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Very clever…simple, customisable, do-it-yourself signage system. By “blacking out” elements of a 14-segment display font on the tape, all you need is a black permanent pen to create your own temporary signs, labels and installations. Think moving house and labelling boxes, putting up official-looking signs or teaching your kids how to make letters. [via] Link.
Instant Labeling Tape
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Tuesday August 23rd, 2005 2:23 AM
Categories: Gadgets | 5 Comments
I think I would find this more useful if it was a reusable stencil a few feet long… Temporarily stick it up and black out/fill in the segments you want.
I wonder how well this would work with (black) electrical tape? Also wonder what it would look like with a black light?
Neat idea.
For the activists and flyer-posters in the crowd, this tape makes for legible, removable instant graffiti anywhere you want it.
I recommend they make it in different sizes for various uses. I wonder what other types of white bar patterns you could put on there that people would find useful besides the “LCD” pattern.
I second the stencil comment. As is, it’s just kind of…well, dumb. Sacrificing efficiency for the sake of cleverness, methinks…it would take less time, effort, ink and money to just take a piece of duct tape and write on it.
Someone should really figure out how to print this shit on electrical tape, it even some how stencil it onto electrical tape.
I wanted to buy a roll, but I couldn’t load any of the stores they sell it, they all give 404s and such.
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