November 2017 Tech Trends Product Reviews

Alice Bonasio
Tech Trends
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8 min readDec 1, 2017

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As we get ready for yet another Christmas, Tech Trends has been testing the latest cool technology for you.

LELO Sona Cruise

This new LELO Sex Toy ‘Uses the Technology of Speakers and Gear-Shifts for the Ultimate Orgasm’. Well, that’s a promise I hope this cool little toy lives up to! Leading pleasure brand, LELO, recently launched a new sex toy that utilizes an entirely unique sonic wave technology that, they claim, can induce orgasm in as little as 2 minutes. For a chap that is not unusual as women everywhere will sadly confirm but how does this work?

There are two variations, the LELO SONA, and SONA Cruise, which features Cruise Control technology, akin to an automatic shift down on the gears as you drive uphill. LELO describes them as ‘sonic massagers’ since they create sonic waves instead of the conventional vibrations used by ‘standard’ sex toys. It’s similar to standing in front of a speaker in a club, and feeling the waves throughout your whole body, just a lot more targeted, Mmmmm. A normal vibrator has a whirring motor inside it that causes the entire body of the toy to rumble, and when you press that against sensitive parts, the nerve endings are directly massaged.

“Vibrating motors offer a big, clumsy kind of massage when you think about it. It’s quite inefficient; a lot of

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Alice Bonasio
Tech Trends

Technology writer for FastCo, Quartz, The Next Web, Ars Technica, Wired + more. Consultant specializing in VR #MixedReality and Strategic Communications