You’ve heard it said “Necessity is the mother of invention”, well one day I met her distant cousin and ended up with an ipod nano ‘case’ (or pocket) made from a sheet of paper. My shirt had no pockets and I wanted one to put my ipod into, paper was nearby and the photos below show what I ended up with.

The pocket attaches to the back of the tie and is invisible from the front. Neat! A Tie-pod.

Here’s a few photos of how it inserts onto the tie.

The front of the assembled tie-pod

The rear of the assembled tie-pod

The tie-pod inserted onto the tie

Side view of the Tie-pod secured onto the tie

Rear of tie with the tie-pod in place

Front of tie with the invisible tie-pod in place

I’m sure I’ve still got this item around somewhere, so if there’s interest I’ll have a look for it and create a video of the initial origami.

I have made different versions of the tie-pod since, but the initial one shown above is a much sturdier model.

…For extra credit the candidate may route the cabling to the auditory senses via the shirt collar, thus hiding the cabling to the minimum. (I’m sure you can think of uses for this, particularly if you are listening in mono

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