Cascading diode necklace and earrings

Nothing screams fashion like dangling diodes, ladies. Be the first on your block to wear your inner nerd on the outside with pride with this matching necklace and earring set made of 57 1-amp diodes. Or, give the gift of geek for the low, low price of only $320.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

Damn, that's hot.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

Wow, an EE's dream come true!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

Or make it yourself for about 1/8 the cost. Unless you shop a radio shack, then it will cost full price.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

Very pretty... but in no way affordable.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

If I bought this for my girlfriend she'd kick my ass

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

A fabulous ex of mine made exactly these designs years ago. Not sure if she is still doing it but a concern was the nasty chems used to manufacture electronic components, and the fact that they are not really meant to be placed against skin (sweat is very corrosive).

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

Salesdrones from Swarovski to DeBeers are shaking in their boots at the sight of this.

The shaking is being caused by laughter, of course, but still...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

I can't see this as being in any way different from the jewelry I constructed as a kid back in the mid 70's, when my dad worked as a circuit board inspector and always had handfuls of random components lying around.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

It looks like you could actually just make that yourself. They didn't do anything more then bend the ends of the wires. Save yourself $300 and make that crappy gift yourself.

Or just buy her Pizza, I'm certain she'll be just as impressed...

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

this is so beautiful! they even have dorky comments: "Keep those frequencies under control with this necklace made from medium-inductance toroids."

now all you need are panties made from tin foil and you'll really be freeqy!!

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

If you buy them 5000 at a time, DigiKey has 1n4001 diodes for 1.7 cents each. That's $85 for 5000 diodes. DigiKey part number 1N4001MSTR-ND. That's enough diodes to make 87 of these at a materials cost of less than $1.00 each.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

Cool.

Make mine light-emitting please. :D

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 19th 2005 1:23AM]

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