April Fool's Deal: Think Geek Offers Working Portal T-Shirts
Every year on April 1, Think Geek pulls out all the stops with elaborate April Fool's day listings. One year, one of the products, an 8-bit Tie, was so popular they actually ended up making a real item out of it! Now if they could make a real live item out of this one I will be super impressed. For $99 it would be the deal of the millennium.
Interactive Portal Shirt Hello and again welcome to the Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center. As a somewhat sentient machine with an infinite capacity for knowledge I have combined my noteworthy intelligence with the consumer desire fulfillment mechanism of ThinkGeek.com. The goal of this union is to provide you with a fully functional version of the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device in a convenient apparel format.Unfortunately during initial testing of the Interactive Portal Shirts at least 128 testing subjects were injured or maimed while practicing the teleportation procedures. Therefore it was decided to provide a visibly functional version of the Interactive Portal Shirts while forgoing actual teleportation. The finished product you see here uses two wireless 5.8 GHz video cameras mounted in the front of each shirt along with two high-res LCD TFT screens. The camera in the orange shirt transmits the image to the blue shirt, and vise versa. In this manner it seems as if a fully functional portal has been created between the chests of both subjects.
Aperture Science Labs hopes that this impressive simulation of portal technology will encourage additional test subjects to participate in the upcoming double-blind testing of the fully functional "his and hers" portal underwear.
Sign me up! If Tiny and I had these, just think of the things we could do! On second thought, don't think to hard about that...
Portal T-Shirts [Think Geek]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Miscellany on 1 April 2009
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I was totally almost snookered by this very item this morning when I got my email. But, as I read more of the description, I remembered the date.
Too bad there's no way this one will go the way of the 8-bit tie. :/