In between all those dress fittings, cake tastings, and makeup trials, I must have heard countless horror stories about women getting jilted at the altar or engagements gone bad to last me a lifetime. So when I saw these ‘Til Death Do Us Part Knuckle Dusters, well, you probably already know which group of women I thought about.

This tough-looking set of rings was designed by Kate Bauman and was intended to be just a one-of-a-kind statement piece back in 2006. However, the demand was huge and the interest was high, so she decided to offer these knuckle dusters for sale on her site for $425(USD).

The ’Til Death Do Us Part Knuckle Duster can be cast in your choice of sterling silver or brass, with a 1-carat cubic zirconia set in each of its four rings.

[via This is Why I'm Broke via Red Ferret]

It’s not a ring that was made to have people kill other people, literally. But it does look pretty, and not just pretty unusual, right?

If you take a closer look at the ring, you’ll notice that its (artificial) diamond has been positioned into the frame upside down. That means the pointy side is up and the flat side is facing downwards – making for one deadly looking piece of jewelry.

In a way, you could consider this ring to be sort of, well, an anti-ring. The perfect anti-ring for the anti-Valentine.

The Killer Ring is available from Generate. The sterling silver version sells for just $109 (USD), but you’ll have to add another $740 if you want it in 14K white or yellow gold.

Even his proposal was Indy themed. With no ring, he gave her a bag of sand. Doesn’t sound very romantic, but in the Indy context, it works. He presented her with a ring box and when she opened it, it was just a bag of sand! He said that Indy must have swooped in and stolen the treasure. Very slick way to buy some time.

So he designed a neat bullwhip ring and found a custom jeweler in Las Vegas to make the ring shown above. The yellow diamond represents “The Idol”. Hopefully the relationship works out and she doesn’t rip his heart out like Molar Ram does in Temple of Doom.

I’m interested to see what they do for the actual wedding now.

[via The Mary Sue via Geeksaresexy]

They are just $10(USD) plus shipping each. Outfit one hand in PS3 controllers and one hand in XBox controllers if you can’t decide. They would make cute little gifts for your geek friends this Christmas too if you don’t want one for yourself.

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They were designed by Ammnra Props, and they do a great job capturing the look of each of the personality cores. Even though the game’s cores are spheres, these still work nicely since they’re sort of like you just chopped the top and bottom off of the core so you can stick your finger into it. In addition to Wheatley, you can slip some of the lesser-known cores onto your fingers, including Space Core, Fact Core and Rick the Adventure Core. What, no Anger Cores?

The rings are produced using 3D printing technology over at Shapeways, and can be ordered up in a variety of materials. Keep in mind that while you can order them in stainless steel or silver, you won’t be able to get the colorful eyeball effect if you do that. Though I do think a shiny sterling silver Wheatley ring would look pretty awesome. If you buy one of the white or grey plastic versions, you’ll still need to paint in the details yourself. Here’s what the plastic rings look like once printed and painted:

The personality core rings can be ordered in ring sizes from 6 to 12, and prices range from $15 to $105 (USD) – depending on material – over at Ammnra’s Shapeways shop.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I think having one of those emergency distress buttons would be pretty cool. Not for your home or office or car (although it would be pretty cool to have a button at each of these locations), but for yourself. And that’s essentially what you’ll get with MyRingGuard.

Currently in the prototype stages, MyRingGuard is a ring that’s molded from silicone and plastic that, when triggered, sends off a signal to your smartphone via Bluetooth to fire off a pre-programmed text message to a set group of people, along with your exact location via GPS.

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MyRingGuard is up for funding at Indie Gogo with a target goal of $30,000. Assuming the project is funded, a $39 pledge will get you a MyRingGuard personal emergency button for yourself. Now there’s another way of putting a ring on it.

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As you’ll see in the video below, some of the rings have multiple parts, either detachable or movable, like the GLaDOS ring or the Assassin’s Creed ring with a hidden dagger print.

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Before you get too excited, know that Myles pulled off a Warhammer move here – the actual rings are unpainted, so how good (or bad) it ends up is still up to you.

You can order the rings at Myles’ Shapeways store. He either has a precise calculation for the value of his products or he pulled the numbers out of a hat because they all have odd prices, from $4.92 to $16.58 (USD).

[via Rampaged Reality via Gamefreaks]

The Ring Mouse slips onto your finger and your thumb controls the cursor movement by using the touch area above the mouse buttons. It has two buttons that you can click with your thumb. The adapter the mouse uses for connecting wirelessly to your computer is good for up to ten meters from the mouse. The sensitivity of the mouse is 1000 dpi, which is better than the 800 dpi of your average cheap optical mouse.

The wireless mouse and an internal rechargeable battery for wireless use and comes with a retracting USB cable so you can charge the mouse and use it while you charge. You can order yours from Brando right now for $55 (USD).

The rings were modeled after parts off the Leica 50mm Summilux lens. The groom’s ring was the focusing ring, and the bride’s was the aperture ring. The rings aren’t the only cool things the jewelry making friend whipped up though.

He also constructed a very realistic looking metal Leica camera that is used to hold the rings. The guy’s ring slips over the bottom of the faux lens, and the woman’s on the top. This is really cool and I bet the jewelry maker could sell these things if he was so inclined.

[tokyo camera style via Petapixel]

A designer named Paola Mirai takes those flexible circuit boards from inside of keyboard and other electronics like inkjet cartridges and turns them into jewelry. The flexible circuit boards are cut to size and then the shapes are put into some sort of resin that is clear called orotrasparente. Each of the pieces of jewelry are handmade.

The finished jewelry is really cool and I particularly like that wedding band looking ring. That would be perfect for a geek wedding. Pricing for the jewelry starts at 65 EUR (appx. $93 USD) for the rings and 145 EUR (appx. $208 USD) for bracelets. Would you wear a wedding band made from an old circuit board?

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Designed to look like Fisher’s iconic 3-sensor nightvision headgear, the ring is still just a concept design. But since the guys over at Gamer Jewlery actually tipped us off to the ring, I’m confident they have the jewerly-crafting skills to make it a reality. I’m not sure what materials it would be made of, but I can imagine that emeralds would be the most appropriate for the bright green dots.

While you probably won’t be particularly stealthy wearing something as showy as this, it’s not exactly like Fisher was inconspicuous with three alien-like protrusions from his forehead, either.

[via Video Game Jewelry Blog]

The image comes from a selection of miniature slides, although I think it would be really cool if they replaced the slides with an LCD screen, so you could project moving images.

While I think that it’s neat that you can use these to use these little ring projectors for wedding portraits, they should make a version with a Batman logo in it so you could use it to hail superheroes when in peril.

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Can’t read binary? Go here and convert the sets of digits before and after the heart.

A sweet, if awfully roundabout way to say you 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 someone. You can get the Computer Love Ring at Lyndsay Behrens’ (aka Idle Hands Designs) Etsy shop for $63 (USD).

It’s called the Kinekt Gear Ring, and it’s a perfect gift for any tinkerer or mechanically-inclined geek. In fact, anyone that likes to fidget with things will probably get highly addicted to spinning the embedded gears of this ring.

The Gear Ring is made from high quality matte stainless steel. It has a total of six micro-precise gears that will turn in unison when the outer rims are spun. While that all sounds good, perhaps it’s best left to be shown in action:

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It’s currently available from KinektDesign.com for $165 (USD).

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Each stone is set on a custom-made claw and can be screwed on and off the band, so even though the set is very pricey, you’re practically getting three unique rings in one. Your wives wife will freakin’ love you if you get them this.

Props to the product page writers for their playful but accurate take on how the ring will be used: “So now, she chooses which stone to wear – one for work and one for stares.  One for evenings and one for mournings [sic]. One for what ever she cares.”

Prospective buyers will be glad to know that the diamonds come from legitimate sources and are conflict-free. Unfortunately they’re really expensive. Contact Sruli Recht via e-mail with the subject “r¿ng enquiry” and be prepared to pay €3530 (approx. $5,060 USD) to order. And here I was thinking that the money saved from not having to polish and cut the diamonds would lower the cost of the thing.

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One bead, one bead, two beads, three… it’s almost like a song! But instead it’s an homage to the famous sequence of numbers introduced to Europe by Leonardo of Pisa. And it’s the kind of thing even your non-mathy friends can admire, without even knowing what it means.

These handmade rings are simpler than they seem and are available for only $12 from the holmescraft Etsy store. If you don’t like one set of beads, fear not–you can probably find another color that suits your fancy.

The question mark key is a silver-toned  adjustable ring with a black laptop computer key on a glass tile. The ring comes with a black gift box and a gift bag.

You can get the ring for a mere $16 (USD) at Etsy. You can also choose a different laptop key, and if a ring’s not your thing, capitolagirl also sells bracelets, earrings, hairpins and cufflinks. Want to get out of a relationship? Wear the Esc key ring and let your partner get the hint.

Each one of these chunky retro Cylon Centurion rings is made from a silver-toned metal, with an inset red glass scanner eye. Unfortunately, it doesn’t move back and forth. Too bad there’s not enough room to hack in one of these LED eyeballs.

Galactica fans, you can find the Cylon Centurion rings over on ThinkGeek for $39.99 to $49.99 (USD), depending on size.

…oh, and if she tells you “no”, just whip out your laser blaster and evaporate her.

See that? That’s gold. And rubies. This is serious fandom here. DeviantARTist Dans-Magic has made a number of these custom pieces, and in fact, this isn’t the only bit of Transformers bling he’s done. Check out this pendant set with sapphires:

It’s not just Transformers, though; Dans-Magic has a number of other items, including Predator jewelry (!!) and themes from outside of pop culture. Custom orders accepted, but remember that they come with a custom price.

[Dans-Magic via Geekologie]

Geeky jewelry is common, but it’s usually restricted to the realms of science fiction rather than actual science. The collection has all sorts of cellular-inspired items that you can hang about your person.

Petri dish-inspired earrings: better than wearing actual petri dishes on your ears. Trust me on this one.

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