Jewelry

Photo: Dua Rashid / GizmodoBose just released its latest Ultra Open Earbuds, which look exactly like ear cuffs on your cartilage. I checked them out at a briefing a few weeks ago and was impressed by the design. They offer a lightweight build and a unique mechanism that clasps onto your ear cartilage instead of going inside your ear canal. I had them on for quite a bit during the briefing while we were going over its controls and modes and found them extremely inconspicuous in terms of both size and weight. The $300 pair…

Luxury precious rings in a row on display in a jewelry store at a high-end shopping mall.Craig Hastings | Moment | Getty ImagesRoses are red, violets are blue, gemstones are hot and prices are too.Valentine's Day has long been one of the most popular days of the year for jewelry and engagements. U.S. consumers will spend a record $6.4 billion on jewelry around Valentine's Day this year, representing 10% of the total annual spend, according to Ankur Daga, founder and CEO of fine jewelry e-commerce company Angara.This year,…

For eons, humans have worn personal ornaments that tether them to their people; precious items that reflect a clan identity through life and into the grave. But those cultural associations don't always follow family lines.A new study comparing thousands of pendants from across ice age Europe, dating to between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago, suggests there were at least nine distinct cultural groups of hunter-gatherers within the broader population referred to as the Gravettians, each with their own relatively distinct…

Bling isn’t a modern invention; humans have been wearing what anthropologists call personal ornamentation for tens of thousands of years. And the distinct ways prehistoric people adorned themselves can illuminate long-vanished cultures. A new study has used more than 100 types of beads, made of shells, ivory and other materials, to determine that there were at least nine distinct cultural groups living in the then frozen landscapes of Europe between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago.These cultures were so distinct that you…

Bronze metalwork deposited at Papowo Biskupie. Credit: A. Piasecka Excavation at the dried-out lake site of Papowo Biskupie in north-central Poland has revealed more than 550 bronze artifacts, providing the most telling evidence of ritual deposition of metal by the occupants of the region from 1200–450 BC, known as the Chełmno group. The Chełmno group…

When Evelyn Schaffer first saw her engagement ring, she was speechless.It was a 0.76-carat, oval-cut stunner — and she said no one has been able to tell that the diamonds were created in a lab."I've never seen anything like it and it's gorgeous," Schaffer said. "The lab-grown diamonds are actually more sparkly in my opinion."As consumer awareness grows, the popularity of gems that are manufactured, not mined, is surging.By some estimates, lab-grown diamonds make up nearly 20 per cent of the total global diamond jewelry…

Walmart started carrying lab-grown diamonds last year in select stores. Now, it has expanded that to nearly 90 items that range from $78 to $498 available at the majority of its stores.Mike Calia | CNBCSECAUCUS, N.J. — Here, shoppers can browse engagement rings, tennis bracelets and pendant necklaces displayed behind glass. Then, they can walk a few yards to grab milk, cereal or socks.Welcome to Walmart.During recent inflation, the world's largest retailer attracted new and higher-income shoppers with cheaper groceries.…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. You can’t quite explain the feeling of being gifted jewelry — partly because it’s hard to quantify a personal sentiment but also because when gifted the right thing, it’s like the other person sees you in totality. Suddenly, this tiny gift has become a personification of who you are. Sounds magical, right? “Thoughtful and personal gifts always have an extra special…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. One week before Coachella, earlier this spring, the team behind New York City-based jewelry maker Catbird started working on a special last-minute custom project. The result: a set of yellow gold lapel pins for boygenius — a.k.a., the supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus. After donning the custom pieces on the road, the pins, which are…

In 27 minutes, millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry vanished from a Brink’s tractor-trailer in Lebec, Calif., last year. The fallout from the heist has been ugly, with Brink’s Co. suing the victimized merchants, who then filed their own suit against the company. Bloomberg Businessweek partnered with Los Angeles Times reporters Daniel Miller and Richard Winton, who’ve covered the story, for an illustrated look at the crime. Here’s what we know about how it went down.…