WARNING: The photos & video featured are not for the faint of heart.

Graduate student Naomi Kizhner has created “speculative” jewelry that uses a person’s veins as an electrical power source. Since the jewelry has to be embedded in someone’s skin, Kizhner created the project to demonstrate just how far we will go to “‘feed’ our addictions in a world of declining resources,” she told Cosmopolitan.

[via The Higher Learning]