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T-Sketch The Whiteboard T-Shirt
T-Sketch is not like those shirts made by arrogant companies that put THEIR message on YOUR chest. T-Sketch lets you put YOUR message on YOUR chest.
(T-Sketch shirt with LED whiteboard)
The T-Sketch uses its LEDs to light up your special message:
Anything that’s drawn on the wipe-clean panel activates a glowing light beneath so that it lights up. You can also change the flashing sequence to suit your preference – from a gentle glow right through to a pulsing strobe.
I'd be amazed if anyone but me thought of the thought screen worn by space aliens from another universe in the classic 1931 story The Emperor of the Stars, by that great team Al Schachner and AL Zagat.
Two orange, dome-shaped creatures, somewhat like diving bells. The front of each bell was flattened, and in the center was a huge oval opening, covered by a translucent mica-like substance. Directly over and on each side of the pening protruded two antennae, at the end of which were round faceted knobs...On the translucent mica-like coverings over the orifices, appeared reddish characters...
(Read more about the thought-screen)
Via T-Sketch shirt has a lit-up whiteboard on front.
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