CVFR-S09 Solar Vest [Recharge Your iPod and Alienate People At the Same Time]

If you are having trouble with excess popularity, good looks, and general coolness, and the pocket protector isn’t doing it for you, I think I have just the thing. I believe I may have stumbled upon the quintessential geek garment. This thing enables you to accomplish two things. You can harness the power of the sun to charge electronics and look like a complete idiot at the same time.

I wasn’t able to track down the source of this brilliant combination of haut couture and eco-friendly charging, but I think it’s safe to say that it was born in the land of the Great Wall. The CVFR-S09 Solar Vest combines the hideously bad look of a tan fisherman’s vest with the equally bad look of four solar panels strewn across the back. I can’t be sure what really sets this one apart from the rest. Maybe it’s the fact that anyone wearing it is almost guaranteed to remain alone. Maybe it’s the words “Solar Vest” embroidered across the back. Either way, I’m pretty sure that even Napoleon Dynamite would be embarrassed to wear this thing. This pic says it all -

This vest is equipped with four solar panels that can be used to charge your gadgets. The panels are even removable so that you can set them in the window to recharge while you’re inside. That makes it all OK, doesn’t it? The fact that someone can hold up to eight gadgets in their vest and recharge each of them – one at a time – is somehow both sad and weird. At $140, you just can’t go right. Now drop that quantum mechanics textbook and head over to www.chinavision.com before they’re all gone.