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Binary Wedding Bands - Geeks Need A Ring Too
This company puts out a "Binary wedding band" that looks like this:
Binary wedding band by www.greenkarat.com
Here are the details in their own words:
"Our computers, like our love, are built upon very simple foundations. In the case of computers, that foundation is binary code.
These sophisticated, yet simple rings bear your personalized message in that computer code.
Binary code is a way of representing numbers using a pair of symbols (such as 1 and 0) in a string. The placement of the symbol in the string determines its value, just like the decimal place of the digits in our normal counting numbers determines their values.
In binary notation:
1 is one
10 is two
11 is three
100 is four, etc.
With 5 digits you can count from 0 to 31, enough to represent all 26 letters of the alphabet with 1=A, 2=B and so on.
On the Binary rings, there are 5 parallel tracks running around the ring, each track representing a digit in the binary lexicon. The track is engraved for 1 and left blank for 0. In this way, the five lines of engraving which progress around the ring spell out, in combination, your personalized message. Whew! Got it?
The message on the ring above reads “A Marriage of Values”. Your message may contain up to 20 characters. Cast in either recycled gold or recycled platinum.
Our Binary rings are designed and hand carved by artist Gideon Weisz. These are custom rings. As such, they are not eligible for the usual return and exchange privileges."
Most of our wedding rings at Excel Diamonds are a little more traditional and don't have binary code...yet!
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Comments
Now, that is something I would wear.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz on February 23, 2007 12:50 PM
That is cool, I would wear it too. Smart idea.
Posted by: Ben Pfeiffer on February 27, 2007 2:15 PM
Brilliant! I would wear one of these too!
011011100110010101101111
(that's neo in binary)
Posted by: NeO on February 27, 2007 3:57 PM
No, it's (nearly) MYRVO in this form. neo is 011100010101111
Posted by: Dave on February 27, 2007 6:53 PM
Beautiful, I'd rather have one of those then a gold/diamond number.
Posted by: Joost on February 27, 2007 7:12 PM
$950.00 for yellow/white gold? Add another $800 for platinum? These people are nuts. The ring should cost about $100.00, tops.
Posted by: Jake Jeffries on February 27, 2007 7:14 PM
The price is a bit out of the range =) of course no doubts, the idea is cool
Posted by: Dictionary on February 27, 2007 7:31 PM
Great idea.. I liked it.
Posted by: Can Erten on February 27, 2007 7:48 PM
Rememember that in the end this is all about marketing and all you are really talking about is a demonstation of apparent wealth with rocks taken from the ground.
Posted by: Glendale Winnipeg on February 27, 2007 7:48 PM
I've been to Green Karat before and always thought the jewelry was a little ugly and weird looking. But this is a great idea. Simple, meaningful, elegant. I like it. And I don't think it's overpriced, either. Maybe I'll get one. If I do, it'll be my third wedding ring. For one marriage, mind you. I just like meaningful jewelry :)
Posted by: Elaine Vigneault on February 27, 2007 8:45 PM
We're doing this for our wedding that's coming up. We're going to have a custom band done here with J+S in binary (24 chars will just make it). 10010101... It's very geeky and not as abstract as the design above.
Posted by: JG on February 27, 2007 8:58 PM
Actually Dave, 011100010101111 is q^
Posted by: Not Dave on February 27, 2007 10:42 PM
010001000110000101110110011001010011110101001110010011110100111101000010
Posted by: Elite1 on February 27, 2007 10:47 PM
Yeah, that's an awesome concept, but the price is ridiculous.
Posted by: egon on February 27, 2007 10:52 PM
i heart binary. thumbs up!
Posted by: etn on February 27, 2007 11:43 PM
010010111010102010101
Posted by: Anonymous on February 28, 2007 12:56 AM
Just wait for a $20 version from thinkgeek ;)
Posted by: Anonymous on February 28, 2007 7:48 AM
heck, if she makes me wear one:
01100001 01110011 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01100110 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101111 01110111 01100101 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101100 01101001 01100110 01100101 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01100010 01101010 00100111 01110011
Posted by: Anonymous on February 28, 2007 10:29 AM
0101100101101111011101010010000001100111011101010111100101110011001000000111001001100101011000010110110001101100011110010010000001101110011001010110010101100100001000000111010001101111001000000110011101100101011101000010000001100001001000000110110001101001011001100110010100101110
Posted by: Mike on February 28, 2007 4:08 PM
1100101111101010110010101110011001100001100100010100110000010011100111110010011100101001010101110011
Posted by: dp on February 28, 2007 6:23 PM
I love it, the idea is great but what I loved most was the way the comments quickly devolved into binary geek speak!! LOL!!
Posted by: Outdoors geek on March 1, 2007 8:27 PM
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Posted by: DJ on March 2, 2007 6:04 AM
Love it! My SO and I are looking at making something similar ourselves :)
Posted by: StephTheGeek on March 2, 2007 3:19 PM
01101000011101000111010001110000001110100010111100101111011011100110100101100011011010110110001101101001011100110110101101100101001011100110001101101111011011010010111101110100011011110110111101101100011100110010111101100010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100101110011100000110100001110000
Posted by: FRED FREAKAWAT on March 6, 2007 11:11 AM
lol, why post a page to translate binary.. if you are too noob to get then why bother trying!?!
I liked the idéa of binary messages on the weddingrings, but I didn't like the desing!
Posted by: Kristine on March 9, 2007 6:37 PM
For what it's worth, you guys are... er... were posting ASCII binary (which is eight digits). The ring in question only has five digits, so ASCII doesn't really work. Of course, I'm sure the more intelligent reader of blog comments already figured that out. ;)
Posted by: Noble on October 3, 2007 9:36 AM
Love it, if mine ever needs replacing, I'm getting one.
Posted by: Dawn on March 3, 2008 2:31 PM
0101011101101000011011110110010101110
1100110010101110010001000000110000101
1000110111010001110101011000010110110
0011011000111100100100000011101000111
00100110000101101110011100110110110001
1000010111010001100101011100110010000
0011101000110100001101001011100110010
000001101110011001010110010101100100
0111001100100000011101000110111100100
00001110011011001010111001001101001011
01111011101010111001101101100011110010
01000000110011101101111001000000110000
10110111001100100001000000110011101100
10101110100001000000110000100100000011
00110011101010110001101101011011010010
11011100110011100100000011011000110100
10110011001100101001011100010000001001
00100100111011011010010000001101101011
00101011000010110111000100000011100110
11001010111001001101001011011110111010
10111001101101100011110010010110000100
00001000010011010010110111001100001011
10010011110010010000001000011011011110
11001000110010100111111001000000101011
10110100001101111001000000111010001101
00001100101001000000110011001110101011
00011011010110010000001100111011010010
11101100110010101110011001000000110000
10010000001100110011101010110001101101
01101101001011011100010000001110011011
01000011010010111010000100000011000010
11000100110111101110101011101000010000
00100001001101001011011100110000101110
01001111001001000000100001101101111011
00100011001010011111100100000010010010
11101000010011101110011001000000110000
10010000001100110011101010110001101101
01101101001011011100110011100100000011
00011011011110110110101110000011101010
11101000110010101110010001000000110110
00110000101101110011001110111010101100
00101100111011001010111001100101110001
01110001011100010000001001100011001010
11000010111011001100101001000000110100
10111010000100000011000100110010100100
00001100001011100110111001100100000011
00110011101010110001101101011011100110
01011100010000001001111011010000010000
00110000101101110011001000010000001110
10001101000011010010111001100100000011
10011011010010111010001100101001000000
11010010111001100100000011001100111010
10110001101101011011010010110111001100
11100100000010100100100010101000100010
01001010000110101010101001100010011110
10101010101001100101110001011100010000
00101001101100101011100100110100101101
11101110101011100110110110001111001001
00000011110010110111101110101011100100
01000000110000101101100011011000010000
00110011001110101011000110110101101101
00101101110011001110010000001100111011
00101011001010110101101110011001000000
11000010110111001100100001000000110100
10110011000100000011110010110111101110
10100100000011000100111010101111001001
00000011101000110100001100001011101000
01000000111001001101001011011100110011
10010000001001001001001110110110100100
00001100111011011110110100101101110011
00111001000000111010001101111001000000
11010000111010101101110011101000010000
00111100101101111011101010010000001100
10001101111011101110110111000100000011
00001011011100110010000100000011000110
11010000110111101110000001000000111100
10110111101110101001000000110100101101
11001110100011011110010000001100001011
01100011011110111010000100000011011110
11001100010000001100110011101010110001
10110101101101001011011100110011100100
00001110000011010010110010101100011011
00101011100110010111000100000010010110
11101000110100001100001011011100110101
10111001100101100001000000100001001111
0010110010100101110
It's a mouthful, But just highlight, copy, and then paste into a Binary Code translator.
Do it. :D
Posted by: Wtf? on April 21, 2008 2:55 PM
These are kool. But we bought some very beautiful rings made by Todd Reed of 18K recycled gold and raw diamonds. He buys his diamonds directly from the mine in Australia and can ensure they are ethically mined. We purchased from a gallery in La called Altered Space. The people know their stuff and there were no hassles. Their website is http://www.AlteredSpaceGallery.com. I told them I would plug them and here it is! check them out! Thanks, Joe C., NYC
Posted by: joecarolo on July 14, 2008 3:15 PM