Solar-Powered Bikini Charges Electronics

[wtmusic]

A niche market where nuclear has met its match.

"While it may look like some kind of new cyber geek fetish wear, this panel-clad bikini is actually a way for beachgoers to charge up their electronics using the sun's rays. The brainchild of Brooklyn-based designer Andrew Schneider, the Solar Bikini can juice up iPhones and other small electronics, but remains completely safe to wear in the water. And this isn't just some pie-in-the-sky concept - Schneider is currently accepting custom orders."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/29/-solar-powered-bikini-electronics_n_911172.html#s316961

[LiberalFighter]

1. I would avoid it. Think a stand-a-lone solar charger would be better.

[sethgrogen]

2. not just some pie in the sky concept!

Love it!

[Ready4Change]

3. So...

You take a garment that intentionally has as small of a surface area as possible, and you place on it something (solar PV's) that requires as LARGE a surface area as possible.

Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Now, make a solar collecting beach blanket? THAT would rock.

[eppur_se_muova]

4. or beach umbrella ... or cooler ... nt

[Ready4Change]

5. Also good options.

:thumbsup:

[XemaSab]

6. As long as it can power an iPod

or--ahem--OTHER small appliance....

[TheWraith]

7. I support this and believe we should invest millions to research it. nt

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Well, that looks terribly comfortable.

[pscot]

9. Glad to see they're coming up with

solid, practical, every-day uses for solar. Bring it firmly into the mainstream of American life.

[SpoonFed]

10. Glad to see that you are not only posting articles related to...

old *white* guys and their predictable viewpoints... but have now added average-body-type female North Americans into your pluralism.