iPodkini

As part of its swimsuit issue, Sports Illustrated included the iPod as a bikini. At first this bothered me...but then I started thinking about the sexiness of technology - and how that sexiness is often lost among its nerdy reputation and product coldness.

Indeed, leave it to Apple to create white computers, and MP3 players in wild colors. Is technology becoming sexy? Will it finally lose its masculinity and shed its image of dark, cold and inaccesssible. And what will this mean for women?

Naturally, the irony that it takes a naked woman to make me wonder if technology is finally becoming sexy which could benefit women as a group - is not lost on me.