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title: Mobile phones are sex toys
date: "2003-04-14T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 935
description: Explore an early 2000s trend where mobile phones were repurposed as vibrators. This 2003 Wired report examines how users leveraged vibrating alerts for sexual stimulation, highlighting an unconventional intersection of telecommunications and personal intimacy.
keywords: [mobile phones, vibrators, haptics, technology trends, telecommunications]
---

[A new use for mobile phones](http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58442,00.html).