We're refreshed and excited to wrap up the work needed to get the rubbot in the hands of beta testers, despite our main engineer crushing his nuts in a freak surfing accident. He straddled his board when he tried to drop-in on toytalk. That'll teach him!

the rubbot.com team were there, spreading the word about the great white hope.

Search for "homemade sex toy" on google and you'll quickly realize that a lot of men are making their own sex toys.

This isn't necessarily a bad idea, but it's not easy to make a good sex toy at home.

Ideas range from painful to dangerous to downright disgusting. So, for your reading pleasure, I've highlighted five that caught my eye as contenders for "the five worst homemade male sex toy ideas of all time".

It's summer in San Francisco; which in my neighborhood means howling foggy winds and freezing temperatures. At least, it feels freezing.

So rather than brave the elements, I've recently found myself researching other sex toys for men on the market. "Other" implying that the fine folks at rubbot.com have an alternative, which we don't, but, as the monkey said, it won't be long now.

These others (Lost fans please feel free to re-apply any of your existing connotations to that word), primarily focus on the creation of the illusion that you are actually having sex.

One of the motivations behind this project, aside from a few lonely nights ;) was the realization about the inequality in sex toys. Girls have all kinds of cool gizmos. Guys, on the other hand, have a few cheesy products, most of which they'd be too embarrassed to own.

What well-adjusted, self-respecting guy would welcome a full sized inflatable PVC woman into his home? Who wants to walk out of a sketchy-looking store called "Big Al's" with a box covered in images of some chick with her legs behind her head?

Over the years, I've heard a lot of stories about men and home made sex toys. I'm wondering if basically everyone has given this a go. Have you? Be honest. . . take the homemade sex-toy poll.