Ring Pops are fun, but I light up candy rings are way more fashionable. These would be good for kids, but they would even be awesome for adults going out at night. If you want to make your own, Instructables can teach you how.

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Just about every woman has a ring with jewels on it, but these rings on WebUrbanist are really unique. From the weird and creepy, like the belly button, tooth and pimple rings on the bottom row of the montage, to the cool projector, architecture and book ones on the top row, there are all kinds of fascinating looks for women brave enough to wear them.

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You know what you need? A piece of chicken around your neck. No, really! Let’s say a fried chicken wing, painted a nice shade of pink, and then suspended from a gold chain around your neck. Here, put it on before you go to that job interview. You want to make a good impression, right?

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Do you ever feel like your love of the internet just isn’t obvious enough when you’re away from the computer? If so, you may need to invest in some of the jewelry on this great BuzzFeed list, like these delightful LOL earrings.

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Gone are the times when we actually bothered with… with… what were they called? Photographs? You know — the paper things with people’s face on them and stuff… You used to could put them into jewelry called “lockets” and — get this — wear them around your neck!  Who knew!? Emily Rothschild takes this retro concept and puts it into a turn-of-the-century mourning locket which contains a USB drive. What will they think of next?  Admittedly, it is quite a bit cheaper to get an actual USB drive that resembles a phaser or a Tardis or something more realistic, you can have this nifty piece for $240.

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The snail shells above are simply gorgeous, as are the jewelry made from them. The only problem? The snails are being driven to extinction just so people can makes earrings and necklaces from them. That’s not the only idiotic reason humans have been driving certain creatures to extinction, read the rest over at Cracked. Warning: some of the language is NSFW.

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Artist Jackie Kaufman makes these cool jewelry accessories out of in the noses of people’s pets. The pieces are made by pushing a silicon mold onto the nose of the animal for a second or so and then casting the jewelry in the mold. It’s a great way to immortalize your favorite pet and those who have had the pendants made say their pets weren’t bothered by the process at all.

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Kerry Howley, an art student at Middlesex University, put together a jewelry collection made from human hair. In reference to how people think about hair, she’s entitled it “Attraction/Aversion”. Howley writes:

The necklaces are made of human hair, a material we are familiar with and take pride in. However once off of the body it becomes an innate source of aversion. I wanted to see if I could make discarded hair attractive again.

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Mummy Jewelry Box – $10.95

This is not your Mummy’s Jewelry Box. No, wait! It is your Mummy Jewelry Box.

With this amazing trinket box from the NeatoShop you can keep your prized possessions under wraps.

Be sure to check out all the fantastic Money Banks & Storage items available at the NeatoShop.

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If you really love your dog, you can immortalize its nose in jewelry! Jackie Kaufman makes these necklaces using a mold of your dog’s nose, which you can do yourself using a kit. Find out more at Pawesome. Link

Artist Celina Saubidet creates “Osseus Jewelry,” with designs based on bones, like this silver-plated skeletal hand necklace. Yes, it’s full-size and was inspired by a real skeleton. She also has rings and cufflinks that resemble bones at her Etsy store Link -via Bioephemera

Why have one engagement ring when you can have four? Handmade from sterling silver, the ring features four perfect cubic zirconia crystals and features elaborate detailing.

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Someone bought this necklace featuring a snake fetus in a vial, but the Etsy seller has more vials of creepy things for sale. The necklace is part of a list of 10 Shockingly Creepy Pieces of Taxidermy Jewelry. Bones, feathers, teeth, and other animal parts are available for you to wear. But would you want to? Link

One of the great things about the internet is that designers and manufacturers can find a specialized clientele, and consumers can find specialized items that locals stores cannot afford to stock. Case in point: jewelry that reflects your interest in the geeky worlds of technology, video games, science fiction, and other hobbies. Check out some awesome jewelry items in this list at Oddee, like these circuit board earrings. Link

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

Sensebridge is a hackerspace collective in San Francisco. The members of it created Heart Spark — a piece of jewelry that flashes LEDs to the rhythm of the user’s heartbeat. Its battery life is about eight hours, and it’s made so that the owner can reprogram it.

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Simple Bridge is a piece of jewelry that combines earring and a necklace. The two earrings are connected with a ball chain. From a distance, it looks almost like someone wearing ear buds. Not to be worn on athletic adventures, for obvious reasons. Link -via The Daily What

Whether you think facial jewelry improves your looks or cause what looks like uncomfortable swelling, one thing’s for sure: it certainly draws attention to your face.

I can hear Ahnold say it: It’s not a tumah! It’s facial jewelry: Link

Sculpture

Sculptor Bathsheba Grossman creates metal and crystal artworks of forms found in math, physics, biology, and astronomy. Grossmen shows us Borromean rings, hypercubes, gyroids, fractals, Calabi-Yau spaces, and interlaced sculptures based on the five Platonic solids. I particularly like this Voronoi network wrapped onto a Möbius toroid, sculpted in white glass.

Grossman created this beautiful lamp from one of her Ora series sculptures. Available in several lamp styles from Materialise.

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The Julia set is a fractal equation that produces a series of rather pleasing spirals. Designer Marc Newson took that fractal shape and designed a necklace of 2,000 diamonds and sapphires that took jewelry craftsmen 1,500 hours to put together. Note that the necklace is not symmetrical, but still has a sense of balance. See how the jeweler, Boucheron, advertises the necklace.

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Probably the best known artist to use math concepts in his works is M.C. Escher. Many of his 2-dimensional drawings turned 3-dimensional geometry on its head. The lithograph titled Waterfall illustrates the concept of the Penrose triangle, also called the impossible triangle. Escher also explored tessellations in many of his drawings.

Computer Imaging

Paul Nylander was one of the developers of the Mandelbulb that we saw in a previous math post. He is a computer engineer and an artist who renders math and science concepts into colorful images including animated .gifs to help us visualize their 3- or 4-dimensional structures. Shown is a Dodeca-Spidroball, a variation on the spidron, which was invented by Daniel Erdely in 1979.

Belgian mechanical engineer Jos Leys renders and animates all kinds of math concepts into beautiful forms that boggle the mind. His artworks include fractals, Kleinian groups, inversive geometry, recursions, tessellations, knots, and tilings in both images and video renderings to show 3- and 4-dimensional effects. The image above is called Indra200, an example of “Kleinian jewelry“.

Other artists rendering math images worth checking out include Torolf Sauermann, Brian Johnston, Mehrdad Garousi, and the late Titia Van Beugen.

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Creating visual representations of math concepts became easier with computer rendering software and digital video capabilities. That doesn’t mean it is simple. Homporgo, the artist who created this video of a Mandelbox zoom said in a comment:

Believe me Bill, I wanted to go further too, but at the end part a single frame took 18 minutes to render, and the whole 1:27 minute video needed 12 days nonstop rendering. I felt thats more than enough at the time.

Twelve days! The result looks worth it to me. How about you? See more fractals on video in this post.

Previously at Neatorama: A Non-Math Look at Math Objects and A Non-Math Look at Math Shapes.

Paris-based designer Laurent Milon makes rings decorated with iron filings shaped by magnetism, then galvanized with silver and nickel. He also made a cool video of the process that makes the emerging product look like a living, dancing animal.

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Silversmith and offbeat artist Polly van der Glas creates jewelry made from human teeth, hair, and sterling silver.  Aside from rings, she also makes necklaces, earrings, purses and more.

All works are handmade in Melbourne, with sterling silver, human hair and human teeth. Human teeth are locally donated and sterilised, and human hair is either locally donated or sourced from India and China.

Teeth are particularly difficult to come by, so any donations are gratefully accepted.

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For her senior project in 2002, Molly Epstein of Temple University made a glass-filled nylon necklace that looks like a set of vertebrae. Epstein specializes in synthesizing jewelry and medicine:

During her time at UW, she actively associated herself with engineers and doctors in an ongoing quest to understand what an artist may contribute to medical science. She has literally narrowed the gap between the disciplines by collaborating with Doctor Richard Hopper from Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center on the Patent Pending SAM Device. The Seattle Alar Molding Device is a nasal molding device for children born with varying degrees of the cleft palate deformity. She was also a research assistant for Dr. Murray Maitland from Rehabilitation Medicine at UW and helped bring to life a modified prosthetic hand device.

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The Fibonacci sequence, named after a 13th Century Italian mathematician, is a sequence of numbers in which every third number is the sum of the previous two numbers. This ring and others like it by Etsy seller Holmes Craft is an homage to that mathematical sequence in that the beads are organized according to the first four Fibonacci numbers.

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“If you look at it twice you ought to get a chuckle,” said Barry Schenck of M.M. Schenck Jeweler, “that’s what we are hoping for.”

Schenck says it’s not the first time he’s paid to post more than a dozen billboards before Christmas, but this latest stunt is getting feedback.

“It’s sort of putting a lot of pressure on young men to ask their girlfriends to marry them,” said Carolyn Miller of Chattanooga.

Critics say Schenck’s ploy is in bad taste, but Schenck stands behind the scheme. He says the woman in the picture is no actress.

“She is single, she does have a boyfriend, and she is waiting,” said Schenck.

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Bibliophiles, you can now wear books around your neck! Etsy seller TheBlackSpotBooks offers this necklace with eleven tiny books made from a mix of antique and scrap leather. Each is hand-made and no two are alike. Custom books designs are available by request. Link -via Bioephemera

Artist and designer Anthony Roussel creates intricate jewelry from materials not usually associated with adornments – wood! This one above is a birch wood bangle – you can see more at his website: Link – via a+.29

Delfina Delettrez Fendi (yes, of that Fendi) has a new line of to-die-for jewelry. This skeleton wrist jewelry was part of her debut at the Paris Fashion Show. WWD has the gallery (what’s up with the taxidermied animals as props?): Link – via Haute Macabre

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Baba Akcja’s Sophia Lamp (“2in1 – Lamp and Storage”) is a new way of storing earrings. The perforated lampshade lets you hang your earrings and decorate the lamp into a one-of-a-kind art project!

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Times are tough, and money is spread pretty thin, so you probably want to sell some of your stuff. If you decide to sell your gold jewelry to Cash4Gold, who has been running a lot of late-night TV and radio ads, read this article by Rob Cockerham of Cockeyed first:

Cash4Gold is nice enough to admit when they were trying to rip you off.

Since I saw the first commercial, I had a feeling that Cash4Gold might be a rip-off. They advertise during late-night cable television programming and on sports radio. This time slot is pretty crowded with what I call “red-flag” advertising. Another hint is that their DBA sounds more like a text message than an actual business name.
You are encouraged to send your “scrap” gold in a plastic bag, and to trust they will handle it securely and send a reasonable, near market-rate payment for the precious metal therein. They’ll take whatever gold items you have, so maybe it would be too complicated to offer actual prices posted on their website.

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From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by JKirchartz.

“Growing Jewelry is a redefinition of modern values. It is a clash of jewelry and gardening; couture and organism. The collection of this hand jewelry is designed for people in metropolitan cities and is an experiment in drawing nature toward man, as nature being the presupposition of life.”

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Looking for a slightly weird, very crafty and kinda cute present? Enroll someone you love in the Button Ring of the Month Club. Best of all, the rings are somewhat customized to your personal preferences. Only $55 for a 6 month membership full of accessories galore!

“Around the 1st of each month, for the next 6 consecutive months, you’ll receive a vintage button ring packaged inside an adorable little paper box–ready for gift giving or keeping for yourself!

Your likes & dislikes will be considered as I am crafting up your fabulous jewelry. If you have certain color combos you adore, let me know. Or, if you are daring & desire to be completely surprised, I can do that too!!”

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I just discovered Anabella Designs on Etsy. Gorgeous stuff – this is a hand-pierced, sterling silver pendant. It’s even cut and filed by hand. I haven’t bought the sterling silver ones, but I did buy a couple of the enamel on copper pendants for Christmas gifts and am really excited to see them in person. I’m even more impressed because when I think about trying to do this on my own, I envision some major puncture wounds and a trip to the emergency room.