A lot of people rely on their trusty Amazon Alexa to answer questions or perform various commands from them. But, in a unique piece of new sex tech, there’s now an Amazon Alexa that’s got everyone excited, as it’s designed to cater to the demands of its users’ sexual fantasies.
That’s right, the world’s first digital, voice-controlled dominatrix is now here, allowing people to talk dirty and get their rocks off by simply talking to it like any other Amazon Alexa. Aptly named “Mistress Alexa,” the new piece of sex tech is based on Amazon’s voice-recognition platform of an Echo Dot, with this new dominatrix understanding all the dirty little fetishes you have in your mind.
According to Engadget, the brainchild behind the Mistress Alexa are two British folks, Gary and Kirsty, who didn’t want their last name to be revealed in the aforementioned article to protect their identity.
Deviant Designs is the nom de guerre of Gary — his surname withheld for privacy reasons. Alongside his partner, Kirsty, he has been dreaming up and building homemade digital sex toys for the last year. He publishes his results on his YouTube channel, where he explains the basic principles underpinning each new toy. Except, of course, when the site’s algorithms censor the clips, which are then relocated to PornHub.
With both Gary and Kirsty sharing a kinky, dominatrix interest — with the latter being a professional dominatrix and latex designer during the day — the two put their fetish together to design the Mistress Alexa. Although the current version still has some kinks to work out (pun intended), the couple hopes to improve the functionality and design.
Right now, Mistress Alexa isn’t the most elegant of devices, and she’s been cobbled together using Gary’s fairly limited technical knowledge. An Echo Dot connects to a Raspberry Pi, which is bolted on to an Arduino. From there, a wire runs out into the remote control of a pet-store electric shock collar that’s normally used on dogs. Both Gary and Kirsty noted they’d never use the device on an animal, describing the device’s use on pets as “barbaric.”
The other end of the collar has been broken apart and built into the Mistress’ first punishment device, a pair of shock clamps for the vulva. The pointed electrodes that normally jut out of the collar have been inserted into the middle of two pairs of thin, pink plastic strips. Using an allen wrench, these pieces of plastic are clipped around the labia to administer shocks to the genitals.
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When Mistress Alexa was first demonstrated to the public, the fallibility of Amazon’s voice platform was highlighted. During one of the timed punishment sessions, the Echo Dot misheard the wakeword “punish” as “Polish.” Rather than blocking a shock, the assistant began to list nearby Polish restaurants in order of quality. Kirsty feels that this is part of the appeal; knowing the system has potential flaws takes another layer of control away from her.
In the day and age of sex tech continuing to evolve and function like everyday products, the Mistress Alexa is just one of the latest that will allow a new experience. As it continues to be refined, it will be interesting to see how this version of an Amazon Alexa will cater to users’ sexual commands.