14 DAY TRIAL // You haven't yet found a way to preserve your precious pictures of the loved ones? Say no more! Silicon Valley company Gemory LLC stated recently in a press release that it currently has the capability of inscribing high-resolution images onto diamonds and a series of other precious stones, without damaging the stone in any way.
The PureDiamond processes used by the Gemory LLC involves creating microscopic invisible images of the surfaces of precious stones with the help of nanotechnology. The image would be viewable with a GemmaView portable device produced by the same company.
However, skeptics believe that this is some kind of a bad joke or a hoax, since most of the methods previously used to create microscopic inscriptions on the surface of diamonds used lasers that would create a graphite residue on the surface of the diamond.
Not only that this method never succeeded in creating inscriptions more detailed than a few letters, but the graphite is highly reactive with the air moisture, which would determine it to wash right off the surface of the diamond, only to leave behind a hard to read inscription.
Furthermore, the extreme temperatures of the laser used to melt away part of the diamonds surface would cause the stone to change part of its optical properties such as clarity, thus reducing its value.
The real intentions of the Gemory LLC company are looking looking kind of shady as well. The domain of their web page is registered to a anonymous person through another website, while their home page through a strange coincidence mentions a certain Jay A. Mednikow, President of J. H. Mednikow & Company, which allegedly might have studied at the University of Harvard and Duke University.
The business becomes even more strange when a professor of Duke University is quoted in the press release, but it just seems that the respective professor might just be the only one of all the members of the faculty without a web page.
Their 'method' of diamond inscription is thought to eliminate forgery and theft by creating unique patterns on its surface, which cannot be duplicated through any of the currently available inscription methods.