Sealing tape that looks like hinges

Mmiinn's XTape is clear adhesive tape printed with trompe-l'Å“il hinges, to make it appear that your boxes are sealed with brass hardware. They ship next autumn.

XTape (via Super Punch)

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jungletek

WTF/LOL!?

Why?
gravytop

Did I actually surf somehow into an old Spencer Gifts catalog?
- Jonathan Badger
  
  They look like brass. Brass=Steampunk. Anything Steampunk or Disney related gets grandfathered in as a “wonderful thing” here.
Taro 3Yen

Screw steampunk.
Too trite.
I want rivet tape like the bulkheads of Buck Rogers’s “ESS Pioneer”!
sidb

See also: This Is Spinal Tape. http://boingboing.net/2010/04/23/this-is-spinal-tape.html
cjp

Want.
invictus

…aaaand 503 error on the server.

Damn you, bb effect!
Talia

What’s with people being grouchy about this? This is AWESOME. I’m in agreeance with CJP – WANT!

Most definitely a wonderful thing.
jediknight36

So, when I click the link for XTape, I get a Japanese error page. Anyone want to post a working link?
Pantograph

I’m all for it, but if using this tape means that my boxes ship next autumn, then I’ll stick to regular tape for now.
Donald Petersen

Want? NEED!!!!
MarlboroTestMonkey7

Does it comes in a box sealed with real or fake hinges?
EH

Looks like metal. Yup, it’s probably a bomb. Can’t be too careful. Boom.
hinges

Woah. What?
dross1260

*Not recommended for kitchen cabinets.
Anonymous

I saw a woman yesterday who had a hinge design tattooed on the inside of her elbow. It was pretty cool! I asked her about it and she said her dad had one too.
Anonymous

Also, stick bits of it on the edge of a table for a really uncreative ‘balancing’ trick.

Bonus: doors fixed with tape, in thereifixedit style.

I still can’t shake the optical illusion!