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Friday, November 16, 2007

Maintaining An Election

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As the presidential election draws closer, the pressure to learn about each candidate and figure out who might be the best choice grows. A n...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

He's Just Not That India

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You know the drill: A quick call to customer service gets you some guy with a thick foreign accent living across the International Date Line...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Dish Water

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Designer Erdem Selek came up with this smart design, called the Planter Dish Drip, which waters a houseplant with water from hand-washed di...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Knock Your Socks Off

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While speculation about Sex and the City movie plot lines continue to run hot, one thing is for certain - Carrie Bradshaw's fashion sens...

Poster Service

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No room for a lamp on your cluttered desk? Hang a picture of one on the wall that actually shines light, instead. Irish designer Finn Magee ...

Edible Cocktails

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Looks like the days of doing jello shots from small paper cups could be going the way of rotary phones and palm pilots. The newest things hi...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Human LCD

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Using color-coordinated clothing rather than cards , soccer fans in South Korea have been creating amazing synchronized routines in stadium ...
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Get "Sets" - Go!

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Just in case shopping online looking at lots and lots of stuff you desperately want but can't afford isn't fun enough, I have news f...
Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Weigh Too Funny

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For the weight conscious with a sense of humor along comes the hilarious Celebrity Weighing Scales ($50). You'll no longer weigh in pou...
Thursday, October 4, 2007

High-Techno Club

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A new nightclub in London, twentyfour: london , is designed to appeal to the high-tech "wouldn't it be great if holodecks were real...

Turning Out Hits

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Music boxes came to prominence in the 19th Century, but their history dates back a few hundred more years. You see, there was this bell ring...

Stirrup A New Look

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So there's been buzz that the stirrup is back, but I'm still convinced that it's all coming from the denim companies, trying to ...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

About Time

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No one ever says, "It's 11:43" when you ask for the time. They'll say, "It's quarter till", or "Almost ...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Weigh To Go

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The Ricardo Beverly Hills Solutions Travel Luggage Collection has recently won the Product Innovation Award, an award that recognizes excel...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Smoke Out

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There are a lot of places people are prohibited from smoking these days. Trains, planes, elevators, restaurants, offices, and so on and so f...

Money Changes Everything

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The five-dollar bill is getting a face lift! Uncle Sam is unveiling a new design for the $5 bill, to make it harder to counterfeit. Click he...

No Strings Attached

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JumpSnap is the first computerized ropeless jump rope. Great for those with low ceilings, the JumpSnap electronically tallies calories burn...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Jump On The Soundwagon

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Soundwagon is a tiny VW bus that will play all your records. Just set down Soundwagon on a record and it plays your music as it drives - it...

Uber Cool

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Things are running uber-smoothly for Uber.com , the sophisticated new social networking and media sharing community that I clicked through s...

R S (He) P

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ManVite is a new Guy's night invation for men service where guys can invite friends over to any occasion of their choice with a few sim...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

It's Worth A Shot

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Because everyone needs ice-cold Jägermeister on hand, at all times. Okay, maybe that's stretching it a bit, but the Chilled Shot Machine...

Don't Tase Me, Bro!

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A tasing leads to a new slogan. The video of Andrew Meyer's stunt/police tasing during a John Kerry lecture in Florida is ubitquitous, ...

Turn The Tables

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Furniture design’s favorite couple, Form and Function is at it again. The power duo that makes and breaks the barriers of space, has taken o...

Acoustic(e) Guitars

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What’s a proper party without the right accoutrements? Be picky with the invites. Nix those tacky crepe umbrellas. And don’t even think abou...

Pop Your Top

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Coca Cola is reportedly working on a self-chilling beverage . The beverage is nothing new, good old Sprite. The insta-cool, though, is cutti...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Story Of My Quarterlife

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MySpaceTV will distribute this new online series called Quarterlife which is about six young adults in a big city who all long for careers ...

You're A Life Saver

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The Life Saver water bottle is a military grade water sanitizer that can make the dirtiest of water drinkable in seconds. The bottle not on...
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Doctor Feel Good

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Dr. Whippy is a machine that offers soft scoop ice cream according to the perceived unhappiness level of the customer. By asking you a seri...
Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Persol Null

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The work of actually designing clothes deservedly gets most of the attention during fashion week, but, in terms of what people will actually...

Sale Phone

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If you love shopping, and you own a phone, you’ll flip for this trend! Forget going to stores or even shopping online, now you can shop stra...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007

'Spokes' Models

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Bicycles are quickly becoming a major fashion accessory. This trend is not only for exceptionally good looking women (like Chloe Sevigny pic...

The Neck's Big Thing

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Smart. Sexy. Stylish. Enough about me. Meet the newest collection of neckwear from Alexander Olch , Manhattan’s hottest tie maker. Olch star...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Drink To Your Health

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MonaVie is a new berry elixir that's receiving rave reviews from Vogue, Oprah (so it must be amazing) and Playboy for its health benefi...

A Fish Out Of Water

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Unless you're throwing a surprise party for Heathcliff, I personally don't see the appeal of Fishbone Ice Cubes in the shape of fis...
Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Map Quest

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I'm not sure if Miss South Carolina had anything to do with this new trend but I have been seeing a lot of map themed gifts popping up l...

Customer Service

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An inventor in Nuremberg, Germany has just opened a fully-automated restaurant, Baggers that delivers meals to diners via a gravity-powered...

Bookcase In Point

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It's rare to see a bookshelf with enough moxie to become the focal point of a room, but that's certainly the case with the Quad Book...

Up To No Good

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No Good TV is a new internet television portal making a lot of buzz with its funny, sexy programming that appeals to the young male demogr...

Virtual Insanity

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My Second Life is a new documentary filmed entirely in the online world of Second Life just got bought by HBO; will head to Sundance and po...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007

What A Croc

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Love them or hate them, the brightly colored foamy clogs lauded for their comfort, anti-microbial properties and amphibious nature is making...
Thursday, August 30, 2007

Not So Easy On The Eyes

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Now here’s a jewel hot enough to make grown men weep. Literally. This little piece of finger bling doubles as a weapon. The Stunning Ring i...
Wednesday, August 29, 2007

House Everything?

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Cool concept: a billboard-based house by Polish architecture firm Front Architects. Single-mast design means you can place the domicile jus...

Put Your Best Faceball Forward

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Faceball is the newest sport to come out of the cubicle jungle. The game involves hitting your opponents in the face with a ball. That’s ri...
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Feathered Hair

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Feathers are set to be a huge trend for fall fashions for women. Actually you can find some feather silk screened shirts out there for men i...

Pownce On It

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Just launched at the end of June 2007, Pownce is a microblogging/social networking site created by Digg founder Kevin Rose that has become ...

Message In The Bottle

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There is a huge trend in Alcoholic drinks being geared towards women: there is Karla beer from Germany and Karmi from Poland, and wine fro...
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Screen Your Calls

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Even more so than in the US, people in Japan are overwhelmingly addicted to text messaging, mainly because making cell phone calls in public...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Corkscrew With A Twist

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A thrilling victory deserves a thrilling wine. So, when the occasion arrives to celebrate and you order that bottle of Veuve Clicquot insist...

Works Like A Dog

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What do you call an electronic toy puppy that grows to full size and learns your name, its own name, and various activities? Why, Puppy Grow...

A Whole New Ball Game

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If you’re a frequent live sports or concert attendee, the site of a beach ball bobbing around the crowd is a common vision of community play...
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chris
Chris is always looking for innovative trends in fashion and lifestyle driven by his curiosity for the good life. He loves to stay up to date on the new in places to go, the latest in music and eccentric new concepts. What he writes about today is what you’ll like tomorrow. That is not meant to sound pompous, it is just part of being a good trend hunter, which is the art of figuring out what is on the edge. It is not about what's already popular, because what's popular is already old.
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