, so this needs to be done inside a vacuum chamber to get all the bubbles out. Finally there's the whole problem of putting a bow on it and making it look nice. You need packaging, a manual, and a reliable velcro strap that won't leak water. It needs to look professional. And all of this needs to be scalable so that when you suddenly get 200 orders because your vagina hot water bag went viral, you can fulfill those orders in a reasonable timeframe and get paid. There's a bunch of funny stories from that era. The postal delivery people got super curious about what we were up to. (At this point they'd moved into an actual building, not the family house.) One day he found an excuse to come in, strutting around with a big smirk on his face. Then next time they went to drop off the packages for delivery at the post office, the lady there was like oh, you're the people that make the sex toys! They were like yeahhh, that's us. It was a very interesting experience. It's a shame the business ended up folding due to lack of financing for all the production issues.
rendall 4y ago
The retailer, clearly at a loss for words manages to gasp, "That's quite a company. What do you call yourselves?" The staff all strike a pose and shout "The Aristocrats!!!"
- latexr 4y ago
  For those unfamiliar with the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats

LegitShady 4y ago

the orgasmotron5000 developed from their previous invention, babysnooker.com

KineticLensman 4y ago

"orgasmatron5000 cannot be reached"

dtgriscom 4y ago

Are you saying that the product sold enough so that someone involved could quit their job to produce it, or that someone enjoyed the product enough that they decided to go all in on using it?

sillysaurusx 4y ago
The former. They were a single-income household at the time, so it was a big decision. But they sensed that it was their only chance to get wealthy, so they went for it. I really respect that. It's unfortunate it didn't work out, but that's life. They regretted leaving their job and ended up losing the family house, but they recovered after a time. They're now in a job they like renting a house they like. The molds were the heart and soul of the project, since they were the only irreplaceable component. They ended up throwing those into a dumpster. As a final twist, a family friend happened to be working at the trash center and spotted the molds as they were coming through. So even when they were trying to get rid of it like it was a monkey's paw, it still didn't go out without being noticed one last time. One of ya'll should try your hand at it. As with programming, the problems are tough but solvable (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667798 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31667798) and as far as I know there's still nothing like it on the market, with plenty of demand. At one point they were selling multiple color varieties, and people would buy all three colors. I asked if there was any other difference, and he said nope, just color added via dye. So there's a real opportunity for an enterprising sculptor that happens to be reading this. (I don't know much else and I do ML nowadays, so good luck! But feel free to DM for advice I guess. https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/ https://www.smooth-on.com/product-line/dragon-skin/ was part of the materials they used, but apparently it was too rigid for the skin. It was for internal support.)