Here’s something that may catch the attention of Fifty Shades of Grey fans out there: an electric condom. But before they get all excited, it’s not a masochistic device. The “Electric Eel” is equipped with electrodes that send mild electrical impulses up the shaft of the condom, or as its creators, two Georgia Tech students, Firaz Peer and Andrew Quitmeyer, describe it, it’s an “open-source digital condom prototype using electrodes and soft-circuitry.” It comes as a contender in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Next Generation Condom” challenge, launched last March.
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