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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?"
has this stuff already been on ThinkGeek? http://www.thinkgeek.com/apparel/jewelry/67b3/
Intel has been doing for years (probably other chip makers too). Back in the late 80s, Intel produced a marketing tidbit key ring that had a 286 die on one side and a 386 die on the other embedded in a flat hexagon of resin. The dies were mounted on something printed with some bubbly marketing speak about power for today/ power for tomorrow yada yada yada...
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
Hmm... my 30-pin SIMM keychain had been working as RAM from 1993 (module date code is 9308, which places the manufacturing in February 1993) until September 2003. In October '03, IIRC, it was reapportioned as a keychain. The gold is wearing off the connectors, and the edges of the ICs are worn down, but they're most definitely still there.
true. a few years ago the new telco replaced all the lines in my country. there was a LOT and i mean a FUCKING LOT of CAT3 of all sorts of colors, and all kids were wearing them!
Yeah, I've got a celeron on my keychain. In my spare time I pulled the pins out of it. I used to wear a 78-pin SIMM on my dog tags, but that got too scratchy. My old business partner had a 30-pin SIMM on his.
:) It's a pity the yen coins I had fell off of it.
It's not just computer stuff. A good friend of mine wants to drill a hole in a d100 (a 100-sided "die" used in rpg's) to put on his keychain. I know several people that have d20's.
Of course, my keychain is frikkin' huge, but it has to be or I'd lose it
Anyone ever notice how hard the ceramic-like material that makes up a 1st generation pentium is? That's stuff's hard to drill through.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Seriously, I can't be the only one who does this: http://www.deviantart.com/view/18247115/
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...than most of you thought... Indeed, even longer than a few of y'all have been alive.
In 1982, Khan wore a pretty cool necklace. [0]
Definitely in the same vein as capacitors and IDE cables...
-F
[0] Geez, I need to get decent picture hosting...
Back in the early 90s I remember the Computer Museum in Boston having a bunch of stuff like this for sale in their gift shop. I still have a 3 ring binder that was constructed out of discarded PCBs(chips removed).
Unfortunately Boston's Computer Museum closed in 1999, but apparently the computing artifacts it contained are now at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. If it's anything as nice as Boston's old Computer Museum, it's definately worth a trip for anyone in that area. I thought the room-filling exhibit of just a piece of ENIAC was worth the price of admission alone.
I had one made out of a 1MB SIMM, but after airport security spent 10 minutes checking it out one day, I decided to go back to something more conventional.
(The stupid thing is that they let my wife through with her keys no problem, and she has a car fob on it. Gee, live electronics, with buttons. What could that be used for? Obviously the stick of RAM missing a couple of chips and no obvious power source was more threatening...)
It's not just computer stuff. A good friend of mine wants to drill a hole in a d100 (a 100-sided "die" used in rpg's) to put on his keychain. I know several people that have d20's.
Somewhat OT, but I made up a giant fuzzy d10 (Mage style) from wire and felt fabric for a friend of mine once. He wanted a 20, but a d10 was hard enough to put together. It ended up looking... well... decent?, although it was a little bit large to go from the rearview.
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
I broke an 80186 in a square ceramic package with gold traces radiating out from the die when I was trying to drill it. I had better luck using a diamond glass grinder in a pillar drill, but it was slow progress.
Some years ago, while installing hardware for a lan-party, my belt broke... Hand-holding my pants for three days wasn't an option, so I took a spare CAT-5 cable and used it as a belt. To make it a little more fashionable, I made some eight-shaped knots as a belt buckle. This added the benefit of having a way to actually close the belt.
With two RJ-45 connectors hanging from both of my sides, I really wanted to plug myself on the router...
It was the fastest belt I ever had: 100 Mbit (and full-duplex)!
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