--- title: Electric Eel Digital Condom Will Electrocute You For Pleasure description: Only for the truly adventurous canonical: https://time.com/9583/this-digital-condom-will-electrocute-you-for-pleasure/ author: Jessica Roy article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-24T15:52:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:17.777Z og:title: Electric Eel Digital Condom Will Electrocute You For Pleasure og:description: Only for the truly adventurous og:url: https://time.com/9583/this-digital-condom-will-electrocute-you-for-pleasure/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltedbc0168592197e5/69868326e8524b2c406018ea/condoms.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Condoms og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Electric Eel Digital Condom Will Electrocute You For Pleasure twitter:description: Only for the truly adventurous twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltedbc0168592197e5/69868326e8524b2c406018ea/condoms.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Digital Condom Will Electrocute You for Pleasure by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 24, 2014 3:52 PM UTC  Getty Images by [Jessica Roy](https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/) ## Jessica Roy Feb 24, 2014 3:52 PM UTC If the [condom slingshot ](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/11/watch-can-this-condom-slingshot-win-the-100000-condom-contest/)wasn’t enough to get you in the mood, two researchers from Georgia Tech have teamed up to spearhead a new approach to safe sex: digital condoms that literally shock you. _Vice_ [reports](http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-open-source-digital-condom-will-literally-shock-you) that the project is called the [Electric Eel](http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/digital-condom), and it’s an open source digital condom wired with electrodes and hooked up to a microcontroller. Once charged, the condom emits low levels of electrical impulses in an attempt to match the feelings of condomless sex and increase stimulation. The researchers hope new innovations in condom technology will help mitigate[ the epidemic of young people who eschew condoms ](http://healthland.time.com/2013/11/12/no-condom-culture-why-teens-arent-practicing-safe-sex/)due to the fact that they can dull sensation. For more info, check out this (mildly NSFW) [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxDsEVqnyY#t=103). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/9583/this-digital-condom-will-electrocute-you-for-pleasure/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/9583/this-digital-condom-will-electrocute-you-for-pleasure/"},"headline":"This Digital Condom Will Electrocute You for Pleasure","datePublished":"2014-02-24T15:52:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:17.777Z","description":"Only for the truly adventurous","url":"https://time.com/9583/this-digital-condom-will-electrocute-you-for-pleasure/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Science topic","Lifestyle"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltedbc0168592197e5/69868326e8524b2c406018ea/condoms.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Roy","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-roy/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltedbc0168592197e5/69868326e8524b2c406018ea/condoms.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Condoms","caption":"Condoms","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/9583/this-digital-condom-will-electrocute-you-for-pleasure/","name":"This Digital Condom Will Electrocute You for Pleasure"}}]}] ```