Customs Officials Seize $774K in ‘Hazardous Massage Devices’

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Originally Posted by RawAlex

It sort of pays to read the whole story. The sexual devices themselves were not defective, only the "wall wart" power supplies they were using. There is no indication that the maker of the sexual toys was also the maker of the power supplies. Judging from what I have seen in China, the power supplies would have been purchased from a third party company, likely sold with the assurances of the UL label (which was faked).

So it could have been "Sex toys" or "computer speakers" or "electric shavers". It doesn't have much to do with sex toys, except perhaps that they got an extra look by the perverts at customs looking for a thrill.

Yes, I read "the whole story." And here's my thoughts on that......
we're talking about an electrical shock device. Anytime you have a "wall wart" powering any type of "sex toy," you have the potential for lethal levels of voltage shooting through the toy. And, unlike batteries, there's "no theoretical limit" to the amount of current that can spike through the product, and through your body. This is bad enough with a dildo, but with a product handling voltage from the source supply, and in some manner, directly interacting with your body? Then Yes the "wall wort" is an integral component to this system. Any company that would allow an untested, and fraudulent device to be packaged with their product is criminally negligent. period.

The dirty little secret in the adult industry "sex toy" biz, from an engineering standpoint, is, they use batteries with their product for more than simplicity. The designs are usually so poor and inefficient that they use the batteries as a "poor man's current limiter" in the circuit. A really good rule of thumb is, the larger the battery size? the poorer the quality of the engineering.

ie: a vibrator using button cells, or "AAA" cells is probably made better than a dildo using "C" or "D" cells.

(Our "Made in USA" product, which was engineered here, built here, and shipped from here, has -zero- cases of any kind of this damage, and -zero- cases of liability, in the more than a decade history of the product.)

Why? Because it's properly engineered to insulate the user from any chance of lethal voltage exposure.
(we also carry UL and international stamps on our power supply....including Canada, for you Canadians... :-)

"fried wiener" is a bad thing!