The Man Machine

[Arbiter]

What symbiotic devices do you have in your house?

Foot Massager

Every night, I use my foot massager machine for twenty minutes and watch a relaxing video on YouTube with my headphones on before I go to bed and sleep. What a euphoria.


Toaster

Every breakfast, I heat up malty seeded bread until it is crisp and browned and I apply a slice of corned beef with mustard before my favourite prune yoghurt. What a start.


Hand Massager

When I remember, I slide my hand into my hand massager machine which compresses my hand repeatedly for twenty minutes to stimulate blood flow and guarantee relaxation of the hand after a long day working hard and also playing computer. What a hand.


Shoe Horn

Is there a rarer pleasure than delivering your toes, heel and main foot into your lace-up shoes with a mechanical horn to ease the transition? If so, please share. No more agony. No more worries.


The ecstasy of engineering. Please share similar.

[Dex Sawash]

Don't want to say what it is/does but it smells terrible

[Video Game Fan 2000]

glasses

exercise bike

propelled injectors because im too much of a big girls blouse for syringes

self sharpening mechanical pencil

guitar tuner

shaver

[Dex Sawash]

(bin with motorized lid)

[Arbiter]

Nose and Ear Hair Trimmer

When I look good, I feel good and nothing feels so good as crimping wiry hairs from in and around my ears down to the stump. That a person invented this for our pleasure, wow, that's really something.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Don't want to say what it is/does but it smells terrible

Since when was a dog with no nose some kind of machine?

[Sebastian Cobb]

Bodum coffee grinder
Heated throw
Arizer Extreme Q vaporiser

Doesn't get used daily but my instant pot gets a good bit of use. Mostly for quick biryani's.

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

Hand Massager

When I remember, I slide my hand into my hand massager machine which compresses my hand repeatedly for twenty minutes to stimulate blood flow and guarantee relaxation of the hand after a long day working hard and also playing computer. What a hand.

yeah, "hand" "massager", riiiiight

[JesusAndYourBush]

None of the things in this thread are symbiotic.

[Arbiter]

None of the things in this thread are symbiotic.

Whatever pleasure I get from these devices is only matched by the reciprocal joy I return to them.

[Blumf]

Not in the house, but whenever I take my car out, I spank it, and it loves it.

[Zero Gravitas]

I slide my hand into my hand massager machine which compresses my hand repeatedly for twenty minutes

Sounds debatably relaxing.

[thenoise]

wife

[Arbiter]

Sonic Toothbrush

If you never treated oneself to a true deep clean of the teeth, gums, tongue and throat with a sonic toothbrush, you've simply never tasted clean. The last thing I want is to turn up for employment and my boss to see what I have not finished eating between my teeth. This is the greatest start to the day and the main reason I fear prison. You can't form a parasocial relationship with a regular toothbrush.

[madhair60]

Asa Akira videos

[madhair60]

sorry I thought that was the search bar.

[Blumf]

Has Asa Akira started doing long form vids talking about culture from a philosophical view point?

[Gurke and Hare]

Okay, I'll be the one to be honest: a Hot Octopuss Pulse

[jobotic]

Okay, I'll be the one to be honest: a Hot Octopuss Pulse

"Penis owners".

JK Rowling is throwing things around the castle, screaming with rage.

[Poirots BigGarlickyCorpse]

Okay, I'll be the one to be honest: a Hot Octopuss Pulse

I'll bet at least one person's hollowed out a giant teddy bear and stuck that up it.

[Dex Sawash]

#kindnesstoanimals

[Elderly Sumo Prophecy]

Electric Toothbrush

I turn it on and put it up my arse.

[flotemysost]

Okay, I'll be the one to be honest: a Hot Octopuss Pulse

I can't not see the logo on that as a Royal Warrant.

(Always used to amuse me when they crop up on labels for everyday, pedestrian-seeming products like, say, tins of beans - just because the thought of some Palace lackey going "your fry-up, Ma'am" and solemnly proffering a greasy breakfast on a silver service platter is mildly funny to me - but this one... nah let's not think about it, eh)

Sonic Toothbrush

If you never treated oneself to a true deep clean of the teeth, gums, tongue and throat with a sonic toothbrush, you've simply never tasted clean. The last thing I want is to turn up for employment and my boss to see what I have not finished eating between my teeth. This is the greatest start to the day and the main reason I fear prison. You can't form a parasocial relationship with a regular toothbrush.

This sounds great. Not quite so high-tech, but I'm currently in the grip of a hopeless dependence on the double-stranded mini flosser thingy - it just hits different, as they say. A new level of interdental rigour. Feels wrong not to have them within easy reach now.

I realise all that (recycled/recyclable, at least) single-use plastic isn't particularly great, but I'm going by the logic that when the eventual heat death of the Earth is nigh we will most likely need functioning teeth in order to fight over whatever's left, so I think it's fine.

[thenoise]

Has Asa Akira started doing long form vids talking about culture from a philosophical view point?

Bit of a niche fetish but I'm in no place to judge.