This innovative retro-looking plain beige vibe is powered by hand-cranking, removing the need for disposable batteries or electricity use. It's ideal for camping aficionados and anyone committed to a super-green lifestyle.It's made of hard, beige plastic, that's rather body-friendly and safe. I actually love the fact that it looks like a retro 1980s vibe!
It's completely straight, not curved, which produces rather unique and hard penetrating sensations. Unlike a penis or silicone dildo, this will not hug your curves. While it's not quite as unforgiving as glass, it's close, so you can't always thrust super hard. It's of a modest girth, starting with a rounded point with a roughly 1-inch diameter that increases to a 1.5-inch diameter near the base. It has about 6 and 3/4 inches of insertable length, not counting the base. It's about 8.5 inches total.
The vibrations are strong enough, but not out of this world. They are strong enough to get me and most people off, however. If you like the feel of battery-operated plastic vibes usually, then this will work for you, as it produces vibes with about the same strength and feel. It's rather loud in proportion to the strength of the vibes.
The hand cranking process entails about the same level of awkwardness as hand-cranking my self-powered camping lantern. A little plastic handle pops out from the base; it seems too small to be very strong, but holds up well. This is very hard plastic. It's ergonomically made so that you just grab the rotating tip of the handle and make the same type of movement as if you were winding up a spool of thread. Getting the cranking started is the hard part, as there's a little resistance at the beginning, which will resume if you pause the cranking or slow down too much. But if you get your hand in the right position so that cranking can continue without pausing, it's pretty smooth sailing from there. The key is to avoid jerky movements, and it's easy to get a hang of once you get started. The red light confirms that your cranking is powering up the device.
Four minutes of cranking will give you about 30 minutes of vibes, and I've found this to be accurate. Four minutes of cranking will give you about 28 mins of vibes on the high setting. Of course, four minutes of cranking means four minutes with the red light on. The nice thing is that vibes don't lessen in intensity as the battery drains, at least not until near the very end of its life. It can also hold a charge for a while--I went on vacation for two weeks, and it was still charged up. It would be ideal if it had an external meter to show you how much charge it has, but as it is, you have to guess.
Three buttons lined up control the vibes. The central button turns it on and off; the button on the left lowers the intensity of the vibes, and the button on the right increases the intensity. Fortunately, they're not easy to accidentally turn off when holding the handle, but I do find the placement of the buttons a little confusing. It's not ideal for rapidly changing the strength of the vibes until you become familiar with the placement.
The instructions indicate that this toy is not waterproof.
Hard quality plastic is in one of the top safety ranges, but it's not sterilizeable like silicone. Wash with warm soapy water after use, but take care not to immerse it in water, as the instructions guard against it. Although it doesn't take disposable batteries, it does have an internal "power source" which is a rechargeable battery, so discard safely, or you'll un-green it. It looks built to last though, and I doubt many will ever need to discard it.
The simple clear plastic packaging is recyclable, but, of course, carrying that out depends on your local recycling facilities. It's definitely not a keepsake.
Comments
Discontinued?
Looks like not too many preppers out there wanting to buy it...
this would probably be the hugest turn off
this cracks me up. sad that it's discontinued though
why is this discontinued?
why is this posted as a top item if it's been discontinued?
Um.. this is odd..
Dont get me wrong I like to be green but, this might be a little much.
8 minutes of cranking!? Um...no
Interesting!
90$ so I can hand-crank my sex toy? Uh, thanks but I'll just use my hand in the first place... Being green is nice, but that is just ridiculous.
This looks like an eash fit!! RG--
Huh. Nice concept. The only one like it I've seen. I think I'll wait though.
WANT!!!
So white I can't even see it on the page lol
oh? lol
for any one thinking of buying this It is an Extremely sensitive toy On the first one i ordered the base crank came loose and non functional on the inital wind up The replacement for it cranks normally but no long vibrates after only 4 months! I think this type of toy needs to be supported so that designs and functionality will improve but it then dont expect this angel to save you...
neat concept.
so much extra work! lol
Haha, something about this cracks me up
WANT
I like the idea, but I wonder what the lifespan is on this thing?
Oooh, it's like one of those crank lanterns you take when camping.
You have to crank for FOUR MINUTES? That's ridiculous...
Would be nice if the picture wasn't white on white. I can barely see the thing.
so innocent and white
I like it for novelty, not sure otherwise
like it
The crank doesn't look very sturdy.
so cool
This concept is cool not sure I'd buy it but it is a novel idea.
Huh. That is the strangest, most interesting green concept I have seen... cool!
I have a flash light like this. It's actually quite powerful once you've cranked it a bit. I'm just not sure I would want that in a vibrator. Cool idea though!
cool
Don't think I'd be apt to want to crank this up.
i think this is sexy
Haha, hand cranked awesome
I don't think I'd like this. Hand-cranking? I think I'd have a cramped hand by the time I reached orgasm with this! If I'm cranking it, I'd do a better job with my fingers and no "vibrator".
I love the concept! But the simple design is off-putting. I wonder if you could use it with some sort of textured sleeve on top?
Very awesome!
This is such a cool idea!
Neat!
I am not sure if I would buy it as the design seems dull to me, but this is extremely novel! The problem of batteries both in expense and earth-friendliness does bother me. I hope these do well and later evolve into more forms.
This sounds great! I always worry about how many batteries I put into the waste dumps... Also, the description says beige, but this looks pretty much white to off-white to me... Anyone else seen it in person?
Hand crank!? I immediately start picturing a jack in the box.
So cool!
I need this!!
Very cool concept!
Hm.. I dunno about this one..
Neat idea!
Cool green idea.. but sort of an under performer so far. Probably best to wait for a better revised version.
Wow. Good idea, will consider that.
Interesting, but expensive as fuck
very interesting idea.
I have a flashlight that works on the same basis as this. It's a lot of work for light, and I imagine that it would be a lot of work to charge this as well. It's certainly an interesting idea though.