TURN-ONS: Guys who kiss great and have toned backs, blue eyes and a little scruffy facial hair.

TURN-OFFS: Sloppy boozehound slackers who don’t make the effort to step up to the plate- get off your mama’s couch now!

At school Ciara realized her techie wiles had the power to short-circuit the opposite sex. "I was the only girl in my computer class, and because tech talk is like a competition, the guys loved that I could keep up with them," explains Miss Price, who when she wasn’t online as a teenager was pirouetting in dance class. "I was like, Yes! I can finally talk to the boys about something!"

Next on the Maine native’s drop-down menu is a move to Los Angeles, which of course will require packing up her iPad, MacBook, digital cameras, flash drives and whatever cell phone she’s toting around at the moment. Ciara Price is charged up over becoming a Playboy Playmate, an unexpected turn of events that came about when a photographer friend urged her to try modeling, she says, "I’m so proud, excited and, yes, thankful!" Then she winks. "See, I figured I’d be spending the month at my desk back in Maine, but now I’m totally hardwired for the L.A. experience."