Re:Iron Ring
by claudius on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:07PM
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Wouldn’t a rubber ring be more suitable for a software engineer? It also wouldn’t break that easily :)
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I can see it now: two rings, one rubber to represent user requirements, and the other silicon to represent the systems we have to implement those requirements in.
Re:Iron Ring
by fghh45sdfhr3 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @12:14PM
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Glass ring encased in rubber, with a label claiming it is exactly as flexible and stretchable as a 100% rubber ring would be.
I am getting somewhat jealous now – people should make wearable cyclic particle accelerators or something like that for those hacking nature rather than mere computers :-)
Diamond made out of isotopically pure carbon-14. Ring laser gyroscope. Negative-refractive-index metamaterial. A single giant LED. Nanolithography to produce structural coloration.
I've wanted a cool physics ring for quite a while.