If you’ve ever wanted to take direct orders from Stan The Man, here’s your chance. Infinite Machines is teaming with Lee to produce electronic rings that will allow you to communicate wirelessly with their online Power Patrol game. The wearer will recieve secret missions from Lee that “only the best and brightest can solve.” The user will then go out and try to find the various posters, fast food displays, trading cards, etc. that will interact with the jewelry to give them clues.
Personally, I wouldn’t feel safe walking around wearing a pinky ring that looks like it could easily take my eye out. You might disagree, however, and be intrigued enough to signe up for the game right now or at least listen to Lee’s podcast about the whole venture right here.
Utilizing Boucard’s FootnoteTM technology, POW! and Infinite Machines will soon introduce POWER PATROL, a new line of digital jewelry and wearables capable of storing and actually transferring digital super powers attained in a secret online game to a set of Power Patrol Rings that can be worn by fans wishing to emulate Super Heroes or Super Villains. The electronic Rings can transfer data back and forth from ring to ring, thus unlocking new powers, games, points and missions for the player or players.
“I’ve written about fictional characters most of my life,” says Stan Lee, “but now that I’m actually working with a real-life superhero the experience is mind-boggling. John Boucard is to inventing as Spidey is to web-swinging. He has a high tech instinct for what the market needs and what the public wants. I predict that by next year his Power Patrol Rings will have become as ubiquitous as your TV’s remote control. And that’s just the beginning for John, who not only thinks outside the box, he can make the box itself interactive!”
