Cat 5 wedding rings help nerds couple

There you have it, the single most profound expression of your love and superiority over token ring in a $175 package. Presumably, these Ethernet rings come in both straight-through and cross-over pin-outs for traditional and same-sex nerding.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 4:52PM]

Let not impracticality stand in the way of geekery.

[ACER Posted Apr 22nd 2008 8:00AM]

Heh, the female connector is the male ring, and the male connector is the female ring.

[kobachi Posted Apr 23rd 2008 12:39AM]

Uh, what? The page clearly states that the male connector is the male ring.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 8:02AM]

'Til ethernet do us part!

[froggio Posted Apr 22nd 2008 11:20AM]

Is there a CAT 6 version? I like faster transfer speed...

[Esat Dedezade Posted Apr 22nd 2008 8:21AM]

Quickness is not always a good thing....

[froggio Posted Apr 22nd 2008 9:23AM]

Damn it, I knew I should have paid attention in Sex Ed.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 9:28AM]

and when the clip breaks you'll have to re-do the cable...

[KAL326 Posted Apr 22nd 2008 9:48AM]

I can see it now, "Honey its not what it looks like. I tripped an fell and the next thing I new I was stuck in this other wall jack."

[Interpol Posted Apr 22nd 2008 10:19AM]

So...married lesbians would both wear the female socket rings, and vice versa with married gay men?

Soon you'll be finding RJ45 sockets in the bathroom stalls at the airport...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 10:22AM]

"Presumably, these Ethernet rings come in both straight-through and cross-over pin-outs for traditional and same-sex nerding."

uh...no. the man gets the plug and the girl gets the jack. duh. :-p

there's a restaurant in uptown that does not have "men" and "women" sign on the restroom doors- instead they merely have a picture of a car on the mens and a picture of a garage on the womens. :) this reminds me of that.

[Mr Death Posted Apr 22nd 2008 10:29AM]

I'm sorry guys, but if I had bought my Wife these rings for our wedding she may very well have buried me (and the rings) in the back yard.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 11:30AM]

Wonder twin powers, activate!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 11:38AM]

"the single most profound expression of your love and superiority over token ring"
You can run token ring over Cat5, too, ya know. I'm just sayin...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 5:18PM]

You might call the couple that wears this a "twisted pair"!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 12:36PM]

Same sex nerding? ohh fuck yea!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 12:48PM]

So then, the priest acts as a DHCP server?

[fourblades Posted Apr 22nd 2008 1:17PM]

Hey, sorry but what about the same-sex thing that they posted with the news?

I seriously need some coffee right now

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 1:19PM]

Too busy and not interested enough in looking it up, but shouldn't these really be called RJ-45 rings? That's the connector name, correct?
There's no place to punchdown the cable, whether it be Cat5, Cat5e, or Cat6

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 1:32PM]

Forged in the depths of the mainframe....

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 2:20PM]

Wonder twin powers...Activate!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 2:24PM]

/facepalm

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 2:57PM]

These are stupid.

[Student Driver Posted Apr 22nd 2008 3:43PM]

Great, a new connectivity standard: "Ethernerd"

I guess this is CAT69?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 4:09PM]

Why not WiFi? Its more convenient than Ethernet cables.

[talz13 Posted Apr 23rd 2008 8:54AM]

Just don't let her catch you turning promiscuous mode on...

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 7:55PM]

one thing...
nerds don't get to couples.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 12:14AM]

In case you weren't aware, there was Token Ring that ran on RJ-45 connectors. It wasn't wide spread, but it did exist.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 10:31PM]

I think it is clever and cute. My boyfriend is a gamer/geek...I think it's funny now that we've been together for almost 3 years and known each other for 4 years! If this were a year into our relationship then I might have to think about 'why' after first thinking about 'what the heck?!'... I've come to appreciate all the stuff I still don't understand... =o)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 22nd 2008 11:34PM]

This comments list is hysterical. I didn't even have to know the jargon and I was laughing out loud. Touche, nerds ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 12:46AM]

Could there be anything more pointless or amateurly made? Maybe, maybe not. I take it no pointless Apple news could be found today and this had to take its place.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 1:10AM]

it's a pile of fail. cool idea, but no one, and i mean no one is going to wear something like that unless it's made to look a little nicer. maybe a smaller scale version cast in a decent metal or something a bit more sophisticated like a miniature fiber optic cable?

A neat novelty, but nothing more. I'd be looking for more active technology for me and my nerdette, like RFID readable inscriptions, bluetooth pairing between our rings so they can do a warm glow when we're in proximity...

c'mon, use your imagination

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 10:36AM]

Too bad there's no way to effectively put a shroud over the tension spring/lock. Nothing worse than perpetual slip-out.

Someone needs to make an IBM TR herm. connector series for aging geeks.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 23rd 2008 11:28PM]

When you link them its like there having sex, ewwwwww, electronic sex, like my internet girlfriend.