MOYA @ NRC November 11, 2024
Friday night I was still working late in my studio and listening to ‘Met het oog op morgen’ on Radio 1. There I heard about the day of the inventor, which would take place the next day. And so I was sitting with inventors for coffee on Saturday morning, listening to fantastic stories and showing one of my ideas to an expert…
NRC 11 November 2024, by Hans Steketee
Wearable jokes/quirks
The technical feats of goldsmith Eline van der Laag are “not useful but they are exciting”. Like a ring with a ‘carousel’ of diamonds on the outside that you can turn around your finger. And the ring she is wearing now, which consists of rotating rods, white gold on one side, yellow gold on the other, so that you can turn the ring – she shows – inside out. “I try to make people laugh, myself first,” she says. “They are wearable jokes.”
On the radio she heard an item about Inventors’ Day and the possibility of having an expert look at an idea. She had one lying around for ten years, something that she believes “the whole world wants to wear”. But then someone else has to produce it and how do you do that? She comes out of the conversation beaming; the expert was immediately very enthusiastic, she says, and gave her advice, starting with applying for a patent.