A small, powerful compressor, mounted inside the knot on your tie, with a camera and an array of tiny nozzles, cunningly disguised within the pattern.
When a drip of egg volk or soy sauce begins its descent toward your tie, the camera picks it up and sets off the compressor, which fires a jet of high pressure air through the nozzles, to force it harmlessly away.
If there are a number of such ties being worn at the table then it may be possible to use them to play a game similar to "one bounce" with peas or grains of rice.-- UnaBubba, Jan 22 2013 Might help. FloattieMight not. [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jan 24 2013] these annotations seem to be getting shorter-- Brian the Painter, Jan 23 2013 Meh.-- UnaBubba, Jan 23 2013 self preserving tie I' m a big fan of this concept in any format +-- vfrackis, Jan 23 2013 They're never the same after drycleaning. <insert sad face icon here>-- UnaBubba, Jan 24 2013 material science will solve this within a few weeks of the last tie being worn-- theircompetitor, Jan 24 2013 Good luck with that. They've become rather entrenched.-- UnaBubba, Jan 24 2013 //egg volk//
Egg Reich...-- Wrongfellow, Jan 24 2013 random, halfbakery