Author's Note:
My entry for the
"2022 AI: A New Era" Author Challenge
will again include my favorite characters, Ted and Jan, a loving couple. This is inspired by both my penchant for high-tech toys and my wife's high sex drive.
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Intro
My wife, Jan came from the basement stairs and her daily workout. She walked to the refrigerator, and I glanced up when she opened the low drawer of the freezer to get ice for her water bottle. She bent her lithe body over at the waist, not quite aiming her shapely ass at me. Her long dark auburn hair was tied in a ponytail and hanging down alongside and slightly obscuring her ample chest. She looked over at me to ensure I was watching her.
"Enjoying the view?" she asked.
"Of course," I replied, knowing she loves the attention. "I wouldn't want to disappoint you. But your hair is in the way."
She reached to pull the ponytail onto her back, and still bent over, grasped her breast on the side toward me to better shape and point it straight down. "There. Is that better?"
"Now if you just had someone fucking you from behind," I said, "I could enjoy the sight of those tits swinging."
"Pervert!" she said with a slight laugh as she straightened to stand. "... So, what does my geek have planned for today? I saw in an e-mail alert you have a package being delivered. A new toy for me?"
"I saw you had your tablet computer out and a toy beside your living room chair this morning," I said with a chuckle. "Playing with yourself again, after I went to bed?"
"I wasn't done," she said defensively. "And you're getting my pussy enough. But I love being a woman. I can go all night."
"Sorry, but I'm a guy, and I can't go all night," I said. "Once I cum, I'm done for at least a little while until I recharge. But that package isn't for you, it's for work. The VP asked me to look into a few things to prep for a contract proposal for a medical device company."
Jan was only half listening to me as she said "
Alexa
, show my favorite morning program on the kitchen TV."
The artificial female voice replied
"Here's today's 'This Old House' episode showing in the kitchen, Jan. Setting your preferred volume level two. But today's episode is a rerun I showed you two months ago."
"I was talking to some people at work," Jan said, "and they can't get their Echo Dot to turn on TVs, select channels, or address them by name."
"I wrote my own Echo Dot app for you," I said "I was tired of listening to you bitch about looking for a TV remote. My app recognizes your voice and tracks your viewing history. It was one of my
'lazy projects'
."
"I've been meaning to increase my elliptical workout routine, too," Jan said. "Can you go downstairs and add two-minutes at a cooldown level one?"
"
Alexa
," I said in command voice, "Access the elliptical profile Jan, add two minutes at level one to her profile."
The female voice replied "Adding two minutes to Jan on the elliptical at level one."
"My, you are lazy," Jan said with a chuckle. "Now if you could just make her work my toys for me."
"Too tired to masturbate?" I chuckled. "Talk about lazy!"
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The Project
Saturday mornings at the breakfast table are usually my time to relax and read the news. My wife likes to sleep in on the weekends about a half hour longer than me. And she appreciates having the kitchen cleaned and her coffee made when she comes out of the bedroom, heading downstairs for her work out in the basement gym.
This morning, I was engrossed in reading a user guide for a new device my boss wanted me to investigate.
The monitoring device described by this user guide is a state-of-the-art device from a medical company, and could monitor blood pressure, heart rate, respiration, skin conductance, muscle tension, and (from several points around the head) a basic electroencephalogram (aka brainwaves). The innovation was that all of this was built into a thin, stylish Wi-Fi connected headband, with wider matching bracelets which held the main batteries. The headband was recharged through a slow trickle charge from the proximity of the wrist bands. The closer the wristbands were held to the headband, the faster it recharged. This whole system was designed to allow a wearer to use the device for up to 48 hours without recharging.