Inventions: Duct Tape Belts

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Now, if you had to sum up what was wrong with corporate culture you just do a careful reading of the above...

So I won't be submitting my idea to them, but I'll throw it out into the universe anyways: 

Duct Tape Belts. Given how handy Duct Tape is, and how inconvenient carrying around a roll is, why not simply form duct tape into belts - and, if in a pinch you needed some, you could tear off a precut strip. Or the buckle might conceal a cutter, like tape guns have. Belts might be 10 or 20 ply deep, in a wide array of fashionable colors, and would very much suit the "survivalists" or people who always have a Swiss Army Knife or Leatherman on them. Duct tape is handy, but never handy when you really need it. Now it can be. 

Think of the ads - great viral marketing. Couple goes on date. Boring. Belt comes off, and a couple of strips of duct tape (black with a latex finish), date gets interesting...Family goes on vacation...children squalling in the back, out with the duct-tape, happy vacation. And there's more, more, more, Duct Tape - the original utility belt. 

So that's my million dollar idea for the day. I'm throwing it out there. If you make a million off of it make sure you:

1. Remember you saw it here first
2. Don't be a 3M. My idea, we can both be rich here.