We love the French. After all, one of our favorite tech makers, Withings, comes from France. As does the Tour. And French Fries. 聽
But the new is faux smart.聽
The $167 swimsuit uses a UV sensor that鈥檚 roughly the size of a credit card and designed to tell wearers when to cover up. Then, when you鈥檝e been out sunbathing long enough (and presumably not swimming, as we fear the viability of how the device is moored), it pings a connected app on your phone to聽let聽you know it鈥檚 time to cover up.
Because this is France, and you鈥檙e wearing a bikini, there鈥檚 also an option to have the app relay the fact that you need sunblock to a special someone聽so they can apply the coverage for you. Whatever happened to ?听
And while we鈥檙e killing the, er, mood, we鈥檒l point out that you should probably have sunblock on anyway, and that if you want a UV meter to tell you how much is too much, many other options are available (like this Android app聽and from June), none of which require the purchase of a bikini.聽