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Markets in everything, Beethoven edition
A company called Life Gem is making three diamonds out of DNA taken from Beethoven's hair, allowing a few lucky people to walk around with literally a piece of the famous composer on their hands. Creepy.
The company can also make diamonds out of less famous corpses, allowing you to carry around a piece of your departed loved one in bling form forever and ever. Or at least until you croak and get turned into a diamond. It's the circle of life!
Here is the link. And while we're on the markets topic, here is a neat idea from Japan.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on February 16, 2007 at 07:03 AM in Economics | Permalink
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If you want an inexpensive yet "tangible" connection with Beethoven, go sing at a workshop with leading choral composer/arranger John Rutter if ever you get the chance. Rutter offers the opportunity to shake his hand that at nine times removed has been shaken by Beethoven's (based on a lineage of pupil/teacher relationships etc of which he is part). All for the price of a CD or book, which he'll also willingly sign of course. You have to have sung through Faure's Requiem and his own Feel the Spirit, which is a real hardship. But overall I felt my utility was increased.
Posted by: knackeredhack at Feb 16, 2007 10:10:32 AM
My understanding is that human hair contains proteins but not DNA (except where some skin cells attach to the follicles). So even if the vendor has a preserved hair sample, and turns the carbon in the sample into diamonds, the marketing is flawed.
Posted by: dd at Feb 18, 2007 10:13:45 AM
I will have to agree with that being pretty creepy, but i can see how some people might appreciate that.
I suppose there are some pretty weird people out there. The person who came up with this idea is pretty
much going to be loaded, i can see this as a big thing in the future. Its a little far out for me, but
whatever floats your boat, these diamonds will probably be the norm in the near future.
Posted by: james at Feb 18, 2007 4:33:10 PM
I beleive that this diamond making process is taking things to a different level. I think that yes it would be neat to have a piece of a famous person with you but not the point where I would want to carry around their DNA with me. Now dont get me wrong i would love to have a diamond any day but this kind might be a little to much for me. Although it is something different to think about it might be the thing to do for some people. This is an example of how the things are changing for the future.
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