Tag: UNDERWEAR

Walmart, America's largest retailer and the world's largest corporation, will be placing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on the jeans and underwear sold in its 3,750-plus U.S. stores beginning next month. The removable tags will be used to monitor inventory losses and shelf stock, but some people are less than happy about the prospect of carrying around a tracking device in their ...

Your underwear already holds plenty of secrets, ones that we'd rather not even mention here. (The brave can check out this fascinating and disturbing analysis of undie contents.) Your skivvies are about to get a bit more knowledgeable, if a study from U.C. San Diego portends the future of intimates. Researchers from Taiwan and the California university have been working on a way to print ...

Don't snicker at these knickers. Incontinence, or involuntarily leakage, is no laughing matter, especially for the elderly. But now, Australian company Simavita has created a new system that could revolutionize caring for the elderly and infirm. According to Engadget, the SIMsystem is the world's first texting underwear. By outfitting a patient's underwear with a replaceable pad equipped with ...

Perverts rejoice! There's yet another iPhone application that caters to your sexual fantasies. We've already told you about the 'Hottest Girls' app, and the 'myMassage' app. Beating both of those apps on the creepiness scale, though is 'Puff!' The goal of this game is to blow into the iPhone microphone until the onscreen girl's skirt lifts up, revealing her underwear. If you blow hard, the girl's ...

After four months in space, Koichi Wakata is returning to Earth -- and bringing his astronaut underwear with him. According to the Associated Press, scientists will be examining these experimental anti-bacterial, flame retardant, antistatic, and water-absorbent briefs. More importantly, the underwear (dubbed "J-Wear") is designed to be odor-free. Designed in Japan, the undies are made of a ...

Truthfully, there's just not enough work being done in the area of advanced underpants, so we're absolutely elated to hear that textile experts at Japan Women's University in Tokyo are picking up the slack and moving forward with an amazing development. Koichi Wakata, the first Japanese astronaut to live on the International Space Station, is current testing the "odor-free" clothing, and it's ...

This product announcement has us searching for the proper quip that will offend as few as possible: GPS lingerie is on the market (at last!) for all those women who ... have a poor sense of direction? Yes, it's true, GPS lingerie has been introduced by Brazilian Lucia Lorio, who says her dainty garments are for the "modern, techno-savvy woman." This follows a great tradition of adding all sorts ...

Unless your name is Madonna, you're probably in the habit of wearing your underwear beneath the rest of your clothes -- assuming you wear any at all. For this reason, a concept piece from high-end lingerie manufacturer Triumph might seem a bit peculiar to you. It's a solar-powered bra capable of charging an iPod or cell phone, in theory. In practice, this thing doesn't really seem to have any ...