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.”