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Emergency Morse Tap Shoes
Safety Device for Dancers
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These clever shoes look remarkable like normal tap shoes - but they have a secret. When activated, every heel to toe tap and shuffle is transmitted to a beacon on top of the dance studio/music hall, that then relays to the authorities.

This is handy for dancing spies as well as this rare but possible scenario : your star dancer has been trapped beneath several tonnes of rubble during an earthquake at the Albert Hall - once activated, the tap, tap, tapping of the shoes in morse code will guide search and rescue teams to their location.

Comes in navy and cinnamon.


benfrost, May 21 2005

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       Oookaaayyyy.....

DesertFox, May 21 2005
  

       Maybe they'll try that in the next 007 movie.

squogglewonker, May 21 2005
  

       This would be more interesting if proposed as a more fun way for telegraphers to work, instead of just tapping the morse code with their fingers.   

       Also an alternative: tapped telegrams instead of their sung version (is "sung" a word?).   

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Pericles, May 22 2005
  
      
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