The online world is a place where you find a lot of weird things, and fashion jewelry is no exception to this. That’s why we round up 7 of the most eccentric jewelry pieces we found in the internet.

1. Looped Leather Accessories

These Amaa Gyan 'Mold-Me' rings and necklaces use looped designs to add texture and dimension to each piece. As oppose to using more neutral, tired leather colors like black or brown, designer Amaa Gyan chose to incorporate reds, blues, purples and greens into her pieces. 

2. Underwear-Inspired Jewelry

Thanks to Vladimir Markin's underwear-inspired jewels collection, it is now acceptable to wear your bra or panties on your head -- well, kind of. The Russian designer's collection includes precious and sexy undergarments like bras, culottes, camisoles, bodices, stockings or red thongs transformed into necklaces and earrings, giving a new meaning to haute lingerie! 

3. Fluorescent Fake Nail Necklaces

These kooky necklaces and earrings are made from fake-nail-inspired pieces. The collection contains a wide range of looks, from fluorescent nails to sterling silver or other metallic pieces. 

4. Tasty Fast Food Jewelry

The Mary Rebecca Hamburger Ring costs about the same price as a meal at a fast food restaurant, but unlike a greasy helping of fries and a burger, the ring won't be gone in five minutes with the potential of causing a heart attack in the near future. 

5. Smitten Smooching Jewelry

Jewelry designer Chloë McCormick is definitely a creative individual. This featured Kiss Ring is one that will leave many awing at the wearer's hand due to the situation it depicts. Showing two faces, with one that is kissing the other on the cheek, this Kiss Ring is available in nylon or wax.

6. Cash Jewelry

The Sophie Kemp currency rings were designed in response to an interactive design seminar she attended in which she was asked to redesign the parameters of a common interaction. Kemp chose the everyday universal interaction of giving and receiving money. Kemp used 12 different currencies from around the world and turned them each into rings using traditional origami methods. 

7. Math-Inspired Jewelry

The Geometric Pop Earrings are the perfect gift for any artistic individual looking to express her originality. It combines different triangles in a unique and asymmetrical manner to produce jewelry that functions as art. The funky and creative earrings are made even more original by the fact that every pair has two slightly different shaped earrings.

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Who would have thought that diamonds can be more than just “a girl’s bestfriend” or an expensive gem embedded in a fashionable jewelry. A new study has found that the gems used not only for jewelry but also for cutting, polishing, as superconductors, and more, can also be used to detect cancer tumors.

Lead study author Professor David Reilly from the University Of Sydney School Of Physics looked at how nano-scale diamonds might help detect the earliest stages of cancers. He says, “We knew nano-diamonds were of interest for delivering drugs during chemotherapy because they are largely non-toxic and non-reactive.”
   
 “We thought we could build on these non-toxic properties realizing that diamonds have magnetic characteristics enabling them to act as beacons in MRIs. We effectively turned a pharmaceutical problem into a physics problem,” he continued. “Having those chemicals target certain types of cancers, bind to certain types of receptors, is something that’s advanced. What we’ve done is now develop that lighthouse to image those things in an MRI, thereby actually see the cancers light up, without having to open somebody up.”

To make explain things simpler, the synthetic versions of diamonds can be used to detect cancer in the earliest stages through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For this to be possible, the researchers' involved hyperpolarizing nano-diamonds. This aligns atoms inside a diamond, which produces a signal that can be detected by an MRI scanner. The hyperpolarized diamonds are attacted to chemicals that target cancer making it possible to track the movement of the diamonds as they move through the patient's body.

Furthermore, lead study author Ewa Rej notes that the team focused on hyperpolarising nano-diamonds. This is a process of aligning atoms inside the precious gem in order that they create a signal that can be detectable by an MRI scanner. “By attaching hyperpolarised diamonds to molecules targeting cancers the technique can allow tracking of the molecules’ movement in the body.”

Finally, Professor Reilly concludes, “This is a great example of how quantum physics research tackles real-world problems, in this case opening the way for us to image and target cancers long before they become life-threatening.”

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L’Incomparable Diamond Necklace, $55 million 

The L’Incomparable Diamond Necklace has the World Record as the most valuable necklace in the world. This diamond piece, weighs 637 carats, with the world’s largest internally flawless diamond as its centre-piece. The Incomparable diamond is yellow in shade, and weighs 407.48 carats, discovered over 30 years ago by a young girl, when it was a massive 890 carat by-product of a diamond mining, and took the Mouawad Jewelry over four years to polish it and craft it into a necklace of $55 million with 91 diamonds of various cuts, including 229.52 carat white diamonds, set in 18 carat rose gold.

The Graff Pink, $46.2 million

Little is known about the origins of this very rare 24.78-carat pink diamond. This was purchased by a private collector from famous American jeweler Harry Winston and then sold at auction to another famous diamond collector and jeweler Laurence Graff. The price for which it was sold was the highest ever spent on a piece of jewelry. It is dubbed to be the greatest diamond ever discovered with a classification of Diamond type.

The Perfect Pink Ring, $23.2 million

The Perfect Pink ring to be one of the most expensive fashionable jewelry pieces in the world priced at $23.2 million. It has a 14.23 carat intense pink diamond, which is rare, due to the singular tinge, and perfect color, cut and clarity, as well as the fact that less than 10% of pink diamonds are of over 0.20 carats. To make it even more perfect, the three diamonds are mounted on an 18-karat rose and white gold ring.

Heart of the Ocean Diamond, $20 million

 

This necklace is arguably one of the most recognizable pieces of expensive jewelry as it is the exact imitation of the necklace used in the movie Titanic. The Heart of the Ocean Diamond necklace was created by jeweler Harry Winston and features a 15-carat blue diamond.riced at $20 million; the necklace is one of the most expensive pieces of jewellery worn to the Oscars, and among the world’s costliest necklaces. Even its imitations sell for $3.5 million at auctions, due to its history of love.

Bulgari Blue Diamond Ring, $15.7 million

 

This Bulgari two-stone ring is unique for many reasons, thus commanding a very high price. First, it features a triangular-cut vivid blue diamond that weighs 10.95 carats; second, its other stone is another triangular shaped diamond that weighs 9.87 carats; third, it is a Bulgari original made in 1972. This fine piece of jewelry comes with a true report from the Gemological Institute of America, which verifies the diamonds’ weight, clarity, color, and flawlessness.

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