Looking for a way to tell that adorable tech-chick down the hall that you fancy her, but don't want some cookie-cutter idea that will leave her pink hair dull and her blue nails clicking in annoyance? Leave it to two MIT grads to turn mathematics into ingenious, inventive and quite startling jewelry.

Their company, Nervous System, uses a complicated process of algorithms to grow -- yes, grow -- a line of ethereal jewelry that mimics and enhances geometric patterns found in nature. Using applets, Nervous System allows you to play with these algorithms and later purchase your own creations as earrings, necklaces, bracelets and brooches made in gold or stainless steel.

The process behind how it all works is only fully understood by the most elite programmers, but chopped down to the very basics... A very complex mathematical sequence is repeated in an environment with set rules, creating and generating a pattern of repeating and alternating forms. It is a random process but also a controlled one that, when left to replicate one its own, creates the intricate patterns found everywhere in the natural world.

The jewelry's simplicity is its greatest attribute, if only beucase it represents something so inantely complex. The prices are also reasonable for such completely unique pieces -- the Full Moon Series of dendritic patterns is $60 in stainless steel, and the Radiolaria necklace is $75 and the bracelet $55.

As I said, the perfect gift for your favorite geek-chic tech-chick. Now get a move on before someone steals your idea!

Labels: algorithms, geek-chic, geometric pattens, jewelry, mathematics

This entry was posted by Amber, on Wednesday, July 9, 2008. You can leave your response .