At the 2026 NAMM Show, the strangest thing we’ve seen this year has been the Groove Thing, a Bluetooth Buttplug speaker and sex toy.
Groove Thing founder Michael Weiss-Malik – described as “a lifelong passionate music lover, technologist, and pleasure seeker” – financed the initial production of the device via a Kickstarter project, but now is making it more broadly available.
The designers say that the Groove Thing is “like having a third ear.” In your butt.
The Groove Thing is made up of two main components: a standard Bluetooth stereo speaker, and a set of interchangeable wired vibrating resonators, which are designed to be “used internally”. This includes anal, vaginal, and clitoral options.
If you don’t like the provided options and want to use your own toy, a ‘BYOD’ Vac-U-Lock adapter is available as an optional add-on.
Here’s the official Groove Thing video preview:
They say that the prototype has been “tested in over 170 holes.”
If you’re interested in backend audio solutions or ass-istive listening technology, you can get a hands-on demo at the NAMM Show in the Music Innovation Hub.
If you’ve made it this far, let us know the song that you’d blast on the Groove Thing! Or just make everybody’s day with a snarky-ass comment!
WILL SMITH’s – Getting Jiggy with IT
[allegedly]
LMAO
ALL About that BASS
Definitely ‘Low Rider’ by War!
I just threw up in my mouth.
Sorry, Rob. We’ll try to put this behind us.
I giggled 🙂
don’t knock it til you’ve tried it! this opens up all sorts of possibilities for enjoying music.
imagine being a prude in 2026…
Hey, if thinking it’s a little wierd for shoving a bluetooth speaker up your ass makes me a prude then yep, I’m a proud prude.
not your vibe?
The best answer has to be Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder’s “I Feel Love”!
Watch out for the brown note
Can’t wait to see this on Bad Gear. 😀
please, that would be epic
Cbat, surely.
Let’s hope the guys who kidnapped muffwigglers and changed its name, do something about all of this, non inclusive and offending item…
that forum changed its name while Mike was still around. I’m fairly certain you’re disrespecting one of his final wishes…
Incorrect, it was changed on the 2 year anniversary of his passing. Mike was very much against changing the name.
That is definitely not true. He was asked many times to change the name and he refused. The change happened 6months to a year after he passed away. This kind of means to an end “ideology” where we can lie thru our teeth because we and only we have the absolute truth is a disgrace and that is what happened in that forum.
What do you mean non-inclusive? Are women not allowed to use this as well?
huh? Who doesnt have a butt?
I guess you need a Prostata to get a kick out of it, but ..,
My wife for one. You wouldn’t believe the number of people that have an ostomy bag. Many people with Chron’s, Celiac, and all sorts of issues end up getting them. Then they close up the butt as nothing is connected to it.
it’s official: music technology has truly turned backwards
And here i was thinking that the music making community is one of the last safe spaces to resort in order to not have the sexualization of everything everything swap over but i was wrong. We are becoming more and more Apes again
We were, we are, and always will be apes (unless science/tech can do something about it). I think you’re being too optimistic.
Yes, everything is sexualized because everything is sexual. Until it’s not. My female friends have all reached that point – menopause. Unfortunately, I have not.
comic book jesus forbids music sexualization! gods forbid music should be sexy. polyphany is the devil herself.
Anthing from the 80’s with the phrase “BUM-RUSH ME”…
Huh look the behringer sit n spin
Butthole Surfers – Pepper
did I win the thing now? ^^
Amazing toy .. i think this device could change how we think about music generally… im deffo going to be producing with this platform in mind 🙂
So much of today’s music sounds like s#*t so this is the perfect way to listen to it. I wonder when these will start showing up on EBay. Groove Thing is a company that has been coming from behind, so this product is like sneaking in the back door.
I can’t wait to see recordings with a “mastered for Groove Thing” logo on the cover! 😛
No midi?
It’s assactly what I was looking for – a rear speaker for my 6:9 system. The general pubic will love this. Butt, cheek your local laws before buying because I ANAL.
It’s not April already is it?
Any VST PLUG IN?????
😀
One of the demo songs should obviously be Spinal Tap’s “Big Bottom.”
What a time to be alive!
Is it a coincidence that this and Casio’s strap-on device came out at the same time?
There is no such thing as coincidence.
If I had this device, which I probably will, I would “listen” to Wire’s Pink Flag, but I’m not sure I would survive the experience.
This site has truly gone to shit and this article is proof- it’s clearly nothing but a shameless plug. What void does a product like this fill? It only appeals to those with the most severe GAS. I’ll be surprised if I don’t get banned for posting this, the mods here are completely anal retentive.
“What void does a product like this fill?”
Im pretty sure you are not ready to hear the answer to that. ^^
thought you’d be more open minded about a little pleasure.
I thought of this as a joke forty years ago. What is it with some people that they’re never satisfied until they take such ideas seriously? ??
You wouldn’t want any bum notes while listening to this…
Finally, a way to listen to Dark Side of the Moon as Pink Floyd intended.
Volca owners have been onto this for years
FLAT BEAT by Mr OIZO will bring you to 7th heaven !
take your fancy music gear reviewing sensibilities and shove it right up your ass! (this time I’m allowed to say it)
This rocks
‘Relax’ by Frankie Goes to Hollywood : D
Is this the first time I’ve commented on Synthtopia? It might be! But this warranted it! Wow! It’s fascinating and I don’t want to try it and yet I want to try it. But like I don’t. But what is it like? Can you hear there? What?? What in the world?!
Too expensive, I will wait and get a used one.