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The Fukuoku Power Pack is intended to be a vibrator that straps onto your fingers and makes them “vibrate” to make the activities you already do even more sexual. The Power Pack includes the wrist band, the wrist controller, and three separate-textured fingers with the cables to attach them to the wrist controller. Unlike the Adult Toy Shoppe ‘s picture, mine is actually all black – no pink to my set. The majority of the set is made from a plastic, but the pads of the fingers meant for play are covered in a rubber.
The entire Fukuoku Power Pack comes packaged in a plastic package that keeps them all in place. The packaging isn’t all that helpful in the scheme of things – especially when I looked around the package to find what types of batteries this takes, and the packaging did not tell me. It just told me batteries were included. Thanks for being so helpful packaging. </sarcasm> For your information, it takes AAAs. As a note, there’s no way you are getting this package open without a pair of scissors. We didn’t notice that, and we took it to a BDSM event where there were no scissors. No part of the packaging is recyclable.
The vibration setting on this sex toy is adjustable. If you look, there’s a little dial that sits on top of the wrist controller. This adjusts the vibration setting and is extremely easy to do. When it’s on the “Off” position, it clicks off and won’t vibrate. Moving it up will turn it on to relatively normal vibration strengths. It’s not amazingly strong, but it will work well for most. They aren’t deep vibrations – they are much more buzzy. For full-body massages, it’s perfect. For genital use, it may leave some people wishing for more, but it should work for the vast majority of people. The vibrations are pretty quiet – you won’t be able to hear these through a closed door which is always nice.
The batteries are stored in the wrist controller. It takes three AAA batteries. The battery cover is extremely easy to remove, and it will be a cinch to insert the batteries. There’s no way to feel the battery compartment on your wrist, so it’s really comfortable. The first set of batteries is included.
As you can see from the product page, each one of the fingers is removable – you can choose to use all three or just one finger. The wires work pretty nicely and don’t tangle up once they are on your hand. You can choose to keep the wrist controller near your joint or farther up – the cords have some length to them, but it’s something that was made short so the cords won’t get in your way. The finger pads can be plugged in and unplugged during use. I found that it’s a bit tricky to unplug and plug in the fingers with only one hand to help (because it’s on your wrist), so if you are playing by yourself, you might want to think ahead and plug in as many as you want.
The fingers on this will work well for most people. They aren’t complete “circles” for your fingers – each one, like a cheap plastic ring you probably wore as a child, has that little break in the ring that allows it to be adjustable. The fingers are relatively light-weight. You will notice they are there, but it won’t be something that will really bother you because of the weight. Each of the individual fingers has a texture on the rubber part. There’s one with a swirl, one with little pointy dots, and another with three lines on the body of the finger pad.
The wrist strap on this is a bit of a pain in my butt. The strap is made from a flexible elastic, and while it’s a little snug on my larger wrist, it does fit just fine. The pain is actually getting it onto the battery pack itself. Make sure you choose to open this before you are actually turned on, because this thing is a bit frustrating on the wrist-strap department. The strap is actually slightly larger than the small hole it has to go into, so it takes some maneuvering. Once on, it never needs to be removed, so it’s just a one-time annoyance.
I was a little disappointed with this. Honestly, without thinking it through, I wanted it for the submissive to attempt to use this while stroking a penis. However, once the fingers are actually on, you can’t bend your hand into a C-shape at all. You can’t honestly even bend your fingers at all with these on properly. (Properly means your finger tips are at the tip of the toy. If you wear these “improperly”, you can bend your fingers more.) This means that my submissive was completely unable to bend his hand nor masturbate.
So I thought, well, that’s okay, since I can use it on myself. So I placed the single finger pad on myself, and thought I’d use it to basically “extend” the pleasure that I already receive from my own hand. But there was a problem. The heat of the area mixing with the lubrication (natural or otherwise) of the area makes the fingerpads slide right up your finger. So, I thought, maybe I’ll attempt to use pressure to keep it on. No can do. There’s really no way to comfortably bend your fingers to apply pressure either. If the company had just placed a little “bump” on the rubber to keep the finger from sliding forward in the fingers, it would have worked about twenty times better. But they didn’t. So it really doesn’t work well for us.
As a note to use, we didn’t find much use for the differing textures of the finger pads. The dotted one was actually a pretty uncomfortable, poke-y one, and we didn’t like using that one. The swirled one was near-impossible to feel during use, and the ridged one while textured and could be felt, didn’t really add anything to the sensation.
So what will we be using this for? This genital play just doesn’t seem to be in the cards for us with this one, we’ll most likely be using this for full-body vibrations and massage. Keeping the vibration setting on a lower setting means that fingers will work nicely on most areas of the body as long as you don’t want to apply pressure. You can lightly trace fingers along the back or other limbs and it feels pretty pleasurable. Having the vibrations focus in the pads of the fingers means that my hand doesn’t get numb during a longer play session either.
This isn’t a waterproof toy, so I’d recommend that you be careful while washing it. You should only wash the finger pads of the toy and make sure it’s unplugged while you do. I used warm water and antibacterial soap to clean it. For storage, be careful – wires don’t really like to be folded up for storage. It can be stored that way, but at the very least, don’t get knots in the wires. I’m just going to keep this in a plastic baggie to avoid getting it near other toys. All types of lubricant are safe with this, but keep the lubricant to the finger pads and not near the control dial.
Overall, I was kinda disappointed with this sex toy. I was expecting that I’d be able to use this as something that would “increase” the pleasure I normally receive from toys-free masturbation. It didn’t really do that. It was more frustrating than pleasurable. However, we did find a use for this vibrator in full-body massages, and if you think this will work better for you, I’d check it out.
