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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
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.
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Aug 23, 2005 02:23 AM
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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.
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I wonder how well this would work with (black) electrical tape? Also wonder what it would look like with a black light?
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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.
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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.
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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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