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With the XM onyX, it's easy to enjoy Satellite Radio in any vehicle. Do-It-Yourself Installation with PowerConnect is quick and effortless: Just plug it into your vehicle's power adapter socket to enjoy live Satellite Radio directly through your FM radio. The large color display and other advanced features maximize your listening experience. You can even personalize onyX to match your vehicle's dashboard with selectable display screen colors and trim rings. Add accessories to enjoy onyX in the home, office or anywhere in between.

With the XM onyX, it's easy to enjoy Satellite Radio in any vehicle. Do-It-Yourself Installation with PowerConnect is quick and effortless: Just plug it into your vehicle's power adapter socket to enjoy live Satellite Radio directly through your FM radio. The large color display and other advanced features maximize your listening experience. You can even personalize onyX to match your vehicle's dashboard with selectable display screen colors and trim rings. Add accessories to enjoy onyX in the home, office or anywhere in between.

With the XM onyX, it's easy to enjoy Satellite Radio in any vehicle. Click to enlarge.

Easy-to-install PowerConnect vehicle kit included. Click to enlarge.

Personalize your radio with different trim rings. Click to enlarge.
Large color display
View artist name, song title, and channel information on a clean and simple color display.
Customize your display
Choose the backlight color theme that matches your mood or your vehicle dash lights. You can change the color of the display screen to one of 6 color themes: Blue, Red, Amber, Yellow, Silver, or Teal.
Personalize your radio
Choose the trim ring that reflects your taste or complements your vehicle interior. The Trim Ring surrounds the Select button on the radio. A total of three trim rings are included with the onyX, including the one that is already installed.
Improved audio connection options
Use the included Aux In Cable for the best sound. For vehicles with a cassette player, you can use a cassette adapter. If you have neither, the new PowerConnect technology transmits via FM, so you can receive audio through your vehicle's stereo system.
Enhanced real-time channel guide
Browse programs, artists, and songs playing on other channels, without having to change the channel you are on.
Favorite channel presets
Save and enjoy fast access to up to 10 of your favorite channels. Each favorite channel can be assigned to a number button.
FM preset button
Store and quickly access FM channels that give you the best audio reception when using PowerConnect.
One-Touch Jump
Directly access traffic or weather of the 20 most congested cities, or use it to go back to the previous channel to which you were listening.
Parental controls
Easily lock and unlock channels with mature content.
Complete PowerConnect Vehicle Kit Included
Color-coded connections make it a snap to install, and a wire guide keeps your cabling organized.
Universal docking capability
Add accessories for your home, office, additional vehicles or even outdoors.
What's in the Box
XM onyX Radio, PowerConnect Vehicle Kit, Magnetic Mount Antenna, Aux In Cable, User Guide, Quick Start Guide, XM Channel Guide

This particular creation was inspired by a gold and sapphire ring which belonged to William Wytlesey, Archibishop of Canterbury between 1362 and 1374. The gemstone was drilled, an artisan practice thought to increase the magical properties and healing powers of stones that were inset into jewelry. The original ring was said to have been found in William's tomb, with his name inscribed inside.

Jewelry was worn by all ages and genders in the middle ages, and often had functional purposes as well as decorative ones. Pieces were often ornate and elaborate, with courtly love appearing as a central theme in many creations. This is the "intent" that this ring was infused with during it's creation.

Curious about the historical details behind this ring and other jewelry from it's time period? We've shared some of our favourite facts with you on this below:

•) This Collection's Historical Roots and Inspirations (•

Jewelry was worn by all ages and genders in the middle ages, and often had functional purposes as well as decorative ones. Pieces were often ornate and elaborate, with courtly love appearing as a central theme in many creations.

•) Metals and Stones (•

Most medieval jewelry was crafted with gold and silver, decorated with colourful enamels, niello (a black alloy of silver, sulphur and lead) and gemstones. Rubies, sapphires and pearls were favourite choices, and markedly different from the faceted cuts set into jewelry today. Medieval gems were generally polished instead, creating pebble-like shapes with soft pools of colour. This cabochon cut is what gives jewelry from this period such a distinctively rustic look and feel.

While the colour of stones added to the beauty of a piece, they were often chosen for their healing or spiritual powers. This was a widely embraced part of the culture during middle ages, and something we personally embrace as we set out to craft new collections of "intentionally created" jewelled art at Alchemy Immortalis.

•) Magical Properties and Healing Powers (•

Much was written about these powers, including eleventh century references to stones such as sapphires, which were considered to possess the power to protect one against physical injury, fear, fraud and envy, and also to protect one's chastity. While sapphires were revered for their significance as a sign of peace and reconciliation, they were also thought to have the ability to promote the healing of ulcers, eye conditions and headaches. Some gemstones contained fossilized fish teeth (known as toadstones), and were also embedded into jewelry because they were thought to have similar healing powers.

You will sometimes find that stones have been drilled. This was done in the belief that it would increase the effectiveness of the stone's power.

Because of this belief in the magical and healing properties of many stones, they were often set into jewelry in a way that provided direct contact with the skin. Open-backed settings were a common feature of rings and pendants, thought to increase the effectiveness of a stone's magical or healing powers.

In addition to precious stones, other substances were sometimes used to infuse jewelry with special powers. For instance, the "unicorn horn" -- the name given to the horn of the dolphin-like Narwhal at the time -- was sometimes cut into semi-circular pieces and mounted on gold chains as a means of detecting poison.

•) Pendants (•

Pendants were prolific during the Renaissance, and again worn by both genders and all ages. Men and children tended to wear them hung on a chain around their neck, while women often fixed them to their girdles, bodices, sleeves or ruffles with ribbons or pins. Intended to hang freely, the backs were often as ornately decorated as the fronts.

Artisans of the time tended to craft pendants out of gold and enamels, generously nestled in beds of precious stones, such as diamonds or ambergris, and the naturally shaped baroque pearls which became wildly popular at the end of the 16th century.

•) Design as a Nod to an Expanding World (•

The beginning of the sixteenth century was marked by the excitement of exploration by sea, and the wild and perilous journeys embarked on to trade with distant continents. This was celebrated in the crafting of elaborately jewelled pieces that included galleons, sea monsters and mermaids at the time.

•) Personal Expression (•

People living in the renaissance often chose pieces of jewelry for the same reasons that many of us do today: as an expression of some unique aspect of their personality or the things they care most about. As we do now, people would sometimes choose jewelled pieces bearing an animal or symbol as a nod to some personal context or joke.

Certain animals and talismans had particular significance at the time. For instance, the "salamander" was considered to be a sign of passionat

This was a fun ring to make as the client came to us with a $20 ring she'd picked up on a road trip and liked it so much, she wanted it made in Gold with genuine stones. We have since made several of these with different Gold colors and stones. It is a great unisex ring. Men love it for its "Superbowl" ring style!