Sex Toy Review: LELO F1s Developer's Kit RED

The Product: LELO F1s Developer's Kit RED

The Verdict: (out of five)

Isn’t living in the future wonderful? Oh, sure, we don’t have jetpacks (at least not yet) or food pills (thank goodness), but we do have a rapidly growing world of high-tech sex toys. Seriously, what could be better than that?

One of the best that I’ve had the arousing experience to test out is the new LELO F1s Developer's Kit RED.

An Exciting New Take on Sleeve Vibrators

To be upfront about it, I haven’t been a huge fan of these male masturbator devices. If they aren’t powered then why not use a good old (and always satisfying) hand? If they are powered then there’s always been this trepidation about putting something that advertises super-powerful motors anywhere near my favorite organ.

Even when I managed to screw up my courage to try one of these other motorized male masturbators the action felt way too mechanical. Now, I freely admit that there are people out there for whom that's the whole allure of these kinds of things, and I would never criticize anyone for their preferences in anything, let alone their choice of SexTech, but for me they felt far too lifeless for me to enjoy.

Due to this, I felt a bit nervous about trying the F1s—and, let's be honest, putting your dick into anything will usually elicit that response—but after getting familiar with it and its capabilities I can only rave about how much fun it was. It ranks as one of the best male sex toys I've ever tried.

Feeling Those Good Vibrations

While the F1s comes with a heaping helping of cool features, which I’ll get into in a moment, the biggest surprise for me about it was how smooth and non-artificial it felt.

The reason being that while the toy does use motors—two of them in fact—the F1s’s "action" is delivered more through indirect sonic vibrations. This means that even though you’re in contact with some of the hardware, the fun feels far more natural. Think of how your stereo speakers vibrate, same basic principle.

Never once during my time with the F1s did I feel I was interacting with anything harsh or mechanical. Rather, it felt much more like an enhanced organic experience—like what human-plus sex might be like, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Finely Made and a Pleasure to Use

The device itself is quite elegant. With an aluminum body (with one end for you and the other for the controls and the charging port), a lusciously colored and luxuriously smooth silicone sleeve, and even a nifty little window so you can take a peek inside at its fascinating workings, it doesn’t scream SEX TOY, but rather whispers (with perhaps a refined British accent) “fine and elegant engineering.”

Speaking of controls, there are two ways to operate the F1s. The first is using the ON/OFF power button on the toy itself, then increasing or decreasing the vibrational intensity with the plus and minor ones.

Playing with the toy this way I found it to be very comfortable and, best of all, easy to alter the settings. By sliding my finger back and forth across the back, I could find those plus and minus, more vibrations or less, without batting an eye—or getting distracted from what I was doing with the device.

The second way to control the F1s is via the Bluetooth connect app—and here’s where the fun begins because with it (available for Android as well as Apple’s iOS, which I was using) you can not only micromanage the speed, but also control the intensity of the vibrations.

For nerds, such as myself, there was even the extra-added niftiness that through the F1s numerous sensors I could even monitor things like temperature, pressure, how many vibrations it delivered, and even (with its onboard gyroscope) where it is on an XY and Z axis. Pretty darned cool, I must say.

For the Tech-Savvy

The F1s I had the pleasure to test drive was the Developer's Kit Red version, which comes with access to LELO's SDK (Software Development Kit) giving the tech-savvy the ability to do all kinds of fun stuff with the unit, such as linking it to games and programming in their own choice of vibration and intensity patterns.