http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041130/ap_on_fe_st/glothong ---------------- HOUSTON - 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 (news - web sites), 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." On the Net: www.glothong.com
heard them on the Buzz this morning. They were talking about having models model them at the bowling game they are going to have with Hoobastank.
so some doofus from Rice strapped some glow sticks and a piece of cloth together and is calling it a thong? BRILLIANT
PLEASE. There have been glow in the dark thongs for ages now... I believe I had some in HS, although the whole things weren't glow in the dark, just the little designs in the front were.... IIRC.
Well I am glad that you didn't. Who else could answer my questions about the blues?? giddyup?? I think not!
I think that's exactly the purpose of them. Too expensive and too much trouble for most people. However, the "adult" entertainment industry can't wait to get their... ummm, hands on these...
