Another promising device is the Story Bead. While it isn’t intended for mass production and sale, it is indeed real and happens to be the fruit of some research at MIT. Story Beads are aimed at preteen girls. The idea behind it is to bring technology closer to females while bringing together two activities girls commonly take part in – making bead necklaces and making stories. The way it works is simple: you connect a bead to a P

Lastly, possibly the largest breakthrough (which, to say the least, is driving DeBeers mad) is the synthetic diamond. One company called Gemesis has a machine that copies the conditions in which diamonds are formed. By applying immense heat and pressure to a small piece of graphite suspended in metal solvents, the graphite breaks down and reforms into a diamond, the largest of which are 3 carats. A second company, called Apollo Diamond, excels where Gemesis falls short. Apollo uses a technique called chemical vapor deposition (CVD), in which carbon is turned into plasma then precipitated as diamond. Gemesis diamonds grow in a metal solvent, and tiny particles of those metals get caught in the diamond lattice as it grows. CVD-made diamonds are nearly 100 percent pure and therefore are indistinguishable from naturals, no matter how advanced the detection equipment. Both companies expect to make diamonds cheap. And while they’re not intended specifically for jewelry, but rather the semiconductor industry, you can be sure that DeBeers will see some hard times in the near future.

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