Someone sent me a link to the OhMiBod as a joke. I didn’t think it was funny, though; the idea of synergistic music and vibes and sexual pleasure totally intrigued me, and I knew I must have one! I placed my order that day.

Sadly, while the idea of the OhMiBod is fantastic, this application of that idea is seriously lacking. The OhMiBod is far and away the cheapest and most poorly made vibrator I’ve ever owned.

It’s made of cheap, brittle plastic. The two end caps (one for use with the ipod, one for use as a stand-alone vibrator) are both plastic that’s painted with silver paint. The insertable shaft is hard brittle white plastic. I think that the only reason it hasn’t broken yet is that I don’t use it enough to break it.

The vibrator itself is less than desirable. It’s got a fairly cheap motor that doesn’t deliver the kind of power I want in a vibrator. It’s also LOUD…loud enough that I’m pretty sure my house mates could hear it through my closed door.

Luckily it’s meant to be used with music, so I can put the music on my computer speakers and vibe away with the sound of the vibrator drowned out by music (I hope).

It eats batteries. No matter how careful I am to turn it off fully, the next time I get it out, the batteries are dead. The only solution is to remove them after use each time. That’s lame.

Now, if the OhMiBod delivered what they advertised, vibes that really groove with the music, I could probably at least partially forgive the above shortcomings. Sadly, it fails here as well. I was envisioning that the vibes would pulsate and change intensity with the music. But what it really does is vibrate at one frequency, and just turns on and off with the beats. And it’s darned insensitive to the beats. While it does pulsate on and off with certain types of music (music with a very strong drummy/bassy beat), I find that it barely responds at all to a lot of my favorite music. So it’s an almost total letdown here as well.

The idea of using the OhMiBod turns me on way more than its actual use, which has always been a disappointment. I’m still enamored with the idea of a vibrator that is music sensitive, but the OhMiBod fell quite short of the mark.