O,ROBOT!

摘要

ON A SUNNY MORNING LASTJANUARY, a box truck with see-through walls drove down the Las Vegas Strip, showing off a set of sex toys. The company behind the truck, Lora DiCarlo, had come to town for CES, the Consumer Technology Association's annual showcase. This was the same event from which it had been disinvited just the year before, when its female-pleasure-focused products were labeled "obscene." This time, Lora DiCarlo would get the royal treatment: prime positioning for its booth, panel-speaking slots for members of its team, nonstop party invitations, and scads of glowing press for its groundbreaking debut device-the very one that had been the source of scandal 12 months earlier, a sensual massager called the Ose.