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Last Year's Gadgets Get New Life As... Jewelry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the martha-stewart-living dept.

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?"

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  1. Not all that new by lordkuri · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had a keychain of a 4MB DIMM stick for years, and my wife has 8088 earrings =)

    1. Re:Not all that new by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      my wife has 8088 earrings

      Wow! I thought my wife had a lot of earrings!

    2. Re:Not all that new by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: 5, Funny

      Please let this get popular....
      please let this get popular....
      Dude, if I could get away with giving my wife an old commodore 64 part on a rope to wear as a neclace instead of some gold crap, I would be soooo happy.
      Remember those clocks rappers wore around their necks in the early 90's? Maybe the next fashion will be CRT's haning around the neck....
      I am sure there is some way I could fashion an old dot matrix printer into a sex toy... just give me time

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    3. Re:Not all that new by obeythefist · · Score: 4, Funny

      Duh, the heatsinks would break her neck!

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    4. Re:Not all that new by /ASCII · · Score: 3, Funny

      Where have you been? Having a TV on your belly is all the rage with the kids these days.

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  2. Cute girl in the IT department? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which IT department is that?

    1. Re:Cute girl in the IT department? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's what I told them. "I'll take the job, but all my techs must be super models (or at least HOT transvestite porn stars) in tight leather hot pants.

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    2. Re:Cute girl in the IT department? by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 3, Funny

      > Which IT department is that?

      The one with a secretary.

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  3. wonderful by Lord+Ender · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. hmm by hotgirlgamer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I really don't see this stuff catching on, diodes aren't a girls best friend.

    1. Re:hmm by Panaflex · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd have to disagree...

      Men are like transistors.. they turn on easily, and when they're done they turn off. Problem is, they can't handle much current or they overheat and blow out.

      Women are like diodes.. they turn on, but only when things are going their way. Better yet, they can take the current and they run forever.

      -Pan

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    2. Re:hmm by Everleet · · Score: 4, Funny

      But only transistors can perform complex logic.

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  5. Re:Strangely targetted? by st0rmshad0w · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wired subscribers?

  6. Another fathers day gift gone horribly wrong by SimplyBen · · Score: 3, Funny

    thank god i don't have any kids

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  7. Dupe! by slapout · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh wait, it isn't. Sorry, I just got so used to it :-)

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  8. "Ohms been thinking about you..." by citking · · Score: 4, Funny
    Many of her pieces would be a perfect gift for...that cute girl in the IT department....
    Somehow I think that giving a cute girl (whether she works in an IT department or not) a capacitor necklace would make for a pretty awkward moment. Especially if they weren't totally discharged....
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  9. Don't forget... by citking · · Score: 4, Funny

    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....

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  10. Re:More practical stuff... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've seen the girl who would wear the capacitor necklace.

    You can have her.

  11. Coaxial Ethernet T-Connectors by xTown · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  12. Actually by mindaktiviti · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!