The Solar Bikini: Charge up on this
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12.20.06
OMFG its just so amazing, you can be at the beach all day grooving to tunes on your ipod and never run out of electricity while wearing this photovoltaic bikini! And who goes in the water anyways?
Actually a student project at winter show at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. Designer Andrew Schneider says "The iDrink swimware line is perfect for those who want to go the beach, listen to music, and enjoy a cold and deserved beverage, but who don't want to get wet! The iDrink's photovoltaic film panels allow a fashionable fit while supplying the 6.5 volts @ 1.5 Amps needed to power a peltier junction and an iPod and keep you double cool! See you on the Jersey Shore!" ::ITP via ::Notcot
It seems like a neat idea but I think I would be nervous just being next to all that water in an outfit that looks like it's made for getting wet. It has "practical joke gone wrong" written all over it in my overactive imagination, though I'm not sure if "wrong" means "destroying expensive solar device-slash-bathing suit" or "electrocution".
This would be great if you're just going to be hanging out with your friends and drinking and dancing. It makes me think of some girls I see who just strut across the beach in their bikinis and wearing lots of jewelry and makeup instead of actually being IN the water.