Well, I Still Jerk Off Manually…

The porn industry's preference for VHS tapes is often cited—how accurately is unclear—as a decisive factor in the format's victory over Betamax. Well, plus ça change: Reliable sources tell me you can find dirty movies on these here Internets, and The L.A. Times reports that pr0n is once again leading the charge into the future. Vivid Video's hoping to penetrate new markets by offering DVD-burnable movies for download, a move the mainstream studios have resisted thus far. Meanwhile, in the exciting world of teledildonics, it seems the Iraq war has spurred the development of new and better USB-enabled vibrators, with which troops in the field can deploy a little long-distance diddling to sweeties left stateside. Possibly the most compelling example I've heard of commercial technology spun off from a military venture.