Image: A mobile phone is charged by the lingerie
maker Triumph's new environment-
friendly 'Photovoltaic-Powered Bra' at Tokyo Ryutsu
Center on May 14, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. |
Photograph: Junko Kimura/Getty Images
Posted on 05/14/2008 6:05:56 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
A solar powered bra that can charge a phone!
May 14, 2008
Lingerie maker Triumph International, Japan, on Wednesday unveiled a 'solar powered bra' that can generate enough power to charge a cell phone or an iPod.
The environmentally friendly, green-coloured bra sports a solar panel that can be worn around the stomach.
The bra is equipped with a solar panel which generates electricity using sunlight and distributes it to various types of electrical devices when the power cable is connected.
The bra was revealed prior to the 2008 G8 Hokkaido Toyoko Summit that will address environmental issues.
The bra, Hhwever, will not be available to customers just yet.
Image: A mobile phone is charged by the lingerie
maker Triumph's new environment-
friendly 'Photovoltaic-Powered Bra' at Tokyo Ryutsu
Center on May 14, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. |
Photograph: Junko Kimura/Getty Images
useless-without-graphics alert.
If it's worn around the stomach she's got a serious issue with gravity...
ping for later
I’ll save you the ping.
The lens on the camera is obviously enhancing a certain portion of the anatomy.
Everyone should have known this would be a Japanese invention.
I think my favorite so far has been the inflatable female “lap” that male travelers can rest their heads on.
The first anatomical sex robot WILL be Japanese, guaranteed.
I am just providing the visuals. I make no comment on anatomical positionings. I would hope that whoever wears one of these contraptions doesn’t use “Circus Tents R Us” as a clothing store.
You're probably right, but I wouldn't entirely count out the South Koreans.
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Jackie: So we got an attractive woman, wearing a bra, no top, walkin’ around in broad daylight. She’s flouting society’s conventions!
Kramer: She was flouting.
Jackie: That’s totally inappropriate. It’s lewd, vesivius, salacious, outrageous!
There are areas of the country like here in Seattle that don’t get enough sun.
So what we need is a bra that has an eletromechanical charger inside. Like the old wristwatches that would wind up just by the motion of the wearer.
So here we could utilize the bounce.
That, of course, means we would get a way better charge the more they bounce, so natural resonators need to be built in.
Now in Portland, with all the aging hippies, the bounce wouldn’t work. But they could probably do something with the swing approach.
The first anatomical sex robot WILL be Japanese, guaranteed.
At least will be female
Alrighty. Thanks for the heads up.
How can we tell if a photo is off limits?
The url I used for the photo did not have the word “getty” in it.
Thanks.
If this sells, solar powered jock straps are next.
Sometimes there’s a watermark, sometimes it’s attributed (like it was here). If neither, there’s little we can do.
...so the solar panel will be in the shade?
>Lingerie maker Triumph International, Japan, on Wednesday unveiled a ‘solar powered bra’ that can generate enough power to charge a cell phone or an iPod.
Can it be directly connected to “headlights”? Ha ha ha...
Drat! This renders my plans for coal-fired panties useless! Woe is me!
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