Rings

Gadgets

This Indiana Jones Ring Is Worth Way More Than Any Golden Idol

9:00PM January 25, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

How do you propose to the ultimate Indy fan? Not with snakes or crystal skulls, that’s for sure. You pop the question with the snap of a whip. Or at least a whip ring. More »

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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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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]

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Emoticon Rings Put Your Feelings On Your Fingers

9:00AM April 24, 2011 | Casey Chan

Chao & Eero Jewel from Finland made these hilarious emoticon rings that show happy faces, smiling eyes and other forms of emoticons in ring form. Nothing like expressing your feelings right on your sleeve, er, finger these days, right? Though I do wish I could get a stone face or cry face ring for those darker days (they don’t promote such negativity). More »

Science

The World’s Smallest Wedding Rings Are Made From DNA

6:40AM April 15, 2011 | Casey Chan

To be honest, they’re not really wedding rings. But! The interlocking rings are ridiculously small. These two circular rings of DNA, measuring only 18 nanometres in size, were made by a guy who got married while working on this experiment (thus the name). More »

Mobile

Control Your Phone With A Magnetic Ring

1:40PM April 14, 2011 | Brian Barrett

These days smartphones let you do practically anything, but you still have to reach in to your pocket to use them. Now, researchers at Nokia aim to solve that problem with a magnetic ring dubbed Nenya, after a ring found in The Lord of the Rings, that you can twist around your finger to control your phone. More »

Mobile

The Ultimate Jewellery For The iPhone Fanboy

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2:30PM January 5, 2011 | Nick Broughall

What do you get the Apple Fanboy who has everything? Why not a ring styled after the iPhone 4? More »

Gadgets

Show How Electric Your Love Is With $200 Rings

8:40PM December 29, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

The electricity that courses through your body whenever you’re together. The way you fit perfectly in her arms, powering you up. The voltage you feel as the relationship sours, when you stick your ring into a wall-socket. [Artifacts via DesignMilk] More »

Gadgets

The Gizmodo 12 Days Of Christmas Gift Guide

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3:45PM December 17, 2010 | Nick Broughall

On the fifth day of Christmas, Gizmodo gave to me… More »

Gaming

Your Marriage Will Destroy Your Television

3:00PM November 26, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

You didn’t misread that headline. Your marriage—and wearing a loose-fitting wedding ring while playing Kinect—can destroy your television. More »