These USB necklaces are the jewelry equivalent of those awful fiberboard TV cabinets beloved of lottery-winners everywhere. Instead of buying a piece of technology that looks good in the first place, the idea is to take something ugly and pretend it is a more old fashioned, conservatively acceptable object. In the case of the TV, the box that rises up from the foot of the bed is pretending to be an antique oak closet. In the case of the USB necklace, designed by Sempercura, these drives are straight out of the Franklin Mint School.
We’re all for wearing a USB drive around the neck, and there are some basic but good-looking models which you could even let hang outside your clothes. But Sempercura’s tat would look more at home on my mother’s mantlepiece next to the crystal butterflies than it does adorning the chest of any self-respecting geek.
The saddest part is that Sempercura actually takes the time to ensure that the drive part is reliable, with flash memory supplied by Alcro, and that the base case for the drives – a brushed, monolithic rectangle – is pretty smart looking before all the crushed-glass crap is applied. Go take a look at the gallery. There’s even Swarovski in there. As someone close to me said, “Ack! Gaaah!”
Product page [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets. Thanks, Julian!]
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