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Etsy seller Beth Tastic took photographs and coated them with resin to produce this gorgeous bracelet. It’d be a fine way to preserve special memories.
Link -via Dude Craft
Bandoleer Magnetic Bracelet – $14.95 
Stylish jewelry isn’t unusual – but stylish and fun? Here’s a clever jewelry called the Bandoleer Magnetic Bracelet from the NeatoShop. It’s composed of sturdy little magnetic "bullets" that come apart and snap back together to create – literally – wearable fun.
Take a look at what it can do:
Guys, get a jump on Valentine’s Day and get one for your loved ones (and then, you can um, investigate the bracelet yourself, of course! Strictly for scientific purposes): Link| More Magnet Fun
In the early 1970s, millions of Americans bought and wore metal bracelets inscribed with the name of one American who was missing in action or a POW in Vietnam. Those bracelets were the project of Carol Bates Brown, who was a student at what is now Cal State Northridge and a member of the conservative student group Voices in Vital America (VIVA).
Brown became national chairwoman of the bracelet campaign for VIVA and worked six days a week, from morning to midnight. “My mother would find me asleep in my bed covered with checks and bank deposit slips,” she said. She eventually dropped out of school.
“There was something about a specific name being on them,” said Brown, 62, who went on to work on POW/MIA issues for the nonprofit National League of Families and later for the Pentagon. “People made a personal connection — ‘I’m watching out for this guy.’”
The plight of the POWs gave people a way to separate their feelings toward policymakers from their feelings toward those who fought in the war — a shift in public attitude still evident today. Whatever people think of U.S. policy on Iraq and Afghanistan, support for the troops remains strong.
Over the years, many who wore the bracelets got in touch with “their” POW if they returned from the war, or their survivors. The L.A. Times talked with several veterans who were contacted and the civilians who sought them out. Some have stayed in touch for many years. Link -via Fark
(Image credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times)
PS: The POW whose bracelet I wore has never been found.
Would you like for people to be able to keep constant tabs on what you’re doing with your hands? Well, then, good news! A Japanese firm named NTT is working on a gadget that will do just that:
The bracelet is equipped with a special mini camera, a microphone, and sensors for acceleration, light and direction.
The acceleration sensor measure how the user’s hands move, while the camera detects the color and other details of an object one’s hand. At the same time, the built-in microphone picks up nearby sound. Needless to say, all data can be sent to a computer and processed.
Link | Photo: CrunchGear
Is it a bracelet or a watch … or both? Here’s a minimalist wristwatch by Hiranao Tsuboi of 100%:
The eye-catching watch uses LED digits built into the elegant black brushed-metal wristband, negating the need for a traditional watch face altogether.
Tsuboi’s watch also has no name – it’s a one of a kind exercise made especially for Tokyo Design Week 2008.
That may not be the case for long, though… reaction to the watch has been overwhelmingly positive and it’s likely one of Japan’s specialty retailers will introduce a version of the faceless watch sometime soon. One might say, it’s only a matter of time.
Link – via modernurbanliving
