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October 12, 2009 10:23 AM PDT

Portal Shirt lets you simulate teleportation

by Damian Koh
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Electronic components are removable from the shirts so the garments can be washed.

(Credit: ThinkGeek)
Update at 4:21 p.m. PDT: As some of our readers pointed out, this shirt first appeared on ThinkGeek as an April Fools' joke. Our bad. We'd still like to see a shirt like this one day, though.

Like huh? Unlike the Wi-Fi Detector and Dynamic Life T-shirts, which could be considered moderately useful, the Interactive Portal Shirt from ThinkGeek simply doesn't seem viable. Mounted in front of the apparel is a wireless 5.8GHz pinhole camera and TFT (thin film transistor) LCD display. The shooter projects what you see to the person wearing the other shirt by displaying it on the wearer's screen and vice versa, creating an imaginary portal between the two people.

It's completely useless if you buy only one shirt since the "portal" requires a pair to work. Two shirts, by the way, will empty $200 from your wallet.

(Source: Crave Asia)

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by skrillet October 12, 2009 11:52 AM PDT
Please tell me you are not serious. This was one of Think Geeks April fools gags.
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by blubbabutter October 12, 2009 1:46 PM PDT
Now that's change you can believe in!
by TheAtomicSoul October 12, 2009 12:19 PM PDT
OLD: I swear I saw this a year ago.
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by ice_man01 October 12, 2009 12:58 PM PDT
seriously!? Just tape a mirror to your shirt and save your money!
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by Cnetseal1 October 12, 2009 1:10 PM PDT
So they did all this just to create a mirror?
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by Jseymour23 October 12, 2009 1:42 PM PDT
Click a size and hit buy....yeah...there ya go. Only a few months late.
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by mjn507 October 12, 2009 2:34 PM PDT
The cake is a lie.
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by October 12, 2009 5:52 PM PDT
This is one of their april fools jokes.

And unlike the sound track t-shirt this one did not end up as an actual product.
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by soyamonger October 12, 2009 7:46 PM PDT
They're not (in theory) the same as having a mirror on your chest. Each one displays what the *other* person is facing. So yeah, if you and a buddy are facing each other, each does work like a mirror (except that the image is not reversed as in a mirror). HOWEVER...if your buddy is down the street at the bakery, then when you look at your own chest you see that your buddy is buying cake. Or possibly lying about cake. Anyway, yeah. April Fools! In October...
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by W N W October 13, 2009 5:45 AM PDT
You're kidding, right? $200 for this? I guess it could appeal to a certain portion of the population. But I don't see which portion and I am not a part of it. I really can't think of anything nice to say about it, so I will end this comment now.
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by Joshua Kwoon October 13, 2009 6:44 AM PDT
Until they a real portal is created, this might be as close as you can get. But even if it was on sale, $200? You're better off using a two-way remote surveillance system that works through satellites. Besides, people will look at you and think "Oh look, a walking TV".
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