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Your relatives can be forever too!
Not only can you treasure your loved ones memories, but they can also serve as a beautiful piece of jewelry. Diamonds can be formed from any carbon-based organism as long as the correct conditions are met. These conditions include extremely high pressure along with cool temperatures. As humans are also carbon-based life forms, our remains can potentially be used to create synthetic diamonds. Currently, LifeGem (based in Illinois) is the only company in the US that creates a diamond out of your loved ones remains. Although the cremated ashes are the most common remains, LifeGem also accepts hair to create these diamonds. Many of these diamonds are created as memorials to loved ones that have passed or to show the strong bond between you and your partner in the form of an engagement ring. Although the process of creating synthetic diamonds is not new and was introduced by General Electrics in the 1950s, however the process has improved since that time. LifeGem are virtually identical to real diamonds and are certified by trained gemologists. The carats range from 0.25-1.3 and the price increases as the carat size increases (naturally). Two other companies – Phoenix Labs in Britain and Algordanza in Switzerland – have created memorial diamonds. Although the diamonds are generally sold loose, many customers have mounted them on rings, pendants, and even earrings. LifeGem is the only company of the three that offers diamonds made from your pet remains.
Diamonds, the new processor
Diamonds are the hardest known natural material on earth (although recently a group of people in Wisconsin create a harder material from mineral barium titanate and molten tin) something almost everyone knows. What most people don’t realize is that diamonds will be the main driving force in the advancement of technology. Several researchers have found ways to utilize diamonds within computers and processors to create quantum registers. One group of scientists recently found spinning nuclei, which would encode quantum bits. These spins are known for their stability although the only known way to manipulate these nuclei is to focus a laser light on the nitrogen vacancy center where a nitrogen atom is paired with a vacancy in the diamond lattice. This allows for photons to scatter efficiently and allows for each nitrogen vacancy (NV) to be easily viewed by microscope. The combination of NV and the spinning nuclei have allowed the physicists to retrieve and store data. Although this research is just starting, there are many people that realize the importance of diamonds in the technology world, such as Bryant Linares, owner of Apollo Diamonds. He had stated that diamonds would lead to a technological revolution much like steel did for the industrial revolution. And with the lab-creation process of diamonds improving exponentially it won’t be too long before all of us are using Intel diamond processors.Â