Tactical Necktie is What Jack Bauer Would Wear to a Wedding

ThinkGeek is showing off an interesting new product called the Laser-guided Tactical Necktie. It’s aimed at the man who has to wear a tie in the corporate warzone. The necktie goes around your neck like a normal tie, but has special features to help you get ahead in the office – and to torment kitties.

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Up top, the tie has a D-loop where you can attach essentials like a grenade or maybe a can of squeeze cheese. Under that is a removable pouch with a buckle where you can keep matches for starting the fire you use to burn the place down next time your check is late.

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Underneath that pouch is a molle system, which lets you hang more manly stuff, like bacon-wrapped bacon. The coolest part is the laser pointer in a removable pouch on the bottom. With that pointer, you can torment random kitties with the red dot of death or use the laser to burn out the retinas of your enemy in the cubicle next door.

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Now to crush your dreams, this is one of those famous ThinkGeek April Fools’ Day pranks. To give you a bit of hope back, ThinkGeek has a history of making their prank products real – so you never know.

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Rampage Neck Ties: Crush, Crumble and Choke

Remember Rampage? Good times. If you have never played the game, go find yourself an old arcade machine and start pumping quarters into it right now. (Or install MAME.) If you don’t do this, you deserve to miss out and have never played it.

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Mayapixelskaya designed and made this trio of neck ties which celebrate the classic game. They are pretty awesome, showing scenes from the game – though you need to have three necks in order to show off the entire scene at once.

[via Neatorama]

Thanko – USB Necktie Cooler 3 – A tie that cools down your body – Savior of Japanese salarymen in the summer time!

Thanko - USB Necktie Cooler 3 - A tie that cools down your body - Savior of Japanese salarymen in the summer time!

Those who have ever visited Japan in the summer time must remember how brutal Japanese summer is. It’s very hot and humid so that you pour sweat all over your body right after leaving home. Japanese salarymen (meaning corporate employees in Japanese) are poor things because many of them have to put on a tie even in the hottest month of August.

So, we would like to recommend the “USB Necktie Cooler 3″ released by Thanko. It looks like a regular tie at first sight, however you can pull the knot down and a fan shows up. Once you connect the tie to your PC’s USB port with the accompanying USB cable, the fan starts running and cooling down your neck area.

With a portable battery (sold separately), you can run the fan anywhere and anytime without a PC.

This practical tie with some light humor could be a great belated gift for your salaryman dad for Father’s Day.

Price: ¥2,980 (including tax)
Size: 480 x 95 x 24mm (tie part)
Weight: 120g
Power source: USB bus power
Accessory: USB cable

Flask Tie comes with hidden flask inside

Once in a while, a really zany idea crops up – and here we are with the $25 Flask Tie that is clearly pretty much self descriptive. To put it in a nutshell, the Flask Tie would make for the ideal piece in any executive’s wardrobe, although it has an added advantage of sporting a removable hidden flask pouch within. Just in case you were wondering what kind of company is able to think of such an item, it is the brainchild of the very same company that delivered the Pillow Tie to the masses. You will be able to choose from a range of slanty striped color combos, and the hidden pouch within has enough space to hold half a pint (8oz) of your favorite beverage.

If you want to be sneaky about bringing in a little “happy juice” into the office, then the Flask Tie is the way to go. We highly recommend that you do not pour in your favorite hot beverage inside, as it is not going to be too comfortable at all, and neither will it give you the kind of buzz that your “happy juice” would. This seems to be quite a worthy stocking stuffer this coming Christmas, don’t you think so?
[ Flask Tie comes with hidden flask inside copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

8-Bit Bow Tie Makes You a Dapper Player

You’ve been wearing your 8-Bit Tie for so long that your geeky appeal has worn off. Time to shake things up a bit. Get an 8-Bit bow tie. It seems to be made of Perler beads, so you don’t have to worry about fixing it from time to time.

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Etsy seller Clever Trevor sells 8-Bit bow ties for $8.50 (USD) each. Each bow tie is handmade and you can also ask for specific colors or a glow in the dark variant. We need a fabric version of this.


TV Reporter Ties Herself to a Lamp Post to Broadcast In the Middle of a Typhoon [Video]

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so damn scary: this reporter decided to tie herself to a lamp post 20 minutes before typhoon Haikui hit Ningbo, a city on the northeast coast of the Zhejiang province, China. More »