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Lora Haddock

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first: 2019-02-27
most recent: 2019-02-27
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Yes, we've got engineers. I have electronics engineer, senior mechatronics engineer. We just hired on a new director of engineering who's a 30-year veteran in mechanical engineering, Kim Porter, out of Bend. And she's seen products from a concept to fruition multiple times over. She's amazing. Right.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sex toys have been around forever. We've had folks in the lab, they've seen what we're doing, and they see it as innovative. They don't bet an eye at it.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Entrepreneurship in A lot of cities are doing this. Yeah, in addition, we actually took on, we just got the grant for Oregon State's business, Oregon, business development organ. We got a phase zero grant for $100,000 because not for not just the technology, not just for a sex toy application. We are actually probably the first company that's creating a sex toy to get a state-funded grant, but we're creating jobs. And we're creating new technology. And that technology has other applications outside of just what our application is.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and all kinds of really attractive to investors because what that fund does is when you invest capital gains, those cap gains sit in that fund as investments in 10 years when you pull them out, there's no taxation.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“$1.1 million. It's routed through an organization called the Oregon Opportunity Zone Limited Partnership. Okay. That we created after federal law created the opportunity zones in Oregon. It happens to be that they are right in the middle of some really great places downtown Portland is one of them, downtown Corvallis and downtown Bend. So all of our...”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not in the way that we have. No, you've seen some things on the market that are close, maybe similar. But all of these functions, all four of these functions all into one tiny package is what was really special about this. And no one's really gone to the extreme of really trying to understand what the physiology, the human physiology looked like and how you can speak to that with microprocessing.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. Yeah. And what that's done, though, is it's also vibrators have, vibrators are great though. I mean, they've pioneered the way to miniaturizing motors. I mean, basically, a vibrator is just a motor with a spindle with an offset cam and you turn it on. vibrates. So I think vibrators are great. They have their place.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you have any idea? I mean, we know that they started creating vibrators as early as the 1920s for medicinal purposes. And that was, ironically then used to treat hysteria in women. Of course, we Everything looks like hysteria in women then. So another thing is that the vibrator was actually, I think, the fourth or fifth electronic device that was actually a household item. Yeah, that's what”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like Marvel movies. You know, I didn't have this kind of orgasm using a vibrator. And we wanted something that was much more biological in nature. And in order to do that, we had to create microbotics that utilize biomimicry.”
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“Why were you eliminating vibration? For me, it was in favor of the use of biomimicry. Penises don't vibrate. Hands don't vibrate. And I did not have... Well, in movies, there.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that sweeps over the G spot, and what we've done is we've created a range of where most people's G spots lie. So we're sweeping over that range. And then it fluxes over the top of the clitoris to stimulate the clitoris touchlessly and delivers an additional sensation to the entire body or the corpus of the clitoris. So we're stimulating the whole thing in hands-free platform without the use of vibration. Right.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, what we're trying to elicit is a blended orgasm. In order to do that, you need to stimulate both the clitoris, the part that you do see, and the Grafenberg spot, which is actually associated with the clitoris. It's part of it. a part of the same erogenous tissue. Most people really don't understand that. It's about the size of a half avocado and shaped like a wishbone, the clitoris. And it actually lies underneath the external, internal labia. And what we're trying to do is stimulate the whole thing from the part that you do see all the way to the part you don't see on the internal vaginal canal on the anterior wall. And so the product goes inside. It actually swells and conforms to fit to the individual user. And we've created a sweeping motion, kind of like a come hither that goes over that wall. I just love that.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Programs in the country. And we had a team of engineers that specialize in robotics. I've got, actually, was speaking to Dr. Ada Rod Short this morning, who is our mechatronics engineer. And she's a PhD that specializes in robotics. And she was one of the first folks on the team. And we started creating that product and throwing down the designs and creating proof of concept. And we, by the time we kind of wrapped up that industry sponsored research project with Oregon State, we had filed five patents. We just finished filing another four. Three,”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Generally, it is going to allow you to file for a patent or protect your IP. And at that point, if you can say, yes, I've created it, yes, it works, then you can protect yourself. And that's what we were aiming to do when I sat down with John. And all of my experience as a society, he's like, I'm not sure about the application. But when I handed him a document that had 52 engineering requirements in order to create the product, he went, that's something we can do. So he gathered a team at Oregon State, who Oregon State happens to be one of the top four robotics”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, prototype. Yeah, so it's what John helped us do. We're creating a product from basically from conception all the way to you have something in hand. It may not be pretty, but it works. And that proof of concept is what...”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not at that time. I started gathering all that data and then I right after I founded the company I started pulling in funding and that was actually part of what made this possible was a partnership with Oregon State University because if I mean if you're going to go create a new mechanical object or project like that it's extremely capital intensive. Engineering is, period. So I sat down with John Parmigani from the Oregon State University Prototype Development Lab. And at first I told him my explanation.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not at that time. Not when I first started. It didn't really become because, like I said, I have a healthcare background. I was more concerned with the anatomy and physiology and the workings of it, like how it interfaced with a human interface. So at that time, it didn't really occur to me. I just knew that there was a dearth of technology that spoke to female physiology and how those products worked. There's a ton of stuff that's like one size fits all. And you and I both know that nobody, like there are no two people or the same. So when I started realizing there just wasn't a product like this, I just started doing designs for it. And I started creating ideas around this. And what I wanted that perfect product to look like. And it's a fun.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look at the VCR versus Betamax. I mean, Betamax lost out because they didn't allow porn on their platform. So technology goes to part.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm going to drip one more time, but the history had been there's been a lot of technology. Early porn stuff really fueled the internet in the beginning, a lot of studies which were, and a lot of innovations like Tinder came from a lot of”
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“Yeah, yeah. So I actually created a survey and I started collecting these data points by email surveys. Whoever would talk to me about it. And I wanted to understand.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I think it's important to note that there wasn't really any product on the market that really spoke to what we're trying to do now, what ended up becoming this product. I wanted something that was completely hands-free for people with vaginas. I wanted something that could fit everyone. So there were no data points for where folks were clitorises are, where their G-spots, the Grafenberg spot is, you can't find that data or that spread of data. So I had to collect that myself. And additionally, we wanted to eliminate the use of vibration in favor of human motion or biomimicry. So I wanted to replicate the sensations you get with a human partner.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How do I do that again? So I literally started to really dive into the anatomy and physiology of the erogenous zones and females. And I have a background in healthcare. And it's a bit of an obsession of mine. So I started really kind of picking that all apart and figuring out how do you do this? And what I ended up doing is...”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think a big part of it was I had this insane orgasm when I was about 28 years old. And it was a blended orgasm and it literally landed me on the floor and I stared at the ceiling for a minute.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, agreed. Yeah, so I started the company back in October of 2017. And the idea had been with me for years before that. But in the span of a year and a half, we went from concept to product prototype in hand and more on our bridge to manufacturing.”
2019-02-27 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Lora Haddock · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hi, I'm Kara Swisher, Editor at Large of Recode. You may know me as someone who looks forward to ignoring CES every year, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Vox Media. In the red chair is Laura Haddock, the CEO of Sex Toy startup called Laura DiCarlo. Publicity late last year when the trade group that runs CES said it was going to give her company an innovation”
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