Picking the perfect Valentine's Day gift for the woman in your life can be more fraught with fatal errors than a pirated copy of Windows XP.

Roses are tired. Lingerie is always trickier than it should be. Diamonds come with too much baggage.

Soap is soap. No matter how it's packaged, and no matter how many times you tell her that these super-special suds came from the rain forests of New Guinea, she knows what it is: It's soap.

This year, take a hint from us and forgo the bath salts for something a little more thoughtful, a little more nerdy, a little more, well, Wired.

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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but precious metal is her boyfriend.

At least, that's the story according to Joe Johnson and Jeanju Choi-Johnson, the design duo (and real life couple) behind these elegant knuckle-dusters. It might not be the ring she was expecting, but with the atomic weight, number and symbol of the element from which it's made printed right on the face, at least she'll know it's not cubic zirconia.

Each ring is made to order. They come in platinum, 14K gold or sterling silver. —Ramona Emerson

WIRED How many people can say their jewelry won an International Design Award? Extra points for being able to leave a super-nerdy mark on someone if you punch him in the face.

TIRED Bulky shape will be an obstacle to hand-holding. Comes in only three elements, none of them uranium. Pricey: Only the silver is actually affordable.

$295-$6,000, Itsnoname