Posted on 11/30/2004 10:13:17 AM PST by T Wayne
As if a plain old thong wasn't enough to accentuate what isn't covered, a Rice University MBA student has shed some neon light on the skin with a glow-in-the-dark version.
Beau Carpenter, an avid runner who also works at NASA, initially thought of creating glow-in-the-dark jogging clothes, but practicality evaporated when thongs captured his attention during his Internet research. He enlisted Chris Harris, an electrical engineering student at Rice, and Marcus Brocato, a chemistry lab manager at the Houston private university, to develop the GloThong.
"Being guys, it didn't take us long to gravitate to them," Carpenter told the Houston Chronicle in Sunday's editions. "My co-workers find it endlessly entertaining."
The thongs have lightweight, water-resistant batteries that, when fully charged, illuminate the straps for two hours in various neon colors, including blue, pink and yellow. Wearers can use a wall adapter to charge them up, but car chargers are available for those on the go.
They were a hit when the team recently took their invention to a topless bar in Dickinson.
"The women liked the product so much that they lined up to give us their real names and cell numbers," Carpenter said.
The thong will be available for $49.95 by mid-December, but the group intends to expand their offerings to include luminescent bras and bikinis.
"We're selling attention," Carpenter said. "You kind of feel like Cinderella until the Glo runs out."
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On the Net: www.glothong.com
If underwear was illuminated, only the illuminated would wear them...
Or only the illuminati....
Something like that.
FMCDH!
Could you briefly explain it?
Someone remind me, Which version of Cinderella had her sporting a pair neon-glow in the dark thongs at the ball?
See..what you can come up with if you put your mind to it.
You don't wanna know.....just think of that same network that carried naked volleyball.....
Are you saying he did it for all the thong reasons?
I hear the PPP coming now. You better duck or cut and run.
Some PPP have their finger on the previous post button, cant avoid them. sigh
Purple Panty Police? (This article just begs for bad jokes hehe)
"I thought you said butt light"
This is about time. How did society survive without this for so long?
Oh, light up, wouldya?
I like your version better...Purple Pantie Police..Maybe Robinson will allow another brigade?
All kidding aside, I think that these could make this enterprising young man a fortune. I see skanks with their thongs hanging out of the tops of their jeans all the time. Why wouldn't they want them to glow at the nightclubs, to attract more attention to their love handles? $$$$Free Enterprise!$$$$
Not crazy about the idea of underwear featuring fully-charged batteries with illumination capabilities wrapped snugly around the family jewels.
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