William LeClair
If you haven’t been living under a remarkably unsexy rock for the last decade or so, you know that Lovense is a technology company that started in 2010, building Internet-connected sex toys.
The science of Internet-controlled sex toys, teledildonics, was still in its infancy when the Remote Pleasure was released.
Previous Internet-connected sex toys had very poor reception, weak motors, and difficult, awkward online connectivity that made them hard to use.
Dan Liu, the founder of Lovense, was in a long-distance relationship at the time, making a lack of sexual intimacy a real challenge to that relationship.
Lovense improved over the 2010s with the development and maturation of Bluetooth technology.
By the beginning of 2013, Bluetooth connection had matured enough to support data connection with a toy like Lovense, and the second-generation Lovense prototype was in development, to be released in 2013 as the “Max” and “Nora” toys.
With Max developed for penises and Nora for vaginas, these toys are still staple products for long-distance relationships and introduced Lovense’s trademark wireless Internet connectivity.
Improvement in the product line continued into 2016 with the release of the genre-breaking Lush V1.
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