High Romance Geek Shirts

Steven Teo at the Cool Business Ideas blog is talking about a geek romance shirt!

ThinkGeek is stepping to the aid of the gift-challenged with a proximity-based T-shirt that lights up when your paramour is near.

Suffering the aching emptiness and despair of being apart from your loved one? The 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirt will register a meager two and a half pixelated hearts. But snuggle up to the object of your affection (who, incidentally, must be wearing a matching black and red T-shirt for this display of devotion to work), and all five hearts on both garments light up in a blaze of cheeky romance and bad style.

I think dressing alike is a fashion faux pas and a bit of too much togetherness, but I could see variations on this being a clever party icebreaker… you’ve got to find the match to your shirt while everyone else runs around looking for theirs. Like speed-dating for geeks!