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Arnab Chakravarty, Gabriella Garcia

A vibrator that rewards you for creativity, battery charged by making art.

https://pleasureprincipal.me

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This speculative proof of concept explores how behavioral intervention and self-tracking can stimulate creativity, literally. By tuning erotic reward toward art-making, we can recursively elevate both art and pleasure toward the virtue of bringing more imagination into the world, and honor the sexual response system for its purpose of creation. When a user interacts with the drawing app, their time spent doodling is sent to a database which translates to a number of minutes the device will power for.

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