That title may sound like some sort of slick marketing thing,
but here's the back story. The gold discs in the earrings are
actually experimental photo diodes that were developed for use
in Cat Scan machines. The original cost of developing the diodes
was over $30 Million dollars. Approximately 300 diodes were produced.
When it became clear that they would never perform to expectation
the project was terminated. These are two of the original 300
at a cost of $100,000. each plus .12¢ for the acrylic. Don't you just
love the transitory value of things.
