Aug 20 2008Solar Panel Tie Can Charge Your Gadgets
This solar panel tie collects light and, through a process that even Scientologists don't understand, converts it to usable energy. The tie has a little pocket on the back that stores the gadget you're charging, and is completely impractical. I'm all for green shit (figuratively), but I just don't see these catching on. The majority of guys that have to wear ties (like me) work in fluorescent cubicle farms where this thing would get little to no charge. I mean, I can't even see a freaking window from here. We used to have one, but management boarded it up when they found out we liked looking out of it. What somebody needs to do is invent solar powered hard hats or something a landscaper would wear, like, I dunno, a suntan. Oh my God, I'm brilliant.
Hello, patent office? Are you sitting down? Good, now put this in your pipe and smoke it -- solar-powered suntans! I drew a picture and everything. Well, it's on a bar napkin, so I'll just tell you -- it's a really tan guy on a lawnmower charging a boombox. It's great, he's got a cord coming out of his belly button and everything. Hello? HELLO?
Solar Powered Tie Seems Great, Probably Won't See Much Light [ohgizmo]
Reader Comments
1. Clint - August 20, 2008 1:48 PM
First! Terrible idea... tackier than most ties I've seen.
2. Sell Porn Make Money - August 20, 2008 1:49 PM
What an ass clown this guy is.
3. Derwin - August 20, 2008 2:03 PM
Holy shit, is that Casey Tatum? Someone call the Muscles Hotline!
4. el - August 20, 2008 2:12 PM
well for the record, i'm all for green shit. literally.
wait, what?
5. jim - August 20, 2008 2:19 PM
if this tye weren't so f***ing tacky, i think i would be the first in line for one. i love ties.
6. David - August 20, 2008 2:20 PM
HEY ASSHOLE
how is this a bad product
i invented this
7. Jimmy - August 20, 2008 2:38 PM
Jeans and a tie, nice. Bating for both teams.
8. Roflmao - August 20, 2008 3:21 PM
Yeeeeeah good work David, because cavorting around in the sunlight in a suit jacket and tie is quite practical, here's my next product... solar charging cave fish.... i think it'll be a big hit.
dumbass
9. Pickens - August 20, 2008 4:20 PM
This product was obviously intended for Jehovas Witnesses and encyiclopedia salesman to recharge their i-pod nanos
10. Konkey Dong - August 20, 2008 4:59 PM
yea moron. now make a solar powered parka and solar powered wool long johns. and include an excercise bike that generates electricity. id love to use these in the sun. because i am green. the greenest, in fact.
11. Meaty Urologist - August 20, 2008 8:59 PM
That chick in the picture can _totally_ charge my gadgets, if you know what I mean. You know, the chick wearing... the... tie.
Shut up.
12. guate6 - August 21, 2008 3:19 PM
ghey!
13. logicmuch - August 24, 2008 8:29 PM
yeah..... because the type of guy that wears this tie is gonna see a lot of sun light.......
14. Eric - August 16, 2009 12:55 PM
So does this thing have silicon cells embedded in it or the newer tech. ie amorphous/spray on cells? It seems like we could be applying solar electricity to better applications, no offense. Remember the first tax credit era with Carter? We had hundreds of overnight experts peddling crap and giving solar energy a bad name. Honestly, a not a bad novelty, but lets start taking solar energy seriously and use it where it counts. I stumbled upon this while looking for a tie that has a solar panel print on it to wear to interviews. This is just silly.