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Let's start with the new kid on the surprising gamers products block: the Geekini. The Geekini is, as the name suggests, a bikini for geeks. Strategically placed buttons from a Nintendo games controller make all the difference, but it could be 'game over' if you tried pressing any without explicit prior permission...

I will admit to being more than a little biased, but wherever I see the words geek, game and girl all used together then I start to break out in a cold sweat.

Throw in mention of a bikini and my interest is guaranteed. So I could hardly believe it when someone pointed me in the direction of what promised to be a bikini invented just for games geeks.

All hail John Nouanesing, the French designer who came up with the concept. Then take back those hails as you realise it is just that, a concept.

Shame, as the idea of a slinky two-piece bikini with Nintendo games controller buttons in all the right places does have a certain appeal. Albeit, I admit, an overtly old-school sexist one.

As one blogger noted "it’s a little cheesy, but it beats those shorts with “Juicy” embossed on the ass."

Yet 'Intimate Controllers' are nothing new, and have actually made the leap from drawing board to pre-production working model before now.

So how do intimate video controllers work, and how did JennyLC come up with this novel idea for pressing each others buttons? Find out on page 2...

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