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[bishoptl]

Wanna crotch-saunter at night....safely?

They call it the GloThong.

For $49.95 you get a thong that lights up the derriere and almost everything around it for at least two hours. It's water-resistant and comes with a battery wall adapter, or you can buy a car charger similar to those used for cell phones.

You laugh. So did I.

What makes it even more outrageous is that GloThong is the idea of Beau Carpenter, who works at NASA and is an MBA student at Rice University. The avid runner had wanted to create luminescent jogging apparel, but he got sidetracked after finding a slew of thongs on the Internet.

"Why not make a thong that glows in the dark?" he thought.

So Carpenter rounded up his posse -- fellow Rice cohorts Chris Harris, an electrical engineering student, and Marcus Brocato, a chemistry lab manager who works with Nobel Prize winner Richard Smalley -- to develop GloThong.

 

[Escape Goat]

I'm surprised this thread has got as many replies as it has.

Leave it to a gay man to make the first post in heterosexual thread.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

The face of the guy in the pic is funny

 

[Ripclawe]

You know these thongs are going on people who have no reason being in one.

 

[FortNinety]

I'm surprised this thread has got as many replies as it has.

Leave it to a gay man to make the first post in heterosexual thread.

Hey, you're gay?

Guess that makes yoru tag even more appropriate, huh?

 

[Kave_Man]

Horrible idea.

 

[Archaix]

Hey, you're gay?

I'm not exactly sifting through the forum for your posts, but this is at least the 5th time I've seen this comment made in reference to you.

 

[KingGondo]

The face of the guy in the pic is funny

His smile reminds me of: