Radiation – the creeping, silent danger – is invisible to the naked eye. So how do you tell how much UV the sun is showering on your delicate dermis? UV detecting beads, that's how. The beads change color depending on the intensity of UV radiation, and an accompanying tag shows a color-coded chart.
It is, however, very expensive. The beads come attached to a bikini, which will cost $100. If that sounds reasonable, might we interest you in Solestrom's other product, the $190 SmartSwim UV Meter Bikini pictured above at right. It comes in appropriately high-tech silver and has an LED UV meter built into the belt. It's waterproof, but inexplicably requires batteries to run. Surely it should use solar power.
Bead-kini product page [Solestrom via Oh Gizmo!]
LCD-kini product page [Solestrom]
