When Asylum first heard about the Real Touch sex device, we were thinking it might be The Breakthrough: virtual, interactive sex. But we've been disappointed so many times before, from the virtual reality Sims with the oversize goggles and gloves to the terrifying and surreal, Roxxxy TrueCompanion. Will it be different this time? Will it finally be like "Weird Science"?

Asylum correspondent G. Xavier Robillard took on the task of finding out whether this technology should rightly be on your Christmas list (or perhaps on your super-secret wish list).