Don’t you just wish you could wear your tweets? Maybe you could get them printed on a t-shirt or #hashtag your hat! Been there, done that?

How about a “laser-cut, laser-etched acrylic necklace that displays your tweets as a data visualisation”? We bet you don’t have one of those! And now you can have one of your very own – but they’re not cheap.

The Data Necklace is the brainchild of ”Stef Lewandowski, a designer, software developer and startup person – a hacker for short” and he lives and works in London.

The story of how this whole thing started is a bit long, so read the whole thing here – but to sum up: Combining computer science and “generative art” concepts, he set out to create something unusual and interesting using software – and the Data Necklace was born. Eventually.

But what the heck IS it? It doesn’t look like tweets, right? Here’s what you would see up close:

The progression of time is represented by twelve pairs of beads, each representing up to a month of data. One of each pair is cut to represent the statistics through its length, notches cut into its sides, and overlaid smaller lengths to illustrate “love/awesome/amazing”. A second in the pair holds a tiny reminder of that time – one of the most interesting tweets containing the keyword.

These individual tweets are laser-etched into the acrylic, and in the opaque materials (there are semi-transparent options available) are only visible by the wearer when they are lifted up by hand.

Well then! Sounds pretty awesome, does it not? You know you want one for the special rapid-fire tweeter in your life.

Prices range from £220 - 320 and limited supplies are promised for December 25 delivery.

Will you be ordering one?

(DataNecklace image from DataNecklace.com)