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Complete Skateboard

The complete skateboard concept is essentially "designed to make skateboarding feel more like surfing", with a huge leaf-spring mounted between it's long deck and the wheels. Video and pics after the jump.

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Driving Fashion: Acne Creates Clothing with Comfort and Style

By Christine Arnefors. August is filled with Scandinavian style first Copenhagen Fashion Week and then Stockholm Fashion Week. Instead of meeting new beautiful friends and influential bloggers at the runway shows, I’ve been hanging around with an old beige Mercedes in a dusty Swedish small town in the hopes of finally getting a driver’s license.

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Uno for the Road

Ben Gulak's Uno Cycle design features two wheels mounted side by side, very close together, and is powered by electric motors. A computerized control system keeps the vehicle balanced in a system similar to the Segway personal transporter.

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Justen Ladda’s Green Machine: 1969 Camaro

Artist Justen Ladda is a stickler for detail. His painstaking execution of detail and meticulous application of unusual material make for gorgeous sculpture, paintings and installations. His subjects are part of the natural environment, but that provoke contemplation from a unique perspective. A giant nose, a Swarovski bodice, a humanistic giraffe. Ladda's work is aesthetically rewarding and intellectually compelling.Ladda has parted ways with a prized creation that is part art car and part personal heirloom - his 1969 green Camaro.

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Ralph Gilles Leads Chrysler Design

Ralph Gilles is changing the way people look at contemporary car design -- and car designers. The rising star in the design community becomes Vice President Design for Chrysler September 1. The popular 38-year old designer first drew attention with his vision of the Chrysler 300C, a historic and memorable design that debuted in the 2005 model year.

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Keeping Up with the Kids: Y Water

hile I give props to my mom for enforcing those stipulations, new products offer the cool marketing tactics that help making the bribing process simpler. Y Water is such a product. The L.A. based company makes low-sugar, low-calorie mineral waters, but the hook is this -- ridiculously fly packaging.

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Chains With a Bite: Crunchy Jewels

There's a certain synergy in the continuity of a chain whether used on a bicycle or for more aesthetic purposes -- jewelry. After years of digging through chains, Julie Le is an expert.

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Get HVW8 Political Kicks

For activists looking for a sneaker with a message, the Political Minded Series for the Conscious Sole, a collaboration between the Heavy Weight Production House and Gravis, goes on sale this summer in select venues and worldwide this fall.

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Moveable Art: Chanel Mobile Art

We believe that motion is a medium for discussion. Apparently, we share these ideas with prominent figures. "Mobile art is all about movement and fluidity," says Pulitzer prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, who designed the international pavilion for the traveling art exhibition Chanel Mobile Art,which opens in Central Park in October.

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Flickr Finds: My First Car

Remember the first time you clasped the keys to your first car in your palm, that feeling of being complete and finally in charge or your own being -- FREEDOM. Your first stop was the spit n' shine car wash, the auto store for some key accessories, or straight to your best friend's house to show off your new ride and then to cruise the streets.

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