Today’s Curiosity – The SenSlip

As the regular readers amongst you will know, the staff here at TFTS Towers – that’s me then – like to offer a healthy mix of the bizarre in with the regular gadget and technology news, and today’s curious item is a fine if not positively upstanding example of this tradition.

And, if you can guess what this is from the picture on the right, and you have not seen it before, then you can award yourself ten well deserved points for your startling deductive abilities….and then you can then promptly take away the very same ten points for having a mind that’s in the gutter (you really should be ashamed of yourself).

In actuality, however, if your mind is in the gutter then I suspect that you may well have correctly deduced this items function, or at least come pretty close, as the SenSlip is the world’s first artificial retractable foreskin for the circumcised chaps amongst you.

Developed by a retired airline pilot and manufactured in the UK (hurrah!) by the American company Viafin-Atlas, the SenSlip has been produced in order to aid the sensitivity of a circumcised chap’s trouser snake and is designed, according to the official product website, to be put on in the morning and taken off at night just like a shirt.

The SenSlip is hand washable.

The SenSlip is available in ten distinct sizes, from size two to eleven (the website offers instructions as to how to correctly gauge your required size, though my pointer for those coming in as a size two is to add a random number between five and nine before ordering). It is also comforting to know that not only is the SenSlip hand washable, but that it brings with it a feeling of “warmth, security and self-esteem”. That said, if self-esteem is of concern, perhaps stuffing a large hiking sock down your trousers may prove a more affordable alternative.

Available in packs of five (checks trousers, feels inadequate as has just the one) the SenSlip comes in both Caucasian pink and mid-brown tones and is capable of maintaining its shape, consistency and appearance for up to ten days with regular use.

Incidentally, the SenSlip weighs as much as a tissue and is seamless (just in case you were wondering).

* Hampster aqualung sold seperately.

If you are interested in this item – the trail pack will set you back $29.00 – you can visit the product site via this link. And remember, if anyone should find one of these in your sock draw just tell then it’s a wet suit for the hamster.