Subliminal Messages

[Dreadsox]

Well, are they out there?

Are products we buy, and the ads we see, powered by subliminal messages?

Do you think they have an effect on us?

Is the center dial on an IPOD supposed to represent a nipple?

thoughts?

 

[verte76]

I think they influence us subconsciously.

 

[Dreadsox]

I think they influence us subconsciously.

What influences you?

 

[A_Wanderer]

I am skeptical, while there may be some experiments in marketing I think that they would be less effective than the word of mouth surrounding their existence.

 

[Dreadsox]

The write up on this one is interesting....

 

[Dreadsox]

obvious?

 

[verte76]

What influences you?

I don't have an ipod or any of this fancy techno computer stuff, so I'm not talking about that. I think certain images on TV commercials were subliminally sexy when I was growing up.

 

[nbcrusader]

Sexy images in print and television advertising are a bit different than the iPod nipple theory (hadn't even thought of that before).

 

[Dreadsox]

Sexy images in print and television advertising are a bit different than the iPod nipple theory (hadn't even thought of that before).

Leave it to me....hehe

 

[Liesje]

Never thought of the iPod as having a nipple before. It looks the way a piece of Apple hardware should look, any other design and it wouldn't look right, IMO.

I can't really think of any subliminal messages off the top of my head, but maybe that's the point?

 

[namkcuR]

They're there. I took a psychology class in my senior year of high school and the teacher spent an entire class period or two showing us ads with subliminal messages.

 

[A_Wanderer]

Do they work? I would tilt towards no given the studiest that have been done.

 

[namkcuR]

Yes. But that class was three years ago, and I don't remember what the ads were that we looked at. I just remember coming away from it with the understanding that they worked.

 

[dazzlingamy]

What could you class as subliminal in adveritisng? Could you say bright colours happy people give out a msg as well? I also have done a class on advertising msgs, but am not so sure they actually work, or are utlised enough. Like sure make something sexy, but does that makes you want to buy it?

Love the ads btw! hehehe and ipod nipple! hahahahaha!

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Don't you mean subliminable?

I believe advertising has far reaching effects on us that we are unaware of, subliminal or not.

As for the iPod nipple,

 

[yolland]

But hey! why bother with subtlety, when you have teledildonics at your disposal?

Experts ponder a future of new sex gizmos, robots

By Adam Tanner
Reuters, Apr 17, 2006

When America's top sex researchers gathered recently to discuss the next decade in their field, some envisioned a future in which artificial sex partners could cater to every fantasy. A field dubbed "teledildonics" already allows people at two remote computers to manipulate electronic devices such as a vibrator at the other end for sexual purposes.

"People who use it are just blown away," said Steve Rhodes, president of Sinulate Entertainment, which has sold thousands of Internet-connected sex devices over the past three years. "This is not something that just the lunatic fringe does. The Iraq war...was kind of a boom for our company."
[ ~y.]

Gina Lynn, who writes the "Sex Drive" column for Wired magazine, says she has used and enjoyed the Sinulator and says there is no reason to fear the technology. "People are still really afraid of...any sort of combination of sex and technology and of the Internet," she said. "What people are missing here is the point, which is the human connection that we are facilitating through the technology."

Entrepreneurs are also seeking to fuse explicit video imagery with real-life tactile sensation. Brad Abram, president of XStream3D Multimedia, said his firm's "Virtually Jenna," an online game in which the player has sex with realistic cartoon of porn star Jenna Jameson, can link hardware devices following the action to genitalia. "None of the big publishers will probably venture in there so we could be like the Hustler or the Playboy or whatever, the Penthouse of adult gaming," the Vancouver, Canada-based Abram said. "Sex toys is a huge business."

His service, without the hardware, costs $29.95 a month, and he said several hundred thousand people have tried the online sex game to date. He expects the hardware area of such simulations to grow rapidly. Is it possible to go a step further and come up with a sex robot such as that portrayed by actor Jude Law in the 2001 film AI: Artificial Intelligence or the Orgasmatron machine of the 1973 Woody Allen movie Sleeper?

Carl DiSalvo, a doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design, has helped design a robotic device that simulates the warmth and feeling of a hug. He said such work could be expanded into the realm of sex. "That hardly seems to be difficult," he said. But "a realistic encounter is where the thing gets to be much more expensive." Companies such as realdoll.com sell very lifelike human-size sex dolls without electronics for $6,500, not including $500 shipping.

DiSalvo is skeptical about the demand for such high-end devices, as is San Francisco sexologist Carol Queen. "I do find that a world full of people getting it on with you know, perfect gizmos instead of each other has some sort of a post-Orwellian kind of sense to it," she said. "I don't really think that most people are going to want this."

Going even a level further, other researchers say in decades to come advanced devices will be able to stimulate the brain to create a sexual experience without manipulating genitalia. Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the study of artificial intelligence dating back to 1951, said such devices could either trigger an actual physical response from the brain, or have the entire experience take place in the mind with the sensation of sex -- but without the mess or risk of sexually transmitted disease.

"It's bound to happen ... and is not as far off as some people think," Minsky, a professor emeritus at MIT, said of direct brain manipulation. "They are doing things with monkeys but it is not a big world-class industry yet, so that could take 20-30 years. But if the game (industry) people got involved in some underdeveloped country that didn't have any laws against it, it could all happen twice as fast."

Some researchers warn that too much fantasy could prove adverse to everyday human interaction. "There is a great deal of pushing people out of social relations into a kind of simulated relationship, which in fact decreases what is essential in human life, which is sociability -- one's capacity to relate to other people," said John Gagnon, a veteran researcher and author on many books on sexuality.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Did Dreadsox invent that?

 

[DrTeeth]

Now I want an iPod.

 

[Dreadsox]

Did Dreadsox invent that?

Well, it has popped into my mind how fun it is searching for songs.....

and


my wife says I have a weird smile whenever I hold the IPod....

hhmmmm

 

[dandy]

Now I want an iPod.

perv.

 

[Dreadsox]

 

[Dreadsox]

 

[Dreadsox]

Does anyone see the frown from thiss weeks lost?

 

[Dreadsox]

Pepsi cans speak out

 

[Dreadsox]

Do you see the naked man in the camel's front leg?

 

[hiphop]

Do you see the naked man in the camel's front leg?

no... where the hell is a naked man in there???

 

[melon]

Dreadsox's avatar is a vagina dentata.

Melon

 

[hiphop]

Dreadsox's avatar is a vagina dentata.

Melon

whats the dial of an ipod without a melon?

 

[A_Wanderer]

Dreadsox's avatar is a vagina dentata.

Melon

define: labia

Is it paradolia or not

 

[Dreadsox]

The words are obvious.....

What is his left hand holding?