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Jewelry That’s Made Only of Light Beamed Onto Your Skin | WIRED.com

“… Neclumi, an app that pairs with a picoprojector, attached to a shirt collar, to shine little light tattoos on the wearer’s neck, like a glow-in-the-dark choker necklace.”

Neclumi is a necklace that you can’t touch, or buy, or get insured. Rather, it’s a pattern of tiny light projections that beam onto the wearer’s neck, and according to Neclumi’s inventor, its presence on a jewelry blog sparked some backlash. It’s not silver or gold, reasoned the commenters, so it’s not jewelry. […]

“We have less and less of our own things,” says Jakub Kozniewski, one of four artists that make up panGenerator. “We don’t have books, we have data that lives in the cloud. We don’t have CD cases for music, it’s all streamed through Spotify. With the same logic you could stream jewelry, or treat it like software … 
“I think the necklace is poetic, there’s something romantic there—a bigger trend apart from the jewelry.”

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In the years when I taught an undergraduate art history survey course, I would invariably encounter a student who wanted to know how ancient builders could have produced structures of such precision as the Giza pyramids without the aid of laser devices. On occasion the question would be accompanied by citations from writers suggesting extraterrestrial intervention in the ancient world as a possible explanation. Such technological chauvinism is one of the better indicators of our enduring human nature. Due to our active and potent imaginations, we come to believe our digital devices are as basic to our existence as water and air.

An Overly Optimistic Take on Our Post-Human Existence

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