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Wedding Rings Made From Space Gold

3:00AM November 16, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

Space Gold, as we all know, is the rarest and most-expensive form of precious metal known to ma — wait, whaddya mean it’s just regular gold that’s been shot into space? And they want how much?!?! More »

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Location-Based Jewellery Helps The GPS Obsessed Accessorise

12:40PM September 27, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

This pendant from Fluid Forms will knock the socks off your location-crazed friends and bore the uninitiated who think GPS is an acronym for Great Public Schools. More »

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The iNecklace Shows Strangers If You’re Turned On

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10:00AM September 2, 2011 | Alex Kidman

OK, it doesn’t actually indicate your arousal. But the folks behind the iCufflinks are at it again, with a glowing power button necklace that looks suspiciously like the power button found on a certain computer company’s systems. More »

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X-Ray Shows Dog Ate $US10,000 Worth Of Diamonds

11:02PM August 25, 2011 | Casey Chan

Turns out, carbon, which diamonds are made of, don’t actually show up in X-rays. They do, however, come up as blank spots and that’s how jewellery shop owner Chuck Roberts found out his dog, Honey Bun, had eaten his diamonds. More »

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Breil Watches Ooze Intelligence, Style, A Bit Of Sex

1:20AM July 16, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

It’s easy to see where designer Matthew Lovell took his inspiration for in these Breil watches – the clue’s in the first two letters of their name. Unfortunately they’re just pixels on a screen for now :( More »

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Human Hair Necklaces. Why?

2:00PM July 5, 2011 | Adrian Covert

These necklaces made from human hair are kind of gross to look at to be certain. But according to Kerry Howley, the artist responsible for these, um, things, that’s kind of the point. More »

Gadgets

Does The Nixon Genie Watch Think It’s A Magic 8 Ball? ‘Yes’

7:00PM June 9, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Nixon’s Genie wristwatch has a multiple personality disorder – it thinks it’s a Magic 8 ball! Not only can it tell the time, date, and act as a timer or stopwatch, it can also answer questions with 15 random messages. It’s $US120, and available in a range of colours. [Nixon via Hypebeast via OhGizmo]

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Leica Rings Made Of Precious Metal Still Cheaper Than Real Thing

10:00AM May 31, 2011 | Michael Zhao

The wedding band is a time-honoured tradition since marketers first convinced us we needed them in the late 1940s. Nowadays, they’re ubiquitous and for the most part undifferentiated. More »

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A Wrench Necklace

9:20AM May 26, 2011 | Max Behrman

The makers of this necklace say it’s a “Honeycomb pendant with cord”. But we all know what we’re looking at: a set of four wrenches that hangs around your neck. It fits 8, 10, 12 and 14mm bolts. And in my opinion, $US55 for a set of four wrenches and a necklace is a pretty good bargain. [Blend Creations]

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Old Tech Reincarnated As New Bling

2:40PM May 10, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Where does technology go when it dies? If it’s lucky, designer Paola Mirai snaps it up and incorporates it into her Cirkuita collection, a mix of jewellery that combines circuits and transistors and other gear ephemera with a material called orotransparente to create wearable pins, rings and baubles. Beats the junkyard afterlife, that’s for sure. [Paola Mirai via Sullepunte via Design Milk]