Dune Futuristic Rings
There are some cooooool cats over at Substance Jewelry making these Dune Futuristic Rings - and really all the rings available in the designers' Etsy shop. Each of the Dune Ring listings kicks off with a quote from Frank Herbert: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." And, yeah, admittedly, that's kind of a downer. But it does set the mood for the intricate, otherworldly geometric pieces you're seeing, and leads us into Substance's inspiration for the collection.
The abstract, futuristic shapes of the Dune rings are all intended to house a "hidden energy core" unique to Substance in both design and execution. Expressed as honeycombed interiors, the idea conjures alternate universes and faraway planets, perhaps dystopian or post apocalyptic ones, where people hold supernatural abilities, or their very life force, in a ring that never leaves their finger.
Fittingly, Substance uses a special technology to create their Dune Rings of the future. The jewelry is hollow, but crafted with stiffening ribs hidden inside. This gives them their swell honeycomb aesthetic, and makes the rings lightweight and comfortable to wear.
McWhinney Active Wedding Rings
Jeff McWhinney designs wedding rings for men who move. Like a little more than from their desk to the john, the car to the house, and the couch to the fridge. Hikers, golfers, climbers, weight lifters, even really intense...
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The Ring Clock
August 2013 Update: Thanks to crowdfunding campaigns, concept products are making their segues into reality much quicker these days. Two years ago, the Ring Clock emerged from a Moving Innovation challenge set forth by...
Moonglow Rings
Moonglow Rings take minimalistic colored and metal bands on a trip through classic sci-fi adventures when the lights go out. Though Black Badger Advanced Composites' glow-in-the-dark finger decor comes from Sweden, not...
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TheTouch Real-Time Heartbeat Rings
Want to feel close to a loved one far away? Or in the next room when it's too much work to get up off the couch? As part of their mission to "make the most personal connecting tools," TheTouch is finishing up development...
Meteorite & Dinosaur Bone Rings
If your special someone is really that special, you won't just give them a ring, you'll give them a ring from a bazillion years ago! A ring that symbolizes how grand, vast, and enduring your love is. A ring that proves...
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NFC Programmable Smart Ring
At this point you could put a different type of smart ring on every one of your fingers if you wanted. The NFC Ring is a programmable piece of smart jewelry you can wave around powerful wizard- or dismissive CEO-style...
Femme Fatale Ring Gun
Ladies with a vendetta, or a penchant for jewelry that also serves as a weapon, I'm afraid you can't buy the Femme Fatale Ring Gun. (Unless the person who paid $11,350 for it at auction would be willing to sell it to...
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QALO Wedding Rings for Athletes
QALO, you win. Best line I've read all month: "After getting married we realized what a nuisance wearing our traditional wedding band was." I know, right? Suddenly women at after-work happy hour are turning down your...
Fidget Rings
Maybe you fidget because you're anxious. Because you're bored. Because you have ADHD. Because you're 5 minutes away from walking into the biggest interview of your life. Because you just drank 11 cups of coffee. Now fidgeters...
Kinekt Moving Gear Ring
Kinekt's Gear Ring reminds me of that ditty "The Wheels on the Bus" except, unlike the song, the ring has a fully integrated design of micro-precision, stainless steel gears instead of rubber tires that go round and round...
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Secret Wood Rings
Straight from a dream / snow globe / LOTR set to your finger. Secret Woods carves wearable enchantments, a line of rings topped with abstract and magical scenes of nature that look like visions inside rough-cut crystal...
Shomer-Tec Titanium Escape Ring
Shomer-Tec's Titanium Escape Ring won't just serve as a symbol of your love for and commitment to your wife, it will also get you out of the handcuffs that chick from the hotel bar leaves you in after she Roofies you...