Happy birthday, bikini! Our 12 geeky favorites (NSFW-ish)
Today is the 65th anniversary of the modern bikini. Or actually, it was yesterday. We spent a lot of time (like, seriously a lot of time) yesterday doing serious research for this piece in order to provide you with the best possible bikini content, and it just sort of happened that we looked up and all of a sudden it was tomorrow. Oops.
Just so that you learn something from this post, it's worth mentioning that we say "modern" bikini because as you can see from the above pic, bikinis were thought to be an absolutely smashing idea as far back as fourth century Rome. The "modern" bikini officially debuted (or re-debuted, I guess) at a public pool in Paris on July 5, 1946, looking something like this:
Since then, the bikini has undergone some changes, and recently, it's even been able to adapt to the growing crowd who both can and want to be geeky and sexy at the same time. Check out some of our favorite bikinis, all the way from the geeky to the absolutely ridiculous, in the gallery below.
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You might not want to go swimming in this LED bikini top from Lumigram
The UV reactive beads on this bikini let you know approximately how sunburned you're about to get
The UV meter on this bikini lets you know exactly how sunburned you're about to get
I challenge you to enter the complete Konami code before getting smacked
The Nerve Bra may technically be a bra and not a bikini, but for the life of me I can't always tell the difference, and it looks damn cool.
This 3D printed bikini can be custom made to caress your curves with mathematical precision
Wakka wakka
There's no better way to help save the environment than with a solar powered bikini. You hear me? NO BETTER WAY.
The only thing I know about this bikini it is that those are some very happy goldfish
It doesn't get much geekier than Princess Leia's metal bikini. Oh wait, yes it does, when it's a behind-the-scenes shot of Leia sunbathing next to her stunt double
The straps holding this "dissolving bikini" will part after three minutes of exposure to water and the combined telepathic energies of all adolescent males within visual range
JWin's bikini talks to your iPod via Bluetooth, and includes a suite of buttons but apparently not one for "shuffle"
