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THE BAND-AID LIMITED EDITION CONVERSE X DR ROMANELLI

These custom Chuck Taylor kicks are officially bananas! As this year marks the 100th anniversary of Converse, they commissioned 100 of the world's most creative minds to each design a special sneaker. Each shoe expresses the respective artist's unique commentary on HIV/AIDS and how it affects everyone. Created as part of the 1HUND(RED) humanitarian campaign, what makes these so appropo is the use of the band-aid as a metaphor for healing. Props to multimedia artist Darren Romanelli a.k.a. DRx for this great design! (195.00 €)
Cop them at: www.wesoldout.com
 

A NEW SEXY TWIST ON D/A DIGITAL CLOCK BY ALVIN ARONSON

RISD student/designer and soon to be graduate Alvin Aronson has come up with a clean and fresh new design for the digital clock. Aronson desceibes d/a clock as "An object that plays on the common LED-display digital clock with physical segments that slowly fade in and out of a white surface. The D/A Clock introduces new characteristics to the digital mediation of time: a physical dimension and intermediate states – the time between 0 and 1."

Check out a video of the clock in action.

(Source: www.neublack.com)

iPOD + iTUNES AD + MI SWING ES TROPICAL

Apple does it again. Steve Jobs never ceases to amaze us, this time with the Latin tinge flavor of Nickodemus & Quantic feat. Tempo. Pa'lante mi hermano!

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE IPHONE

Apple Inc's Phil Schiller shows John Blackstone the many features of the iPhone. Apple's latest product will go on sale this June. 

MONKEY MAGIC: THE FUTURE OF FASHION

Why would an Italian luxury brand team up with Japanese 'street' label A Bathing Ape? Because, says Susie Rushton, this mix of the urban and the über-luxe is the future of fashion. Source: www.news.independent.co.uk

For the global launch of what Fendi hopes will be the cult bag of 2007, the company decided to try out a new marketing approach. It chose Tokyo as the location and, instead of simply recreating its European ready-to-wear catwalk show in Japan as a way to create local buzz - as Chanel and Louis Vuitton have done in recent seasons - Fendi threw a hip-hop party. The event, staged in a purpose-built yellow marquee in the middle of the 1964 Olympic Stadium, targeted the hard-to-impress Tokyo fashion insiders. Headlining the night, Kanye West flew in to play a set for the crowd of 700. And who played host at the party? Neither Silvia Venturini Fendi nor Karl Lagerfeld - but Nigo, the 34-year-old entrepreneur behind A Bathing Ape, who has become a close friend of Venturini Fendi and the company CEO Michael Burke.

For the rest of this story visit: www.news.independent.co.uk

APPLE DEBUT'S IPHONE AT MACWORLD

So Señor Jobs at today's Macworld conference, dropped the iPhone bomb heard around the world...and the shit is mad sexy!

As if that we're not enough news to steal the thunder from the hundreds of technology companies hawking their new wares at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, he also hit them with Apple TV...he's like the Clive Davis of the technology world...nothing but hits baby, nothing but hits. For those who have yet to catch a glimpse of this splendid looking swiss army knife...without further ado, here is a preview of the iPhone...

Introduction
iPhone is a widescreen iPod with touch controls that lets you enjoy all your content — including music, audiobooks, videos, TV shows, and movies — on a beautiful 3.5-inch widescreen display. It also lets you sync your content from the iTunes library on your PC or Mac. And then you can access it all with just the touch of a finger.

Scroll through your songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. Watch TV shows and movies from the iTunes Store on a pocketable device. Just tap the touch controls for play/pause, chapter forward/backward, and volume.

GUARANÁ POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Guaraná Power is an energy soft drink produced by farmers in the Brazilian Amazon in collaboration with the Danish art group Superflex.
Superflex's Guaraná Power reflects a new kind of intellectual property activism. It stands alongside projects such as the Creative Commons, the Public Library of Science, iBiblio, and the open source movement in seeking to broaden the constituencies served by intellectual property.
The energy boosting soft drink is now being served at a variety of bars and cafés in Denmark, where Superflex is also running the 'Guaraná Power Mobile Bar' which is host to a continuing discussion of the aspects of intellectual property rights. The activities in the bar vary from music events and film screenings to presentations and parties.