Awesome Fashion Trend of the day - Wednesday!

My favorite of all time, quite possibly, the MOOD RING! Mine was always black though because I am in a constant state of freezingness, yet when it was blue it made me so happy (thus blue = happy!). I find it quite amusing that the guy who invited the mood ring also invented the Thighmaster - genius much?!?

My mood ring looked like this:


THE ORIGINAL:


Kinda cool variation:


Random Stuff: Virtual Mood ring - clearly based on nothingness, but amusing none-the-less Virtual Mood Ring

Wikipedia: A mood ring is a novelty ring which changes color in response to body temperature, using a thermochromic liquid crystal. A form of biofeedback, they supposedly indicated the temperament of the wearer, indicated by the ring's color. Mood rings were a fad whose popularity peaked in the United States in the 1970s, and they are now seen as an icon of 1970s culture.

There are many different types of mood ring, and it generally depends on the manufacturer what the 'meanings' of the colors are, although, the most common ones are listed below. They come in necklaces, earrings, toerings, and finger rings. Generally speaking, the finger rings and the earrings are the most popular.

History
The Mood Ring was invented by Joshua Reynolds, who also invented the Thighmaster, and was the heir to the Richard Joshua Reynolds tobacco fortune. Reynolds envisioned the mood rings as 'portable biofeedback aids', and managed to sell $1 million worth of them in a three month period in 1975. Even so, the company went bankrupt, victim of a flooded market of imitations.

Workings of a Mood Ring
The 'stone' in a mood ring is essentially thermotropic crystals covered or surrounded by glass. These crystals are very sensitive. When their temperature changes, their components change, or 'twist'. Light that hits upon the crystals will have different wavelengths absorbed and reflected. For more information on the perception of colors, see Color. The heat from your finger is conducted to the inside of the ring, and 'twists' the crystals inside. The crystals then reflect different wavelengths of light, thereby changing the color of the ring.

The meanings of various colors
Due to fluctuations in the making of mood rings by various companies, interpretation of mood ring colors are not universal. However, a certain standard is fairly prevalent, and is the only one commonly found in any form of documentation. This standard is based on the crystals being calibrated to have the color green reflected at 82 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 27.8 degrees Celcius), which is the typical surface temperature of people. Variations of the actual 'neutral temperature', caused by differing surface temperatures among different people, as well as effects from outside temperatures, cause mood ring measurements to differ, and make their readouts rather unreliable.


Black: Tense, nervous, harassed, overworked
Gray: Anxious, nervous, strained
Amber: Nervous, emotions mixed, unsettled
Green: Average reading. Active, not under great stress
Blue-green: Emotionally charged, somewhat relaxed
Blue: Relaxed, at ease, calm
Dark blue: happy, romantic , passion.
When people undergo stress, their surface body temperature drops. This is represented in the mood ring's color phasing from the neutral green to amber, to Grey, to black. Conversely, a passionate mood causes one's capillaries to move closer to the surface, raising surface temperature. This is rendered in the mood ring by the color moving toward blue-green, blue, and then a darkened blue.
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In popular culture
A mood ring plays a central part in the 1991 movie My Girl.
'Mood Rings' is a song by Relient K released on their fourth LP 'Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do' released on March 11th, 2003. It was written by the lead singer Matt Thiessen and it's about emotional girls and their unpredictability.
In the 2006 SciFi-Movie UltraViolet, the protagonist Violet Song jat Shariff played by Milla Jovovich wears clothes and has hair that change according to her mood.
R&B singer Mýa named her third CD Moodring because she felt each song represented a different color.

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I hate it when already rich people invent cool things that make them richer...let the poor people in on the action!

my mood ring never worked...I am an enigma I guess...even at age 7

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I had one of those!

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Mine was always black too!!!! But it was still cool!!

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I wore one in high school and it seemed like it was always black. Which would freak me out even more so it never turned any other color. I would concentrate really hard to make it turn another color but never with any luck.

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So Wierd, i was unpacking a bag from a trip I was on in May and I had some promotional stuff in it and there was a Mood Ring in the bag!