In other news, I guess I wasn’t even in the finalists for the Penguin model search. I guess I’ll stick to writing! Oh well. On to the next project…

I saw this via trendhunter and I’m not sure if it’s real or just a concept, or perhaps a concept that will soon become real. I hope the latter because this is a wildly cool piece of technology. It’s called the Stick Pin Tie Iron and its a dual purpose tie clip. Yes, it holds your tie to your shirt and keeps you looking put together, but it has some sort of ceramic plate on the back that can heat up to a certain degree and then be used as an on the fly tie iron. Drag it up and down along your tie and the heated plate flattens out the wrinkles. It can also be used to dry a damp tie, so when you spill ketchup on your new Thomas Pink cravatte and then pour water on it (because that always works!) you can dry that damp tie and press it at the same time. Again, I don’t know if this is real or even possible, but it is a great idea and a cool mixing of technology and fashion.