Sorry, I’m so American that the only thing I can see is a bullet.
Specially ribbed to get rid of those awful frown lines.
Personally this doesn’t feel like true theyknew material, because this is one of those “this is how they had to advertise because nobody would allow them to say the real purpose of the items” rather than “suggestive thing presented as normal with a lot of rib-to-elbow action and stifled giggles behind the scenes, often hidden from management”
It’s one of those “it fits the literal definition but not the spirit” situations. Idk Maybe it’s just me.
It’ll never not be funny though
In India they’re still advertised exactly like this
Lmao, Amazon India (≧∀≦)
Contoured to use comfortably around eyes, brows, chin and other parts of the body
Wasn’t this supposed to be a facial massager, sir?
Gentle, penetrating massage
“…About seven inches long…”
Ok buddy sure
High impact plastic…
Perfect size for most “purses”
What is “Overheard in the ED more often than anyone’d like to know”?
Two C batteries? That thing is a beast.
Nah, things were much less energy efficient back then.
Not really. Things don’t magically get better just because time has passed. Efficiency reaches a plateau, and the laws of thermodynamics prevent any further improvements.
Since it’s a battery operated device, they’re almost certainly using brushed motors. Those are less efficient than brushless, but brushed DC motors are cheap and easy to run from a DC source. The complex electronics to run brushless motors only got cheap in the last decade or so, and there’s still plenty of sex toy vibrators that use brushed because it’s easy and doesn’t take much space in the device.
The difference isn’t even that big. About 75-80% efficient for brushed, and 85-90% efficient for brushless. The extra complication of electronics isn’t always worthwhile even today. The basic mechanics of this stuff was invented over a century ago and was all but perfected decades before OP’s advertisement ever existed. It can’t be better than 100% efficiency, and it’s already pretty close to that. Unless someone comes up with a really clever design that gets brushless efficiency with little to no additional electronics, there’s not much improvement to be seen.
Batteries, OTOH, have improved by leaps since then.
Interesting information, ty - my electrical knowledge is pretty minimal, basic, and spotty AF since it’s almost entirely self-taught. Only slightly more than those who know nothing, I guess.
I actually wish more devices used C and D batteries as those last longer.
I especially hate when a device uses AAA batteries when AA would easily fit.
My stylus uses AAAA batteries which was the same exact sound I made when AAAs didn’t fit inside.
Also fun fact inside of a 9V is a bunch of AAAAs you can pop out because who the fuck keeps AAAAs on hand
What?? I refuse to believe the blocky 9V is just a few AAAAs in a trenchcoat.
Well, it is. 6 cells of 1.5 V each, wired in series. That’s also why the 9 V block has both poles on the same side.
Last few I’ve pulled apart contained a stack of 6 oblong, coin shaped batteries. Disappoint.
D batteries are fine, but C batteries are not common here. We have 2 cat feeders that use 4 C batteries. If they are empty I need to order new ones on the interwebs, they just don’t have them in stores here. We now have same spare of course. But pretty annoying the first time.
But maybe if they are just in more stuff I can buy them in a store here.
I have a flashlight that uses 4 C batteries and just purchased a rechargeable ones, could that be an option?
I don’t know if this is global phenomenon or just US, but 25 years ago when I lived in Europe C and D batteries were as popular as AA. But yeah, I don’t see much of C and D in local US stores.
I think they meant girthy
Actually not really. Even the D type batteries would have smaller circumference than the average.
Average sized cylinder
It is imperative that the cylinder and the object it is attached to remain unharmed
I meant more in terms of longevity.
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The size of the battery only adds capacity, not power. You gotta increase voltage.
It also increases the amount of current you can draw from the battery at once (the C rating).
Would increase current increase the motors intensity? I guess the motor speed wouldn’t increase, but when you start using the motor, the current would help sustain the speed.
To increase current, you have to either increase voltage or decrease the overall resistance of a circuit. For changing resistance of motors, that usually means changing the windings. Meaning it’s a matter of part selection during design.
What that means is that when they chose a motor, they needed to take into account the C rating of typical batteries available at the time.
The women’s faces, just 👨🍳😚👌
I feel bad for the people who bought them and never thought to use them anywhere other than their face.
Contoured to use comfortably around eyes, brows, chin and other parts of the body.
Gentle penetrating massage.
I dunno if I’d chance it - I heard you can poke your eye out with one of those things…
Nah, it penetrates gently. It’s in the advert.
All I see is that it costs 4,99
I think that hairstyle was popular in the mid-1960s - if I’m right, that’s roughly $50 in today’s money.
Edit: source is https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ using the year 1965, and the official US government inflation calculator seems to concur.
Im guessing the year is 1970. That $5 is equivalent to $31 now.
Bought right for a cheap, but otherwise quality vibrator.
There are Aliexpress vibrators roughly that price right now. They probably break right away, and the plastic is questionable to insert into the human body, but they exist.
Plastic from that era probably has the same descriptors.
It would sure be traumatizing, if I just remembered finding this facial massager with a bunch of oddly interesting magazines next to my parents bed, when I was a young boy…
Sure would be. It was traumatizing enough asking my mother what a minstrel is, and getting a detailed explanation of menstruation instead. Too soon, mom!
LOL
wife-hack of the 50s
and other parts of the body
I’m pretty sure I bought a baby blue one for my gf 18 years ago.
Do we still have products that use completely different advertising on purpose like this ?
I think the Hitachi Magic Wand advertises (or rather used to advertise the last time I looked at it) itself as a muscle massager and doesn’t mention anything sexual.
But it’s probably the most popular wand vibrator people use
Because it was created and sold as a massager not a sex toy and it wasn’t intended to be used in anything sex related, but people used it for sex stuff and it is what popularised the product.
Hitachi rebranded it dropping the company name from the product.
I think, uh, I think that is actually a muscle massager
I’ve used it as an actual muscle massager when I slept wrong and my back is twisted up. It does an alright job, but there’s probably a better design out there.
…have you seen the attachments?..
sure, women enjoy using it on one particular muscle between their legs
at first I was like “wow 5 dollars it’s amazing how inflation hasn’t really done much to that” and then I was like “oh yeah… slaves…”
