I just got 2 of the coolest keyrings ever. The scorpion is from my brother who went somewhere hotter than the UK for a holiday. And Boba Fett is from the Lego shop.



Please feel free to post pics of a cooler keyring if you have one. I have my doubts though...

To kill an innocent animal just to make keyring from it.
It is not cool in any way!

I don't think they killed it, it was already dead You know how they only make those decorations out of sand dollars by finding dead ones washed up on the shore? They probably do the same actions when making those keychains. Otherwise ASPCA would have stopped them by now.

And I don't have that many 'cool' keychains per se, but in my 'Box of Memories' I have a Golden Domo-Kun keychain that I found underwater when I was vacationing in Indiana Dunes as a lil' kid *sigh* memories...

--JC--

I have this (in stainless steel)

with my all keys on it. It keeps things organized, and looks awesome. In case you can't tell from the picture what it is, take a trefoil knot enclosed in a circle, and fill in the minimal surface with those two curves as its boundary.

Check out "Oliver" on shapeways for similar surfaces.

Iranon, I think that one must've been a real pig to make. I love it.

I don't know if these are the "coolest" but they are my favorites...


(lightake)

and


(gift from the lego store)

P.S - I love Star Wars!!

Simply brilliant!!!




Pantazis

I used to collect Keychains (key rings), maybe I will dig some out to take pictures...I had roughly 100 at last count.

I found some neat ones.



Those ones are "moving" keychains. The word "Newfoundland" slides back and forth, and the Statue of Liberty opens to reveal the inscription that can be found at the base of the real statue in New York.



2 Mario keychains (one from a vending machine, the other from the Cows Store on Prince Edward Island). The Cows store always has the best keychains. They are known for their bovine parodies of pop-culture figures (MooTube, Buzz Lightsteer, etc.). The others are a stoplight from a garage sale and a drum from a cultural festival.



I will admit that the UK has very good keychains. The London Eye moves in a circle along the Z axis due to a series of ball-bearings in the middle. The Royal Yacht Britannia and the Hard Rock Cafe both rotate along the Y axis and there is one that is shaped like bagpipes.



Every year my city holds a festival to celebrate the Voyageurs, or fur-traders, that traveled around Canada to explore and trade furs (Beaver-felt hats, for example, were very popular in Europe in the 1600s). I have collected 4 keychains with fur tails: 3 large and 1 small (they were out of large that year).



Here are some more assorted keychains. There is a puzzle (objective: assemble into a square), a Blue Man group keychain (unremarkable except that the Blue Man Group is pretty cool IMHO), a solar-powered keychain from Scouts Canada (it blinks on and off), a bug in clear plastic (like the one that inspired the first post), and a baseball mitt that I made myself from a die-casting machine that sadly no longer exists .



Lastly is the coolest keychain of all: it comes form the Cows store mentioned above, and when you open it, it buzzes and whirs and the cows "graze" (move their heads up and down) and the hens swivel side-to-side (like they are drunk??). Unfortunately, the spring broke as I was taking the photographs (I have had this since I was a child; it was the first keychain that I actually bothered to keep and keep track of).

I've wanted to get a tritium glowring (can be used as a keyring) for a while now. It contains a sealed vial of tritium (Hydrogen-3 isotope) which is advertised to glow continuously for 10 years. I believe that in reality, they lose half their brightness after 12 years (Hydrogen-3 has a half-life of 12 years). I like odd/unique things, and having a glowing radioactive keyring is definitely awesome.

Ben

Quicksolver - if you collect enough of those fur keyrings, can you trade them for a whole animal?

I also found a wierd one that has colored water drops inside it that separate themselves by color Water and oil chemistry I think...

--JC--

Laser cut and etched- just got it a week ago!