Welcome to the ninth life of teledildonics and haptic technolgy
Hi, my name is Michael Brook and I'm the founder and chief designer and engineer at PussyMeHow. In fact, for now, I AM PussyMeHow.
I've always been into electronics, but it was always as a hobby, tinkering around with the insides of different devices and gadgets, trying to work out what made them tick. By profession, until late last year, before I decided to follow my dream to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Thomas Edison and Robert Stephenson, I am - was - an insurance salesman. Don't ask me how I ended up doing that for a living!
What I'd always wanted was to be like the guy who came up with Post-It notes, the guy who came up with something that made people stop and say, 'Oh yeah, I could have come up with that,' but only ever after the fact. I wanted to be the guy that came up with a device, with a concept, that was so simple it seemed like it should have already been around forever.
Sometimes, that's just a question of extrapolation, of seeing what's already out there, and spotting the gap.
PussyMeHow - more specifically the Kit.E, the device at the heart of the enterprise - arose from a serendipitous confluence of events. Looking around for interesting, emerging technological industries for ideas, I happened upon the burgeoning wave of sextech companies and was blown away by the incredible array of innovative sex-related devices that were being designed or put on the market.
Now, I'm a cat owner. I love my cat. Cassie's been with me for three years now and we understand each other pretty well. And Cassie is where it all begins. I was busy looking at the latest sex toys coming out of an amazing company called Fleshlight, wondering how on earth I could possibly compete, but it was getting hard to concentrate because Cassie was in heat. If you own a female cat, you'll know what I'm talking about. When a cat's in heat, she suffers if she cannot satisfy the urge to procreate. It always pained me to see and hear Cassie go through this. Now I knew I could have her operated on, but I couldn't help think that this was cruel and arrogant, an example of human beings lording it over the animal kingdom, messing with nature.
What right did I have to alter Cassie's biology. When I committed to get a cat, I signed on for the responsibility that comes with caring for another living creature. I couldn't just cut away the parts that I didn't like. That seemed monstrous to me. So I thought the only thing to do was to learn how to live with it. And I did. But then, looking at all the new sex toys that were becoming available and listening to Cassie's low, plaintive warbling cries, the big idea came to me. And I knew in my heart it was the 'Post-It' idea I'd been waiting for, beautiful in its simplicity: sex toys for cats, to help them get through the mating season without the pain of unrequited necessity.
After a brief look at how the simplest vibrators were designed and functioned, as well as the mechanism behind e-cigarettes, the Kit.E was born, quickly followed by the formation of the PussyMeHow start-up to which Kit.E would belong.
And here we are! It's early days yet, but Cassie and I are agreed... PussyMeHow is here to stay.
I've always been into electronics, but it was always as a hobby, tinkering around with the insides of different devices and gadgets, trying to work out what made them tick. By profession, until late last year, before I decided to follow my dream to follow in the footsteps of the likes of Thomas Edison and Robert Stephenson, I am - was - an insurance salesman. Don't ask me how I ended up doing that for a living!
What I'd always wanted was to be like the guy who came up with Post-It notes, the guy who came up with something that made people stop and say, 'Oh yeah, I could have come up with that,' but only ever after the fact. I wanted to be the guy that came up with a device, with a concept, that was so simple it seemed like it should have already been around forever.
Sometimes, that's just a question of extrapolation, of seeing what's already out there, and spotting the gap.
PussyMeHow - more specifically the Kit.E, the device at the heart of the enterprise - arose from a serendipitous confluence of events. Looking around for interesting, emerging technological industries for ideas, I happened upon the burgeoning wave of sextech companies and was blown away by the incredible array of innovative sex-related devices that were being designed or put on the market.
Now, I'm a cat owner. I love my cat. Cassie's been with me for three years now and we understand each other pretty well. And Cassie is where it all begins. I was busy looking at the latest sex toys coming out of an amazing company called Fleshlight, wondering how on earth I could possibly compete, but it was getting hard to concentrate because Cassie was in heat. If you own a female cat, you'll know what I'm talking about. When a cat's in heat, she suffers if she cannot satisfy the urge to procreate. It always pained me to see and hear Cassie go through this. Now I knew I could have her operated on, but I couldn't help think that this was cruel and arrogant, an example of human beings lording it over the animal kingdom, messing with nature.
What right did I have to alter Cassie's biology. When I committed to get a cat, I signed on for the responsibility that comes with caring for another living creature. I couldn't just cut away the parts that I didn't like. That seemed monstrous to me. So I thought the only thing to do was to learn how to live with it. And I did. But then, looking at all the new sex toys that were becoming available and listening to Cassie's low, plaintive warbling cries, the big idea came to me. And I knew in my heart it was the 'Post-It' idea I'd been waiting for, beautiful in its simplicity: sex toys for cats, to help them get through the mating season without the pain of unrequited necessity.
After a brief look at how the simplest vibrators were designed and functioned, as well as the mechanism behind e-cigarettes, the Kit.E was born, quickly followed by the formation of the PussyMeHow start-up to which Kit.E would belong.
And here we are! It's early days yet, but Cassie and I are agreed... PussyMeHow is here to stay.