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Biojewelry Bone Ring To Go With Your Jeweleye

Here's the perfect accessory for the Jeweleye eyeball jewelry you got last summer - the Biojewelry Bone Ring.


(From Biojewelry Bone Ring)

Here are the macabre details:

  • Material on which bone tissue may be cultured is provided.
  • A bone biopsy of you and your partner are performed, procuring the necessary tissue for culture
  • Bone tissue is grown in a lab environment
  • The finished bone is finished and mounted
  • You exchange rings and you are now man (and bone of wife) and wife (and bone of husband).
Of course, I couldn't help but think of the Atlotl/Gibiril Regimen from Frank Herbert's 1972 novel The Godmakers in which a whole person spent time in the tank regrowing bones.

I find myself wondering what could be next. Human bone-based scrimshaw perhaps? I'm sure the whales would appreciate it.


(Why can't humans grow their own bones for this?)

Be sure to use the obscure navigation aid in the lower left corner to poke through their site - their philosophy is deep - Biojewelry. AND, thanks to reg via josh!

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