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Suggestions for Functional Jewelry?
szyzyg asks: "I'm getting married and my girlfriend and I have been looking around at rings and not really getting anywhere. I have all sorts of high concepts about what this should represent and I keep coming back to the thought 'nothing which is useless can be truly beautiful'. So I've been fighting with the idea of how to make a ring which has some use beyond simple symbolism... concepts like using magnetic minerals to turn it into a compass, or engraving some sort of measuring mechanism into it. So here's the challenge I'm putting to the Slashdot bright idea machine: How do I make a simple piece of jewelry useful? Someone out there must have better ideas."
Add a little James-Bond-Esque laser to it. Just make sure she takes it off with the rest of her stuff before you tie her up. ;-)
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What ever you get, do *not* engrave a date inside - too often it turns out to be a "best before" date.
How about a secret compartment in which you can keep a cyanide pill?
:)
This is cool in a James Bond kind of way AND you will have a quick way out of the marriage if the mother in law gets too much.
People couldn't type. We realized: Death would eventually take care of this.
that when put into the hearth, shows funny-looking script characters on the inside, resizes itself to fit the wearer's finger, and answers to the name of "Precious."
Just go with the twist tie. They have plenty of uses; closing food containers, picking your teeth, manually opening CD-ROM drives, etc.
> 'nothing which is useless can be truly beautiful'.
Give her a diamond. They are very beautiful and you can make pick-up needles from them.
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It informs people as to who is 'off the market'.
This is certainly true - but in another way a ring can say:
"Hey - We can have a bit of fun, and I don't want commitment: I already have somone to do housework/heavy lifting and already have 2.5 children"
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
A diamond ring has the inherent functionality of being able to score glass. With a little practice, she can become adept at permanent warchalking on the windows of businesses with poor wi-fi security.
I have all sorts of high concepts about what this should represent and I keep coming back to the thought 'nothing which is useless can be truly beautiful'.
Just don't tell you fiance this when you have her in bed. She might start asking what her "use" is.
gayest. hrmm, yeah.
why is it that homophobetards always pick the darndest time to call something gay? Oh, this dude is going to marry a women- how gay!
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
How about...
- A flat part with a minute spirit level
- A rad-counter (would have to contain a replaceable detector material)
- A diamond - use to scratch glass, cars etc
;)
- A coil of dental floss
- An engraved protractor
- A Cap'n Crunch decoder ring (the ring as 2+ moving parts)
- (Tricky) make the ring resonate at an interesting frequency
- (Old school) a signet ring
- (Simple) marked edges - the ring can be flipped like a coin to make decisions
- A tiny, hence probably useless, circular slide rule (link)
- Neodymium!
- An induction coil - for when she needs to make a quick electromagnet
- (Cute, but not useful yet) a strand of your DNA - this way she can clone you
- (Awful) an engraved copy of your pre-nuptial agreement
;)
How geeky is this woman exactly?Maybe he could buy a ring that would help you all keep on topic.
Or the ever famous:
"Hey, I was a good catch, but you missed it. Nyaa nyaa."
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
True, however, all male geeks need to be aware that this is one of those sentences for which no interpretation exists that allows for the continued attachment of their testicles to their body.