Elite Gifts

We might not be driving to work every day in flying cars, but there’s no denying that the Space Age has provided mankind with a multitude of discoveries and innovations. Some of these are directly related to space exploration, and others came about almost accidentally. Many of the items that we use regularly in the course of our daily lives were developed for much different reasons.

Dichroic glass is just one example. NASA developed this particular type of glass for use in mirrors on satellites. Today, jewelers craft and sell the result of that innovation:  dichroic necklaces. These necklaces feature a unique sparkle that can only be attained through a complex glass-making process involving quartz crystal, metal oxides and an electron beam gun.