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Hot New TrendsCancer Survivor Branded Booze - Cleavage Creek's Charity Wine
Mother's Day is coming up and Napa's Cleavage Creek Cellars will celebrate this day by releasing the 2006 Reserve Chardonnay and the Secret White wines which are two of their world class wines. The bottles will be sold for $15 instead of the usual $30 to $40 and 10 percent of the gross sales of the …
$1,000 Sushi - Foie Gras High Roller at Koi
I'm a passionate sushi connoisseur, but even I couldn't fathom spending $1,000 on a roll. Apparently the chefs at Koi in New York didn't have customers like me in mind when concocting the High Roller, an ultra luxury sushi roll stuffed with foie gras.
The outside of the roll is wrapped in langoust…
Reclaimed Wood Vehicles - Diederick Kraaijeveld's Wood Cars (GALLERY)
Diederick Kraaijeveld is a self-taught artist who makes cars out of salvaged wood. Kraaijeveld's cars measure approximately 50 inches and are made of wood he finds during traveling throughout Holland and abroad.
Kraaijeveld does not use any paint as every piece of his vehicles is made out of genui…
Cartoon Hero Fashion - Superhero Style (GALLERY)
BAM! If you want fashion with punch, you'll love these fashion designs. Inspired by comic book super heroes, these styles echo the recent fascination with the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibit at the Met in NYC as well as the influx of action movies on the big screen.
Featured in the galler…
Sogginess Preventing Cereal Bowls - EatMeCrunchy (GALLERY)
Here's an invention that even a Chief Trend Hunter would enjoy! If you've ever taken cereal to work or school, you know you either have to pack the milk separately or deal with blobs of sogginess hardly resemblant of the Cheerios you poured in that morning. Finally there's a solution.
The cereal l…
Converting Color into Sound - Bright-F Helps Color-Blind (GALLERY)
If you're suffer from color blindness then you're more likely to miss that vibrant red t-shirt in your white load. Ending up with pink undies is no fun as a guy, losing the ability to color coordinate your outfits is so frustrating due to your inability to recognize colors.
Designer Lifeng Yu has …
Visual Pieces of Paradise - Madagascar, a Piece of the World (GALLERY)
This is the work of Ukrainian ad agency Psyho Studio. They were commissioned to create the work for a travel agency to promote global tourism.
"Madagascar, a Piece of the World" is a rough translation of the name of this beautiful campaign which shows other "pieces" from other parts of the world. …
Guerrilla Gardeners - Seed Bombs for Green Rebels (VIDEO)
Frustrated that so much potential green space was being wasted in their cities, groups of "guerrilla gardeners" have organized late night sneak outs which involve planting miniature gardens around town.
Their goal is to transform previously neglected public spaces into green havens for urbanites t…
Bubble Baubles - Sabine Lang Jewelery (GALLERY)
This summer, ‘Bubbles’ could be the perfect beach accessory; they're fresh, subtle and airy. Sabine Lang's collection of frothy jewelery includes earrings, necklaces and brooches. The sudsy trinkets in clear and ‘milky’ designs look like they are just going to last for a brief moment before …
Soda Bottle Furniture - Chairs & Toys
Designer Jinhong Lin cuts the recycling cycle short by allowing you to instantly convert your soda bottles into a stool or table. I am not sure how comfortable this stool would be, but the table variation looks pretty neat!
Chairs & Toys needs 16 bottles with a standard size neck. You can use it as…
90s Disco Puppets - Drench Ads (VIDEO)
If you're a sucker for 90s dance music, here's an ad for you. This video, featuring a disco-dancing, nerd glasses-wearing puppet in a powder blue suit, is actually an ad for Drench Spring Water.
The Puppet Brains video from the Thunderbirds is backed by the catchy 90s dance hit, "Rhythm is a Dance…
Pablo Picasso in 3-D - Digitalized Guernica Painting (VIDEO)
To see Pablo Picasso's Guernica in 3-D is a rare treat.
The Guernica is perhaps Pablo Picasso's most famous painting. The work of art depicts the Nazi German Luftwaffe bombing of Guernica, Spain on April 26 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso, who was very affected by the bombing which kill…
Art Transforms Depending on Time of Day - *Relativity by Drzach & Suchy (GALLERY)
Drzach & Suchy use a special technique to create art pieces that completely change their image under different the light sources. The pieces in their *relativity collection display one image during the day, and a completely different image at night. Some pieces even display three images: morning, no…
Sculptural Heaters - The Octocube (GALLERY)
The strange-looking Octocube was created by designer Vivien Muller. The contraption is actually a heater created entirely from a single, 90 degree elbow, and that's quite remarkable.
"The Octocube builds up into a radiant heater with a large surface area, and the inherent flexibility and modularit…
Musical Sinks - The X-Light Surround
A musical washbasin is not such a bad idea... unless you wake up with a hangover from hell and are prone to agitation due to any type of noise. Other than that, the X-Light Surround basin, devised by Italian fixture makers WET and designed by Jan Puylaert, is pretty cool.
The musical sink will reg…
Detachable Phone Screens - Cuusoo Concept (GALLERY)
Japan-based designer Marimo-san has come up with this ingenious mobile concept that allows the user to detach the screen portion of the phone. This mechanism would allow you to conveniently engage in video phone calls on the go.
Marimo-san's design offers different variations of what the various a…
Cigarette Earrings - Butt Ugly Accessories
These unusual looking duds can be found for sale at http://www.etsy.com, with a host of other handmade crafts in their online market.
Of course they look ridiculous, but they do serve as a symbol of the potential ugly heath risks of smoking. They will probably never be a big hit in the fashion world, …
$170 Junkfood - Burger King Kobe Beefburger
Fast food is generally also cheap food, that's what gave chains like McDonalds their appeal... so why would Burger King deviate from that by launching a $166 cheeseburger? Specifically, the £85 Kobe beefburger.
Maybe offering a slab of fancy shmancy Japanese luxury beef topped with foie gras and …
American Idol Obsession - Weird eBay Memorabilia (GALLERY)
Back in the day I had some truly tasteless New Kids on the Block memorabilia. Today, there isn't much of a boy band for teenyboppers to flip over, so it would seem they've taken a lusty liking for their favorite American Idol contestants. MTV compiled a list of the most ridiculous items targeting th…
Zipper Clasps - ZipHolder (GALLERY)
As most guys know, an open zipper can be pretty embarrassing.
Well, worry no more. The ZipHolder makes sure you avoid such embarrassing situations, as it neatly and securely holds the zipper in place. The mechanism is achieved by attaching a small "rope" to the zipper handle which can be hooked to…