The Jewellery that turns Blood Flow into Electricity
If you think squeezing your feet into an uncomfortable pair of heels is painful, then Israeli jewellery designer, Naomi Kizhner’s hardcore jewellery is probably not for you. Her innovative pieces are meant to be inserted into the wearer’s veins, harnessing kinetic power from the body’s involuntary movements to produce electricity.
The collection, named ‘Energy Addicts’, according to Dezeen, features invasive pieces of gold jewellery that have golden spikes at each end, which are inserted into the wearer’s veins in two places. The continuous flow of blood turns the golden wheel inside the design, eventually creating sufficient kinetic energy to produce electricity that is sufficient to light up an LED and soon maybe even charge mobile devices.
Naomi created the pieces as a part of her graduation project at Jerusalem’s Hadassah College. Although it isn’t too likely that people will start wearing such jewellery soon, Naomi believes that “technologically we are not too far away from these ideas becoming a reality.”
“I hope that the project will make people think about the possibility that this could be their future,
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