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Friendship or partner rings which have
been engineered to contain a tiny
tunnel that encircles the band. This
tunnel
has an entry hole on the inner surface
that
rests against the finger.
To “activate” the ring, a short segment of
hair donated from either themselves or
their partner,
is inserted into the hole.
The
hair strand is pushed in until it
disappears
totally inside the ring, from where it
cannot be removed without a destructive
process. A small transparent window on
the inside allows it to be viewed under
magnification.
Essence of Lincoln
http://www.beaufort...museum/mourning.htm
"Abraham Lincoln had 250 memorial rings made with locks of his hair to distribute after his death to his friends." After the Ford Theater incident these might have been deemed rather grisly mementos. [jurist, Oct 24 2006]
Ashes to Diamond
http://www.lifegem.com/
Possibly the most your dead-beat relative was ever worth! [MikeD, Jan 27 2009]
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Most rings worn daily are subjected to lots of dirt, moisture and general abuse. What keeps your "tiny tunnel" free from moisture and presumable decay of the contents? Wouldn't hermetic sealing and guaranteed incorruptibility of any DNA properties inherent in the hair strands be important to the wearers of such rings? |
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Yes, a bun from me also. Might I subsitute the hair with blood and then seal it? |
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You could put some of the ashes of a passed loved one in the ring. |
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That's a neat one, and loads less creepy than those braided hair chain thingy's. We found one in my grandma's possesions and even though it was really well preserved, it still felt icky to touch it (The idea, not the actuality). |
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Why just hair? Why not blood? Or stem cells? |
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Assuming a gold ring, just make a small recessed spot of 24k
gold that includes the port. Once the hair is in place the
user could manually push that gold inward to seal it. (High
purity annealed gold will deform under a fingernail). |
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[Chefboyrbored], here is a classy variation to that theme ... {link} |
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[+], love the idea [xenzag]. I have a few .308 casings discharged in combat and a few chunks of copper from discharged enemy EFPs that I pryed out of the hull of our truck. I plan to melt it all down and fashion a ring out of this material. |
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