We can kind of get behind cats’ eye contact lenses, and we wonder why nobody has yet invented the mirror contact lens, but this Eye Jewelry from Amsterdamer Eric Klarenbeek can only be described as eye-watering. Dangly pendants affixed to suction cups, the hanging, tear-like eye-rings creep us out like nothing else we have seen this week.

Klarenbeek actually began this project back in 2005. That we haven’t seen any of these in shops shows just how impractical they might be. The video above features, judging by the excellent Nine Inch Nails soundtrack, a newer version of this ocular torture device.

We’re pretty sure this wouldn’t be dangerous — one tug and it would pull right out — but imagine the discomfort of blinking. A single stray eyelash is enough to have my eyes streaming like those of an emotional mother at a wedding. A length of fishing line hanging from my mince pies would be insufferable.

Product page [Eric Klarenbeek via the Giz]