Forgot to charge your iPod for the beach? Just plug it into a solar-powered iKini...

 

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

 

Last updated at 8:27 AM on 3rd June 2011

 

It may well be something of a niche market.

 

But for those fed up with their iPod running out of power when lazing about in a bikini, help is at hand.

 

It comes in the shape of a £120 swimsuit made of solar panels that can charge everything from an MP3 to a camera.

 

 

She's electric: The Solar Bikini is powered by the sun and has USB sockets stitched in for the wearer to plug in an electronic device

 

The designer, New York-based Andrew Schneider, is even hoping to create a pair of trunks that can cool beer.

 

 

 

He spends up to 80 hours creating each bikini with 40 paper thin flexible, photo-voltaic panels and conductive thread.

 

The user can even take a dip. ‘You just need to be dry before hooking up,’ he added.

Anyone worried about getting a shock from their swimwear needn’t be.

 

‘You wouldn’t even feel the charge,’ insisted Mr Schneider.

USB socket: The swimsuit is powered by photo-voltaic panels sewn together with conductive thread

 

 

 

Each bikini is made to measure and involves up to 80 hours of painstaking hand-stitching. Unsurprisingly, they cost more than £120 each

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, seen that on some unimportant German TV-show about 3 years ago.

Innovation.

No.

Electricity + Water = bad match

 

Although I can see the reason why the Daily Fail is reporting this as it gives them an excuse to print a picture of a girl in a bikini for the dirty men whom read it

Oh god, they don't know what things to invent already :lol:

Yeah, seen that on some unimportant German TV-show about 3 years ago.

Innovation.

 

Yeah that's an old iPod shuffle so I assumed this was years old.

The user can even take a dip. ‘You just need to be dry before hooking up,’ he added.

 

What happens if you aren't dry? You fuxors up your iPod?

 

Anyone worried about getting a shock from their swimwear needn’t be.

 

‘You wouldn’t even feel the charge,’ insisted Mr Schneider.

 

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What happens if you aren't dry? You fuxors up your iPod?

 

 

 

Yes. Then it's no longer a dry-pod.:rolleyes:

 

Well that looks rather uncomfortable