Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Sealing tape that looks like hinges

Cory Doctorow at 10:18 pm Thu, Jul 22, 2010

— FEATURED —

Science

Last chance to enter the Armchair Taxonomist challenge!

Book Review

Black Code: how spies, cops and crims are making cyberspace unfit for human habitation

Book Review

We Can Fix it! - a graphic novel time travel memoir

Science

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle

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

XTape (via Super Punch)

  • This is Spinal Tape: adhesive tape with vertebrae
  • Massive packing-tape spider-web
  • Duct-tape Converse

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

MORE:  Art and Design

More at Boing Boing

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

Hackers prepare for first "national holiday" in their honor

  • 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!