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8-Bit Tie

David Pescovitz at 1:12 pm Thu, Oct 4, 2007

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8Bittie Originally an April Fools' Day gag, ThinkGeek is now selling their nerdcool 8-Bit Tie. It's a clip-on, 'natch.
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David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • icebat

    So refreshingly nice to see ties that don’t suck!

    More to check out:

    http://cyberoptix.com

    http://www.sovereignbeck.com/

  • Thomas J. Brown

    I’m sad that it’s a clip-on, but that didn’t stop me from ordering one yesterday.

    Excuse me while I go buy a short-sleeved dress shirt.

  • Dewi Morgan

    I only see two bits. Light blue, dark blue, black, transparent. Personally I think “two-bit tie” sounds punnier anyway. But it’s not really the number of bits that matters: a black tie isn’t called a “one-bit tie”. This is probably better called a “low-res tie”.

  • Ben

    My pal Jack — who goes by the stage name Jack Flash when fronting Chicago “Sex Rock” band Bang! Bang! — makes some pretty awesome lightning bolt ties:

    http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/wayw/070706/

  • Evaloushun

    That is the coolest thing I have seen in awhile. It’s startling at first glance.

  • Ashley

    This would be 100x better if it wasn’t clip-on. No way I could get myself to wear a clip-on tie (8-bit purism notwithstanding).

    I dunno, if it wasn’t a clip-in, you’d probably get pixels sticking in when you tried to tie it.

    I reckon that’s a really neat piece of tie though. Not sure if I’d ever have a chance to wear it, but yeah. Still neat.

  • Adam

    This would be 100x better if it wasn’t clip-on. No way I could get myself to wear a clip-on tie (8-bit purism notwithstanding).

  • Depeche Mike

    As nice as the tie is I (obviously) really like the Violator tattoo on the guy modeling it.