Japanese vibrator simulates the feeling of being shot or stabbed. Well that's not a fun kind of vibrator at all.

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Japanese vibrator simulates the feeling of being shot or stabbed. Well that’s not a fun kind of vibrator at all.

You ever been shot or stabbed? Do you want to be shot? I guess if you really want to, it could be arranged. But a less messy and far less lethal solution would be a pair of Japanese vibrators that work in tandem to produce the feeling of something passing through your body. Not quite the vibrators you might have been hoping for, but it’s an interesting phenomenon. The vibrators, not getting shot.

When two separate points on your skin are stimulated (i.e. touched) in the same way at the same time, it can sometimes feel like the space in between those two points is being touched at the same time, even if it isn’t. A research group at the University of Electro-Communications in Japan has taken advantage of this “phantom sensation” and created a device that can be used to simulate the feeling of an object passing through your body.

By strapping two vibrating motors to the top and bottom of your hand, this gadget can make you feel like a ball (or whatever) is falling straight through your hand and out the other side by carefully changing the frequency and intensity of the vibrations. If the motors get cranked up high enough, the researchers think that they can even simulate the feeling of being shot or stabbed.