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This idea is for people who have too many ties, and keep
buying new ones. It's a tie that you can modify. You plug it
into the computer, pick a
shade of color or pattern, the color is sent via infrared to
the tie, which changes color, then you put the tie on. All
you have to do
is
buy it,
and you have millions of different ties at your
fingertips.
Problems include selecting a color, shade, pattern....
Get a bolo
http://www.solaractiveintl.com/laces.htm
...and wear a color-changing shoelace. [DrCurry, Oct 17 2004]
Flexible, pliable display
http://www.sciam.co...B9-BDC0809EC588EEDF
Colour and knotability can't be far behind... [friendlyfire, Oct 17 2004]
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"This idea is for people who have too little cash." - how can a color-changing tie with a USB port POSSIBLY be cheaper than picking up a half-dozen polyester jobs in Chinatown? [marked–for–deletion] magic. |
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DrCurry, you would only ever need one tie, so it would almost certainly make economic sense in the long run. However, the initial outlay of the tie and a computer might be problematic to someone with too little cash. |
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Possibly this tie has an LCD face. And you could program it to change to something sportier as soon as you left the office. Somewhat later that evening, perhaps it could even flash subliminal messages... |
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Screw static ties. I want an animated one. Maybe a TV display tie. Or one with a little video camera that shows what I'm seeing. Or fish. I want an animated fishtank tie. |
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Won't fly with current technology. Any materials that you used to make a decent tie like this would be expensive at best, impractical to manufacture at worst. Think how silly a tie made of a plastic-type material would look...didn't that fad die in the 80's? |
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Whether it looks silly or not, I think this is plausible and don't think it should be MFD. That means you, [DrC] ;-) |
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I want a colour LCD tie, connected to a little camera attached to the back of my collar. Turn in on and it will look like you are looking right through me! |
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