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There's still other male focused, male backed/created sex toys/objects, and the yearly VR porn experience/demos for guys at this year's CES 2019. Would make sense if they were trying to clean up CES and blocked all adult orientated products, but unfortunately the fuss is coming over the fact that they only blocked the female owned company, created by female engineers, made for females adult product. All the male focused adult products and male owned company created products are still at this CES.

having a lack of discrimination would be empowering, as everyone would be equal and able to things they wouldn't be able to do with discrimination.

They do explain that in the press release. But the forum replies seem to be skipping over that particular statement when they see the word "empowering" afterwards in the same press release from the company

It could be also that Nvidia isn't censoring him, it's just they probably don't appreciate having their press samples ripped apart as Steve usually does with all the cards they review. Unlike the board partners, Nvidia review samples are generally sent out and returned and forwarded to other reviewers. We have seen this before in some of Jayztwocents videos where he received a product that was obviously previously reviewed by someone else before him (had excessive wear and tear, etc). So basically Nvidia just wants their cards reviewed, benchmarked, and lavished with praise.. Not have the card torn apart, disassembled, heatsinks removed, die exposed, PCB design/layout made public and/or scrutinized, and high resolution photos posted online showing off all the components used, etc. Especially with the making PCB layout public and posting of high resolution photos, especially of the various chips and components used, some companies really like to keep that stuff private until release to prevent competitors or Chinese bootleggers from having easy access to this pre-release. Lastly another reason why Nvidia wouldn't want their cards ripped apart and it's PCB layout scrutinized is possibly that the reviewers got an early sample of the card that isn't the finalized PCB layout/revision that's sold to the public, so it doesn't serve Nvidia well if reviewers are showcasing what's under the heatsink of it's not a finalized production pcb yet.

Well this is technically true.. I bet $1000 dollars there do exist cheap knock off chinese monitors out there that claim they support Freesync and are actually officially are branded with the Freesync logo, but have issues with it.. Hell, even my own monitor made by Samsung (CHG70) which has the newer Freesync 2, wasn't a good Freesync monitor fresh out the box and had a narrow Refresh range, and required multiple firmware updates to correct this at the cost of some brightness in one of the updates. So from my own experience with my own monitor, I can understand and believe Nvidia's claim, as G-Sync monitors are 100% fully tested and ready right out the box for all capabilities of G-Sync, everything from 1Hz up to the monitor's rating. Unlike Freesync, where it's all dependent on the Manufacturer and they decide what range their monitor supports (it's the wildwest). Even my own monitor doesn't push the support as much as Nvidia does, the lowest end of Freesync mine does is only ~40-144, when it shipped, it was something abysmal like 100-144, so that means unless you were pushing high framerates in all games, your freesync would fail.. So yeah, there's no strict standards on the Freesync side, as there is with G-Sync, so as a result you definitely will get off brand monitors that claim they support Freesync and are officially licensed, however fail to mention that their freesync support is only in a narrow framerate range.

Yep, the one shown is fake, VHS tapes require the motor that spin it's sprockets/reels to rise up into it, etc. So obviously the person who photoshopped this failed to account for that. Here's the photo of the real thing if you wanted VHS on a laptop back then: or on Mac:

The empowering statements aren't in regards to the fact that it's a sex toy, rather they stem from the fact that apparently the product is made by a female owned/fronted company, and the bulk of the research & development and the engineering teams of the product are female. So in other words, it is pretty much made by females for females, especially when you consider that most (if not all) female sex products currently on the market were made by men for women and likely made by male owned/fronted companies with chiefly male R&D and Engineering teams, etc.

As a wise man once said, boys make better girls Can't forget that one time... https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/caitlyn-jenner-at-women-of-the-year-awards-never-thought-id-be-here-20151011/ This all occurred before CES even opened to the public. The company's award and their invite to attend CES to showcase their product was all rescinded back in October and November 2018, but didn't make the rounds with the mainstream news outlets until CES had begun. So obviously they weren't "sneaking" into parts of the CES floor they shouldn't have been, etc. Here's a news article that shows the letters the company had received back in 2018, etc, and without the gender-heavy rhetoric, etc that the more mainstream outlets are leaning into: https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/08/lora-dicarlo-says-ces-wrongly-rescinded-award-for-micro-robotic-sex-toy/

This year's CES does still feature products from the various male-focused sex companies, such as the VR porn demonstration booths as they have every year over the past few years now, and there's some other various random sex toys at CES, such as an Apple Watch connected sex toy (vibrator) which your partner controls, etc.. The only main difference between those products, products showcased in the past, and the female one that was banned. Is this product is essentially made by women for only women, unlike the other adult products at CES which are made by men for men or made by men for use by women but intended to be controlled by a male partner. "CTA officials have traditionally been fine with sex tech firms showcasing their latest toys and gadgets." The more you look into the topic, when you get past the gender-bias rhetoric, etc, to me it sounds more like some high-official at CES just had an issue with a female-focused sex product and/or thinks female-solo focused sex products are too taboo, even still in this day and age, but absentmindedly forgot that CES had and has male-solo focused sex products currently shown at CES, and possibly wasn't reminded about this until after the fact.

Google search is your friend, rather than claim "I dont know of any [insert words here] that have been featured at CES in previous years" Also excluding adult entertainment products from CES isn't something CES should do, since many adult entertainment innovations falls well into the electronics space.. especially when you consider things such as VR Porn and the innovations with porn experiences that are very current-tech centric. Plus the amount of real engineering, research and development that go into some of these various products are far more worthy of merit than just a boring refresh of some previous tech product that are featured year after year at CES that isn't really innovative in it's field (i.e. a boring Intel refresh of a graphic chipset no one really wants or asked for). https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/oregon-startup-lora-dicarlo-raises-1-1-million-for-revolutionary-new-sex-tech-product/ Overall, it's an 18 and older event, and obviously sex focused products shouldn't be on the main show floor, but just relegated off to a side as it has been for years now with the past adult product exhibits at CES.

The counter-argument to that claim that the CES official made, was the fact that the male sex toys in the past were given awards under the various categories they have at CES. IMO the robotic category it was under makes sense since it is microrobotic tech and was made with a partnership with Oregon State University robotics researchers. Furthermore, "the took it back for moral reasons" holds no water when you consider that CES have given awards to male focused sex products; sex robots and sex entertainment products for men. Plus not only did the CES officials take away their award, they took away the company's space and banned their product from being showcased, even though they still allow male focused sex products to be showcased at CES.. While I can somewhat understand their taking away the award if it was unfortunately in the wrong category, and should have instead been under a health and well being category or whatever category the male sex products were under that won awards at past CES events, what I can't understand is CES going a step further and blocking the company from showcasing their product at CES then worse of all, going out of their way to further insult the company by calling their product immoral, vulgar, etc, yet they literally allow sex robots and other various male sex products to be showcased at CES and have zero issues with that. This fact alone here is some clear evidence of gender-bias imo. Lastly to add, this year at CES 2019, one of the CES exhibitors are literally shuttling men to one of Las Vegas' legal brothels to showcase an Amazon Echo powered video-sex experience.

It's also made it's rounds through other outlets, Fortune, Guardian, Forbes, PR Newswire, NY Magazine, Business Insider, Huffington Post, etc. I just happened to just link the BBC news article. But feel free to look up the many others.

Apparently CES 2019 rescinded an award and blocked a company from showcasing the robotic Ose sex toy for women, further calling it vulgar, immoral, etc, yet in past and at the current CES they have allowed male focused sex products to be showcased and have given out awards to in the past (i.e. sex robots and toys for men, VR Porn for men, etc). Link to the original news story: https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/08/lora-dicarlo-says-ces-wrongly-rescinded-award-for-micro-robotic-sex-toy/ Link to one from the BBC (Caution: be a bit gender rhetoric heavy compared to the above link): https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46809807 Overall, it sounds like some gender-bias to me, for them to allow male focused sex products at CES and have given awards for in the past years and still currently allow even this year in 2019 there's other sex toys and the usual VR porn demos at CES, however block a female focused product, even one whom the CES 2019 judges vetted/reviewed and were going to give an award to based on it's robotic tech, especially since it was made in partnership with Oregon State University's Robotics and Engineering department as this device uses innovative micro-robotic "mimicry" to mimic the feeling of various parts of the human body. This is something I think may be worth a mention on The WAN Show if there's one about news surrounding CES 2019. P.S. For those who think CES blocked this product simply because they want to not have adult products at CES anymore... this year's CES showcases a vibrator for men called Tentuo, company Naughty America is utilizing AR to overlay Stripper Poles into your environment along with "holographic" strippers to occupy those poles, there's an Apple Watch powered vibrator for ladies which a male partner has control over, then there's also the yearly showcased VR Porn booths/experiences, and one of the exhibitors were literally shuttling men off to one of the nearby legal vegas brothels for an Alexa/Amazon Echo powered porn experience. So in otherwords, if it's for males and made by males, it's A-OK at CES. A bit of insight to this year's sex toys at CES 2019: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-sex-toys-vegas-tech.html however there's a lot more begin shown at CES this year than what this article is focusing on.