8-Bit Tie

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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• [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.