Last Year's Gadgets Get New Life As... Jewelry 249
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?"
Not all that new (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not all that new (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! I thought my wife had a lot of earrings!
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sigh
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I tried to turn my old 486 into a keychain, FWIW, but that didn't work at all...
8088 earrings, though? Wow... (Besides - why not 6502 earrings?)
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Re:Not all that new (Score:5, Funny)
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The interface on her ears were port mapped, not momory mapped
ba ding ching...
Re:Not all that new (Score:5, Funny)
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
Actually (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:Not all that new (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not all that new (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:Not all that new (Score:2)
As for large keychains, I actually know a girl with about 20 or 30 keychains on her keychain (as in, to avoid damaging her car's ignition, she has to have removable keys), with an ultimate goal of getting it as tall as she is (5'1")... It's already about 1.5-2' tall (and that was when I last saw her - about a month ago...) Crazy, isn't it? My keychain holds: a 30-pin SI
Re:Not all that new (Score:2)
On the keychain note, the largest I've had mine was long enough to reach the floor of the car (maybe two and a half feet?) and incorporated a ring from a towel rack (about 8" in diameter). Now it's just a bunch of useless junk on the old ball-chain my dog tags were on.
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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.
Re:Not all that new (Score:2)
These chips weren't small and light... I hope your wife doesn't wear them for a too long period of time otherwise she'll get her ears stretched to her elbows!
And that's the kind of overclocking you don't want.
Re:Not all that new (Score:2, Interesting)
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...)
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Cute girl in the IT department? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cute girl in the IT department? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cute girl in the IT department? (Score:2, Funny)
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 06:39:35 -0700
From: Chlorinated B. Due
To: Ryanov
Subject: Do IT with woman 8-)
www.urfnyvu0g5u2yvc.defeasemc.com
Same one as the... (Score:2)
Re:Cute girl in the IT department? (Score:4, Funny)
The one with a secretary.
wonderful (Score:5, Funny)
But seriously, anyone who would actually wear this stuff has enough old parts lying around to make his own SCSI cable, RAM-encrusted thong.
Re:wonderful (Score:2)
Re:wonderful (Score:2)
SCSI thong?
I was thinking more along the lines of granny underwear. SCSI Ultra Wide.
-Laxitive
Re:wonderful (Score:2)
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More Stuff? (Score:2)
Another link (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.zellestyle.com/catalog/index.htm [zellestyle.com]
I'd be in the doghouse (Score:2)
I guess if it were functional I could see using the IDE belt. You could hook a couple hard drives in holsters off the belt and hot plug the cable into your computer.
nothing new here move along (Score:2)
Re:nothing new here move along (Score:2, Interesting)
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:hmm (Score:2, Funny)
and they can only take so much of a difference in potential before the blow up and leave.
Re:hmm (Score:5, Funny)
thinkgeek... (Score:2, Informative)
dc
Strangely targetted? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Strangely targetted? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Strangely targetted? (Score:3, Funny)
286/386 Key Ring (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:286/386 Key Ring (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:286/386 Key Ring (Score:3, Insightful)
Another fathers day gift gone horribly wrong (Score:3, Funny)
More practical stuff... (Score:4, Informative)
Keychain made out of an old/dead CPU - if it's ceramic, don't bother. If it's organic (like a P3, some socketed K7s, P4, P-M, or K8) or plastic (like some Pentiums (Classic and MMX), socketed Mendocino Celerons), it's fairly easy.
Now, I just want to meet the girl that would wear the capacitor necklace... I've got dibs on her
Re:More practical stuff... (Score:3, Funny)
You can have her.
OT (Score:2)
Re:OT (Score:2)
However, a revision system could be put in place. There's still SOME potential for abuse, though...
Quantazelle (Score:3, Informative)
You should listen to "late Blazing Kinch Theme"
Crazy talented this girl is.
Re:Quantazelle (Score:2)
http://www.myspace.com/quantazelle [myspace.com]
Hmmm... (Score:3, Funny)
Two words: tinned leads (Score:2, Insightful)
On the other hand, the stuff looks really cool and a lot the items don't have that problem.
Re:Two words: tinned leads (Score:2)
How is this remotely new or interesting? (Score:5, Insightful)
Hell, I'm holding in my hand a keyring made out of a pentium cpu die sealed in plastic. It's so old it's not even cool to carry around any more.
so I'm asking, what exactly does it take to make a front page story on Slashdot? I submitted a report on Dotster.com compromising customer PII data and trying to cover it up, but that didn't even warrant a "go F*ck yourself".
I'll bet if I skid marked my underwear and it looked like Steve Jobs hugging Larry Ellison it'd be the story of the day.
Re:How is this remotely new or interesting? (Score:2, Troll)
Re:How is this remotely new or interesting? (Score:2)
I stand corrected. I'm sure you'll look very pretty.
Dupe! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dupe! (Score:2, Funny)
Slashdotters looking to woo (Score:2)
"that cute girl in the IT department," is not going to want IT jewelry that isn't functional. Women don't want to have obsolete technology turned into ear or neck decoration unless it doesn't have sharp edges, looks very cool, or is made by their kid.
Try giving a 256MB USB 2.0 keychain drive instead on a necklace if you want to be popular. Keep the 286s in a box at home to show your grandkids.
Re:Slashdotters looking to woo (Score:2)
That actually applies for ANY girl that doesn't have one, and moves files around much at all. It's a gift that they'll use every day, and it's ever so slightly geeky that it'll remind them of you. The girl that I gave one to isn't in to computers, but she's not an idiot. Also, she's kinda geeky herself (as in, if I had to describe whose personality she most resembled of anyone I know, I'd
Cute girls in the IT departments? (Score:2)
Re:Cute girls in the IT departments? (Score:2, Funny)
BTDT (Score:2)
Nobody bought them then, either. They were too common, too easy for any geek to make.
These days, my jewelry is less geeky, and far more salesworthy. I learned.
"Ohms been thinking about you..." (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"Ohms been thinking about you..." (Score:2)
heavy metals + jewlery != good idea (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:"Ohms been thinking about you..." (Score:2, Funny)
Awww, cut the guy a little slack... he's just trying to make sparks fly.
Earrings..? (Score:2)
Slashdotted (Score:2)
http://www.elsewares.com.nyud.net:8090/commerce/i
http://mirrordot.org/stories/0f913e82ea69e3b260d1
Don't forget... (Score:5, Funny)
"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....
Wow... (Score:2)
I'd like to see... (Score:2)
Two words (Score:2)
Cufflinks... CueCats
Other art from computer parts? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Other art from computer parts? (Score:2)
This has been around a lot longer... (Score:5, Interesting)
In 1982, Khan wore a pretty cool necklace. [livejournal.com] [0]
Definitely in the same vein as capacitors and IDE cables...
-F
[0] Geez, I need to get decent picture hosting...
Boston's Computer Museum (Score:2, Interesting)
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
Coaxial Ethernet T-Connectors (Score:5, Funny)
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.
OLD (Score:2)
Earrings... (Score:2)
Wow... Look at THOSE big cans!
But can she turn my broken iPod... (Score:2)
Isn't that what Apple's recycling program [slashdot.org] is there for?
Jacob Nielsen's cartoon says this best. (Score:2)
I mean, who doesn't? (Score:2)
They want RAM.
Samurai armor (Score:2)
Ethernet jewellery (Score:2)
Re:Great idea (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:Great idea (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Great idea (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great idea (Score:2)
Please hand over your geek card and exit the room...
Re:Great idea (Score:2)
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Re:already been doing this...... (Score:2)
Re:Cheap and ugly. (Score:2)
Personally, I see the audioplug necklace [fractalspin.com] as something pretty much anyone would see as cool. Especially if she's into DJing or just live music in general.
But the Cat5 bracelet [fractalspin.com]? It just looks like a bunch of 10 cent wire strands attached to a clasp. I wouldn't recommend that unless you wanted to be both ripped of and have your girlfriend break up with you.
Re:Subversive (Score:2)
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Re:Get new life? (Score:2)