A Lasting Token of Undying Something

Biojewelry
This company wants to make engagement rings for couples... using each other's bone tissue.

Yes, that IS just as bizarre as it sounds on first reading. They want to take bone tissue from each of the two people, and place it on a pair of scaffolds, called "bioglass". The scaffolds are ceramic, but porous. Like, um, I don't know. Candy that you've sucked on a while, and it's got lots of holes in it. (I got nothin'.)

So they put the tissue on this round scaffold, and the bone tissue grows in the form of a ring, which your partner wears. They're just doing this with one couple so far, and they're looking for the couple they want to use.

Doctors have developed ways to grow bone tissue in the lab, to transplant into patients. Now these folks are using the same technology... but for EVIL! EVIL purposes! They're basically a bunch of shmucky art people who want to stir up "discussion."

I'm not really sure I get it. Maybe if I had taken the "Interaction Design" course at the Royal College of Art in London, I would be on the same page.

This is just way too much like the little vials of eachother's blood that Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob wore around their necks. Let's just keep our body tissue inside our bodies, hey? Let's not parade it around in vials and make it grow in funny shapes and stuff. People, we do NOT WANT to someday see people taking this the next step, and growing new THINGS to add on to their bodies! You know they'll do it! Let's head them off!

We should all just get his and her kitties, like my friend Justin and his girlfriend. Kitties are so great... More people should have kitties anyway.