Yo Baby, Yo Baby, How You Like My Pheromone Ring?

You know what the problem is with the current market for rings?  Just watch any jewelry store commercial, they’re all basically the same.  Two thirtysomething women with the fear of never getting married in their eyes drink sauvignon blanc, and one is like, I have something to show you, and takes out a ring, and the other one is like, OMFG HE TOOK YOU TO ZALES???  AND BOUGHT YOU A METAL CIRCLE??  That means he would like literally take a bullet in the neck for you and you should just start looking for wedding cakes and stop taking your no-babies pills right now.

Unfortunately that’s the only kind of ring there is.  But what if you want a ring that sends the message, “It’s pretty unlikely that I will ever love you, but maybe what if we had regrettable sex with each other?”  What if there were a ring that actually made the opposite gender desire you in a purely physical way?  There is now such a ring.  More pics, ATJ.

The S Ring releases one of six different delicious perfumey scents when you squeeze it – 3 for men, 3 for women, 0 for transsexuals.  The scent solutions are laced with pheromones, the chemicals that your body releases when it sees another body it wants to do stuff with.  The ring “can be used to relax or be playful,” according to the designer.  But how am I supposed to relax with all these beautiful women swarming all over me because of my love smell ring?

From the ring description:

Playfully the wearer could then open their hand and direct the scent, perhaps toward a desirable other. While we may not be able to accurately effect the behavior of others with pheromones now, in twenty years that could change. Imagine a pheromone mix concocted after analyzing the desirable’s DNA. Without their knowing, their behavior could be unconsciously influenced. Trying to read others’ motives and protecting yourself from unseen influences may be part of the future. Or perhaps a new art of facilitated communication will emerge.

Noble goals for a noble invention!  Yet I fear that much like the broomstick and the Dick Cheney mask, this technology will be ruined by perverts.

Source: Alexander Reeder via Geekologie.