This girl wears a solar-powered bikini that charges her iPod. It took designer Andrew Schneider 80 hours to sew photovoltaic panels to the swimsuit that costs about £120.
John B. Moisant and Mademoiselle Fifi, aviators, ca. 1910
U.S. aviator John B. Moisant and his cat Mademoiselle Fifi (or Paree, depending on who you ask). Moisant, Fifi and the mechanic Albert Fileux made the first passenger flight across the English Channel on 23 August 1910.