If, like me, you’ve been wondering when all the incredible advances made in the medical world over the past few years will start to spill over into more frivolous areas … Biojewelry is going to make you very happy.

Okay, so they’ve got a few problems with their spelling (or maybe they’re just trying to aim for an American audience, I don’t know) – but the concept is beautiful. Take the technology behind reconstructive bone surgery (growing cultured bone tissue over moulded mesh structures at will), and apply it to product design. If we can now grow human bone in any shape we want, then we have a whole new (and kinda natural) material for making stuff out of. How much nicer would bone feel in the hand than plastic? Biojewelry take the idea one conceptual step further, by offering to take bone marrow samples from both members of a couple, then grow their bone tissue into two eternity rings enabling them to wear each other in a whole new way.

For me, that’s a nice touch, but somewhat hokey. I love the basic idea of being able to create forms from real bone though. There’s more to come from that end of it, I’m sure …

Turns out that the project was a student proposal from two RCA students, which was so well received that they now have funding to go ahead and create prototypes. The website is a call for volunteer couples.