Dane recently asked “How are you profiting from the World Cup?” Well, I found these cool T-shirts from Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam. Apparently when your team scores a goal and your facial expression isn’t exciting enough, you pull the shirt up over your head exposing a second more excited cheering face.(Perhaps a celebrity […]
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Chuck Pretto couldn’t figure out how to carry around his new iPad. So he decided to wear it. After ordering Apple Inc.’s new multimedia tablet last month, the 52-year-old property manager realized it might weigh down his briefcase. He didn’t have another bag or carrier to cradle the 9.7-inch,
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Here’s our iPad story for the day. Paul Stamatiou caught this photo in Atlanta. Could this be the start of an iPad line of fashion wear? Somebody call Flavor Flav! Photo by Paul Stamatiou.
For those not willing to stuff their jeans with electronics–however well-suited those jeans might be–the Bandee is a multifunctional sash designed to hold mobile phones, iPods and all sorts of other gadgets that otherwise fill up pockets or get lost in handbags, according to a story at trendspotter Springwise. The award-winning Bandee is a “multifunctional
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Kristina Giedra always thought she’d become a music teacher, says the Glendale Heights Press. But things just didn’t work out that way. After receiving a green card to come to America a decade ago, Giedra landed a nanny job with a Naperville family and began taking college management and marketing courses. With her degree, she
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Their shoe is not on the market yet, but if students at A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School have their way, it will be in the near future, reports The Augusta Chronicle. Step It Up is a flat women’s shoe that comes with a short heel, a high heel and a wedge heel.
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According to a story in The Tampa Tribune, area schoolchildren are flocking to Walgreens stores in droves – but not for vaccinations. The draw is a must-have bracelet. And a Walgreens manager says the store is doing everything it can to keep up with the demand. Silly Bandz, multicolored silicone bracelets, come in a variety
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From jeans to bicycles, fabrics to sleeping bags, we’ve seen a wide array of products consumers can design themselves. Lest swim shorts aficionados feel left out, however, there’s now a design-your-own site for those too–and it even rewards creators with cold, hard cash, according to a story at trendspotter Springwise. Aiming to do for swim
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Founded: 2009 What it is: ShoeDazzle is an online membership club that offers subscribers access to “celebrity fashion stylists” and pretty shoes for cheap. It’s kind of like Netflix, for footwear. Success: Exact numbers are difficult to find, but business seems to be good. Kardashian recently broadcast that the site hit the milestone of shipping
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In 2005, new college graduate Angela Carr and her slightly younger sister Christina Cummings found themselves buying the rights for a small, super-absorbent hair towel from Pittsburgh Plastics, a company that the sisters felt was vastly underutilizing the product, according to a story at Inc.com. The women renamed the hair towel the Turbie Twist and
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