USB necktie's much-anticipated followup finally arrives
By Paul Miller 
posted Jun 20th 2008 3:01PM
posted Jun 20th 2008 3:01PM
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posted Jun 20th 2008 3:01PM
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What a waste of materials and money... sadly I still want one.
If only the underside of my chin needed cooling... Now if that was a speaker I would consider it.
Or fan-cooled underwear...
I dunno about you... but I don't want any kind of spinning blade in my underwear...
I'm still holding out for the bowtie version. Instead of containing a fan, it could be the fan.
haha nice answer Shawn
Hot diggity! I'm goin out and getting me a job that requires me to wear a necktie just to buy this.
Or maybe I will just attend random funerals and weddings.....
and carry your laptop with a cable running to your neck...yes...take pictures :D
Brilliant.
this will work perfectly when your out on a date with a hot hot femal companion when she takes you back to her place and wants to watch pron!! Now, fear no more awkward moments of looking on Skin-a-max...simply pop your out your pron filled USB dive from your necktime and take her to the pleasure land
RTFA:
Its a fan, not a storage drive.
ill go ahead and low rank myself
roflcopter
Does the tie have to be plugged into a USB port for it to work? I mean, we can't just walk around with the fan turned on, right?
The tie is so cheap because they are also trying to sell you an ultra-portable to keep it plugged into while you are walking around.
well, I can't read their web-site, but there is a decent image of a battery pack that some guy is putting in his pocket, so I think the USB is either to program it or to charge it?
I thouht it was a Mic, would have been nice.
I thought it was one of those voice boxes for dudes with emphysema.
I find your lack of faith disturbing
-jp
aw, they killed my Darth Vader tags on that quote.
*shakes angry fist* damn you, Engadget!
-jp
I see it also comes with a battery pack, but the cable is black. Very silly.
If anything, this will obviously be a total babe magnet.
How exactly is this neck-tie fan supposed to keep you cool? Does it puff your shirt up like a balloon?
You might get more for your money if it blew air out on other people. Or Maybe not... Would sweaty coworkers get too close for comfort for a bit of your neck-tie breeze?
Drying mode on. Jacket drying.
*Beeeep*
Your jacket is now dry.
"f it blew air out on other people"
there's enough tools at work blowing hot air
What! It does't come in the "pianio key" variety? pshhhht
no...it's a fan in a tie...didn't you even read it?!
I think he wants it to be a piano key tie. Think Mugatu.
It was supposed to be a reply @Jhongerkong, but it screwed up...and I'm not one to make another post explaining what happened.
Too late..... You just did.
Oh it's the comment system that's stupid, not you? (just playing, in case you think I'm being an ass)
Cool, I can power this off my Eee!
Seeing as they made a version 2 of the necktie, does that mean they made a profit on the first one?
my boss just got back from a week long business trip to Japan. He said everyone wears a suit & tie every day and there is a national energy saving program that almost all companies adhere to that keeps the thermostats set @ 84 F. It's hot and humid there all summer, I imagine they sold enough of these there to justify the 2nd model.
Oh yes, I'm so hot! Need some cool air... uh oh. I'm no-where near a computer! I'm on a hiking trail (with a tie, don't ask me why) and I need some cool air! Dang it.
It's got a battery pack too.
The site behind the read link had a novel idea of 'arm supports on rails' that attached to your desk. I would actually use these, I think. It would keep me from resting my entire arm on my wrist like an idiot.
I'm waiting for the ionizing version.... I don't want that muddy ole office blowing right on my mouth.
I'm waiting for the 3G version.
They need to build a laptop as small as a watch that is wirelessly connected with your sunglasses that has multiple functions
1) it functions as a hi-def display. It uses the latest holographic technology and switchable mirrors to project
2) it has build in bone conductors for hi-def audio.
3) it wirelessly transmits your brain thoughts to your laptop for automatic interaction with your laptops OS. It has build in sensors that monitors the neural activity in your brain and converts those signals into operations to control the OS and do what ever you want it to do.
The laptop it self uses the latest wireless and hardware technology like SSD, bluetooth, wireless usb etc.. It houses the latest intel processor.
Is that aimed at this thread? Where we're discussing Thanko's USB-powered neckfantie? It seems... irrelevant, somehow.
Don't mind him. He's been drinking wilcohol.
@ Lowest Rank
I think he's just an Agent Smith...
Somebody tell Steve Ballmer.
I'll wait till they add Bluetooth next year.
Danakin not roflcopter, rofltie
@ bow-tie fan...
Too many Charlie Chaplin and 1930s animated movies for you :P
If they make a piano key version... they DEFINITELY have to be playable piano keys!
maybe apple can come out with the I-tie
steve jobs get on this one quick
The website says:
The battery pack is optional, and the necktail+battery pack is ¥3,680 (¥3,505 tax excluded), which is approx $34.30
Go Go Gadget Necktie Fan!