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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. Another link by modifried · · Score: 5, Informative

    I ran across a link involving the same jewelry not long ago. In case (read: when) the main site gets slashdotted, or if one just wants to see all products without pagination, you can view them all here:
    http://www.zellestyle.com/catalog/index.htm

  2. Re:Great idea by Lord+Ender · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is slashdotted, but I think we can assume the caps are in series or not connected to eachother. A large series of caps isn't going to be dangerous. Neither are individual ones.

    A large number of caps in parallel might be bad if someone intentionally charged them, but I can't see how that could happen accidentally.

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  3. Re:Great idea by dancpsu · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, the capacitor necklace is like one of those costume jewelry necklaces with a black (plastic?) hoop to go around your neck, and semicircular rings hanging from the front with other semicircular rings hanging from them. This is sort of like a short netting with the capacitors hanging down. So it appears that some of the capacitors would be in parallel, but I don't think they are actually attached electrically. Also there are only six of them, and they are probably in the 50-100uF range, so they wouldn't pack much of a punch.

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  4. heavy metals + jewlery != good idea by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.

    Yep, when she gets sick from the heavy metals in capacitors.

    Seriously- someone needs to tell this woman that a fair bit of the stuff in electronic components is TOXIC, and very much so.

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