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Last Year's Gadgets Get New Life As... Jewelry
Will Sherman writes "Liz McLean Knight, a Chicago native, has applied her interest in electronics, computers, and music to a line of jewelry created under the name, Zelle. The catch? She almost exclusively uses spare computer and electronics parts in her work. Many of her pieces would be a perfect gift for your LAN admin, that cute girl in the IT department, or your favorite DJ. Among other things, she sells a belt made from IDE cable, necklaces made from capacitors, and a cuff bracelet made of midi cables. But can she turn my broken iPod into something wearable?"
I've had a keychain of a 4MB DIMM stick for years, and my wife has 8088 earrings =)
Which IT department is that?
This gets better every time it is posted.
But seriously, anyone who would actually wear this stuff has enough old parts lying around to make his own SCSI cable, RAM-encrusted thong.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
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Maybe she'd be better off using those spare computer parts to build a new server.
[Insert Beowulf cluster joke here.]
I really don't see this stuff catching on, diodes aren't a girls best friend.
Wired subscribers?
thank god i don't have any kids
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I wonder what kind of jewelry she'll make from her newly smoking webserver...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
Oh wait, it isn't. Sorry, I just got so used to it :-)
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"This food is problematic."
Don't forget the perfect pick-up lines when giving your "cute IT girl" her jewelry:
"I want to give you a RAM."
"Can I discharge on you...with my big capacitor?"
"IDE like to get into that belt. Get it? IDE?"
"I'll help you flux that capacitor."
"Here's some RAM so you can always remember me. Yup, all 2 megs of it."
"Hey baby, wanna create some ESD and ruin a few chips? (wink wink)"
"I like it when you talk SCSI."
"I wanna C my P on U."
Ok, I'll stop....
"This food is problematic."
I've seen the girl who would wear the capacitor necklace.
You can have her.
I think the idea is that women, as well as men, can now wear items so geeky that it would actual restore their virginity.
Yes. My IT department has at least 300GB of them.
True story:
About a decade ago, I worked for a midwestern school district. We went around doing general IT work ("everything but pulling cable through the walls") in the schools. Every so often, we'd need to put in Ethernet hubs, and we'd need to hook them together with coax cable.
We all carried a small supply of those little T-connectors and terminators. I chained some together and clipped them to my jacket. It made a nice little dangly. The "fashion" caught on.
One day, my boss called me into her office at the end of the day, laughing. She told me I'd have to stop wearing the connectors on my jacket, because she'd gotten a complaint from the high school that I was walking around...wait for it...with a CRACK PIPE dangling from my chest.
With CRT's that would just bring on neck injury lawsuits.
LCDs however, imagine getting a 15" LCD with a wallpaper of Flavor Flav wearing his clock, all of that hanging from your neck!
Can you tell me what time it is? YEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIII!