Season Two's Diana Eng always tries to combine her love of technology with her love of fashion design. Last Halloween, she dressed up as a lightning bug -- complete with light-up tail. She has modified her lightning bug costume for parents and children.
Eventually, she'd like to design a parent-child lightning bug ensemble that would help mom or dad keep track of their kids. Her concept: When the parent and child stand close to each other, the costumes glow. But if the child strays to far from the parent, then the costumes go dim. So of course the child will want to stay near by to keep glowing.
Perhaps Eng will be able to create this costume by Halloween '07. In the meantime, she's designed a lower-tech lightning bug, using a white spandex top and some strategically-placed battery-powered lights.
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