arc Snyder hasn't slept in days. The sudden success of his new invention keeps him up nights, doing everything he can to keep up with the amazing demand for his new wonder product. He has truly done the spectacular — literally giving voice to the voiceless while simultaneously creating an international commercial success.

Marc Snyder has made a condom that speaks.

Marc is the inventor and manufacturer of the Amazing Talking Condom, the latest safe sex promotion/kinky gimmick to hit the world adult toy market. And while he's sold 35,000 of the chatty buggers in his first month of operation, he's not driven by a desire to profit from the prurient interest. Rather, he wants to promote safe sex.

"Someone at Planned Parenthood asked me if I could make a condom so unique it would get people talking about condom usage," Marc told Tweak. "So I thought, hey, how about a talking condom."

This whole business would just be silly were it not for Marc's sincere interest in promoting safe sex. "I was actually inspired by Magic Johnson and his work and how he bounced back. I just feel really good about that guy," Marc says, noticeably choking-up just a bit. "He really touches me."

The Oakland, California-based inventor used age-old science to give his conversational contraceptive the gift of gab. "I used Thomas Edison's phonograph technology," he explains. "It's like the groove of an LP record, only straightened out. You slide your thumbnail down the recorded strip to make the condom talk."

The strip is actually part of the packaging, though, which means the prattling prophalaytics only speak while wrapped up. Once unfurled, they become high-quality, Nonoxynol-9 sporting, made-in-America latex condoms

Unfortunately, the technology isn't perfect. The silver-tongued sheaths speak in a high-pitched, almost cartoon voice and say things like "hello sweetheart" and "let's make love." It's kind of like being picked up in a fern bar by Woody the Woodpecker, but Marc doesn't seem to mind. "You can lower the tone or change the pitch depending on the speed of your thumb along the strip," he points out.

But the lack of a seductive sounding voice hasn't hurt the popularity of the rambling rubbers. Already they are being translated into Spanish, Italian, French, and Korean. Marc is also looking into celebrity voices and custom-made condoms for specific industries.

"One of alleged madam Heidi Fleiss's people contacted me," Marc says, "about making a condom for their work." Needless to say, he's added a new product to the mostly romantic list of phrases. The latest: "Thanks for your business."