The HYT H1 Watch

The HYT H1 Watch uses its mechanical movement to operate a pair of bellows that keep the fluid moving, umm, fluidly around the capillary. Other features include a palladium grey dial, a small seconds wheel at 9:30, and small minutes dial at 12, a titanium case, a clear rear casing to allow for viewing of the movement and bellows system, and a leather strap. 
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Wood Castings pieces of furniture by Hilla Shamia

Presenting a striking combination never seen before, these wood-casted pieces of furniture were created by designer Hilla Shamia. These Wood Castings promise a constant visual of the merger between two splendid materials – wood and aluminum. The reaction between hot aluminum and burnt wood creates a clear boundary between the two elements, combining them into a raw stand-still moment.
This allows the “negative factor of burnt wood” to become a focal point with a deep visual impact. When using this technique of combining aluminum and wood, there is only so much control, the small details being left to natural forces. Melted aluminum invaded every crack it could find, intimately bonding with the burnt wood.

The original tree trunk keeps its shape, but it split between the elements composing the collection. A square silhouette gives off an artificial vibe, while protecting the material it is forever bound to.

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The Bugatti Wei Long Year of the Dragon Edition

The Bugatti Wei Long Year of the Dragon edition Grand Sport model was amongst the premium lot unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show, also carrying a premium price tag of $2.09 million (€1.58 million). However, the one shown at the event remains a one-off piece, making it yet another exclusive edition after the Visette series, L’o’Blanc Porcelain edition, and the ‘Sang Blanc’ version, which were all unique faces of this supercar.
Offering a 987 HP output power from the 8-liter W16 machine, the Grand Sport Year of the Dragon Bugatti can now declare far and wide, about an optimum speed of over 400 km/ph.

The reason this collector’s item got the attention at the event was the aesthetics, which the company redrafted the car in, with the collaboration of Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur. With porcelain being the new fabric of choice with the Bugatti designers, this special edition has been given the body of the same fabric in white color, whereas the interiors have been given a vibrant red coloring, but with special Dragon motifs all around. However, one will also notice the carmine red with the brake calipers of the 20-inch alloy wheels of the car.

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QLOCKTWO W watch

Biegert & Funk, the brand behind the clock QLOCKTWO, brings this cult item to a portable design with the QLOCKTWO W watch. The square 35mm watch is crafted of brushed stainless steel and features a single push button, which entirely operates the timekeeper allowing you to also display the calendar day or seconds in poetry.
Price Tag: $800
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The Jaffa Cakes edible elevator

The Jaffa Cakes edible elevator is installed in the communications company Engine’s offices in London, the lift is papered with lickable wallpaper. Studded with 1,325 Jaffa Cakes, employees can enjoy a sweet lick before heading to the office.
While the Jaffa Cakes edible elevator is full of whimsical fun, it does raise a blatant germ issue. Sure, flavored wallpaper is yummy in theory, but now that it has come to fruition some are skeptical about the health issues it could cause. 
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Hornet World Time Skeleton by Arnold & Son

Since 1764, Arnold & Son is an influential part of British watchmaking and the Hornet World Time Skeleton is their latest horological achievement. This highly limited timekeeper, 50 in number, definitely shows an incredible face with six rhodiated facetted hands, all driven by wheels with special split teeth to ensure play-free movement. Alongside 24 time zones on the outer ring and double-disc big date, the hands can show mean solar time, equation of time, numerous time zones, month. The caliber is a Rhodium-treated Swiss automatic Arnold & Son in-house caliber A1766 with a power reserve of 42 hours and 41 jewels.
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The Rolex Deepsea Challenge Watch

The Rolex Deepsea Challenge Watch, designed for James Cameron's Deepsea Challenger expedition, this unique timepiece features a super-thick body, a black bezel to contrast with the steel case, luminous hands and hour markers, and water resistance down to 12,000 meters, or nearly 40,000 feet.
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Shawish single large diamond ring

Geneva based jewelers Shawish a stunning 150-carat diamond ring that was cut and carved from one single large diamond.  They call it the world’s first “all-diamond ring.”  Price tag for this ring is $70 Million.
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The ‘Cypher’s Little Brother’ watch

The ‘Cypher’s Little Brother’ watch is sleek yet sly as it requires some knowledge to comprehend this intricate time piece. Unlike most watches with a big and little hand, the Cypher’s Little Brother watch concept uses its bold and mechanical-like designs to reveal the hours and minutes.
It’s a secret if you can’t read it. The hour hand is the big semi-circle and the one end in clockwise direction indicates the hour. The minute hand is the narrower bar but sometimes it’s masked by the hour hand; in that case, just add 30 minutes to the free end of the minute bar. The tiny triangles and dials surrounding the face can help.

Cypher’s Little Brother watch concept is a rendition from an initial watch called Cypher (hence, the name). Designed by Samuel Jerichow from Germany, this watch is made almost completely from matte black steel. There’s a colorful ring that lights up to give the sleek and dark watch some emphasis.
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Potato Rosemary Cupcakes with Irish Cheddar Frosting

To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day food blogger Stef, from the incomparable blog ‘Cupcake Project,’ decided to go the savoury route and whip up these Potato Rosemary Cupcakes with Irish Cheddar Frosting. By highlighting the Irish’s preoccupation with potatoes and impeccable cheeses, Stef has crafted a refreshing update on the usual clover-clad cupcakes.
The perfect accompaniment to a cold pint of kelly green beer, these Potato Rosemary Cupcakes are the perfect way to celebrate the Emerald Isle. A meal in and of itself, these savory cakes are a fun addition to your hum-drum dinner routine. Leaving the ostentatious green sparkles behind and forsaking all shamrocks, Stef has crafted what could be the least-garnished St. Patty’s Day cupcake ever.
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Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch

Pocket watches are more or less a novelty at this point, which makes the Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch ($170) all the more unusual. Sporting a relatively intricate yet easy-to-read dual time-zone face, the Rogue offers touch-based controls, an always-on display, date and time functionality, LED lighting, stainless steel case, an included chain, and a see-through cover that lets you easily keep track of the time without having to worry about accidental button pushes.
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Magellan’s ‘Magelluna’ Moon watch

Magellan watch’s Magulluna virtually puts the celestial entity on the wrist of the wearers, in what could be a tribute to it.
Featuring a 43.5mm diameter casing, the presentation comes as a simplistic unit created out of refined stainless steel. Unlike some of the bigger brands, there isn’t much use of novel and expensive fabrication, but instead uses a higher grade of the metal to make a watch, which will stand out purely on the finishing and craftsmanship involved. In a dome shaped, sapphire crystal covered dial, lies a black PVD coated, poke marked dial which has a garland of Roman numeral markings on the side which display the hours. In the centre is the most artistic part which we just mentioned, brings forward a very realistic miniature surface rendering of the moon. Even the polished minute and hours hands have been shaped uniquely to work along with round surfacing of the dial. The sharp but eye appealing contrast is the thin red seconds hand which works around the other 2 hands.
Under the hood, or rather the dial is the ETA 2892 movement which powers itself by a self-winding mechanism.
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Golden Spider Silk at the V&A Museum, London

An astonishing golden outfit made from the silk of spiders has gone on display at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum.
It took more than four years to make the four-metre-long hand-woven textile from the silk of 1.2million female golden orb spiders, native to Madagascar.
It was made by Englishman Simon Peers and American Nicholas Godley, both of whom have lived and worked in Madagascar for many years.

Spiders were collected every morning before silk is extracted from them by trained handlers. They were returned to the wild at the end of each day.
The process is extremely laborious – on average, 23,000 spiders are needed to create about 28 grams of silk, according to the museum.
The last known spider silk textile was made for an exhibition in Paris in 1900 but no examples remain.
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Konstantinos Chaykin Mystery Watch

Konstantin Chaykin ‘Mystery’ Watch goes on display at BaselWorld 2012, in the month of March. 
The Russian horological maestro includes new aesthetics and advanced mechanics in the Mystery watch, which will have its minutes and hours hands suspended on a transparent dial, apparently. Apart from the obvious unknown element of the design, the great finishing and aesthetics are a part of the packaging for this new creation.
With the Mystery watch, one can begin to draw lines on the fact that Chaykin has something for the moon and its movements. 
Featuring a gold case available in rose or white options, there is a transparent dial which features the hours and minute hands on a transparent base, which somehow also conceals the smaller tourbillon movement parts under the bezel, never the less giving the rather different appearance to the timepiece. The Roman numeral digits on the out ring indicate the hours, with the micro-markings in between meant for the minutes. Around the 3 ‘o’clock mark is the Konstantin Chaykin Branded moon phase indicator, which the Russian designer has successfully used even with the previous model.
The mystery seems to have been retained for watch until BaselWorld event in March this year. That’s when further details about the fabrication, pricing, and horological engineering will be revealed.
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The world’s largest cut emerald will auction

Owners of the world’s largest cut emerald – a 57,500-carat natural wonder – will auction off the gem later this month, and the bidding starts at $1 million.
The gem – called Teodora, or gift of God, in Portuguese – was mined in Brazil and sold to an Indian buyer, but little is known of the stone’s origins.
Teodora weighs 11.5 kilograms. It is actually the fifth largest emerald ever found but the biggest that’s been cut with facets.
The gem was never cut into smaller rocks for jewelry because it is opaque and not translucent. So the value resides in the fact it is so big.
The emerald will be sold at Western Star Auctions in Kelowna, British Columbia, on Jan. 28.
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Noir 50 by Sit

Noir 50 by Sit is like a literal interpretation of the comfortable Croc Clogs that have weaseled their way into the hearts of many. For all those animal rights activist out there, however, it has to be noted that these heels are not made out of real crocodiles, no matter how frighteningly realistic they look.
Created for the Hybrid Thinking exhibit currently being held at Jonahton Levine Gallery in New York, Noir 50 by Sit explores “the troubled relationship between mankind and the animal kingdom” and the concept “of instinct, identity and metamorphoses,” as put by the art gallery. 
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Hospitalis Restaurant

Hospitalis is a hospital-themed restaurant in Riga, Latvia. The entire restaurant was decked out to look as much like a hospital as possible.
The people behind Hospitalis went all out when they designed the restaurant. Patrons or “patients” ate on operating tables with scalpels and forceps. Dishes were designed to look like body parts and patrons could even have their meal fed to them by a sexy nurse provided they were willing to be bound in a straight jacket. 

The bizarre restaurant also featured a dentist and gynecologist-themed dining area. Hospitalis seems like a great idea, but unfortunately it was not up to code and was shut down by Latvian health inspectors.
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18,000,000 Twitter Followers for Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga has become the first person to reach 18 million followers on Twitter. This week she tweeted: “Can’t believe I have 18,000,000 TwitterMonsters, really rad, was just a few years ago I had barely any.”
Last year, the star became the first person to tally 10 million followers on Twitter. Gaga outranks Canadian pop star Justin Bieber by nearly two million fans, and American performer Katy Perry, who takes third with 13.9 million followers.
Gaga has more than 46 million followers on Facebook, and yesterday she announced her new Google+ page, with some 10,900 followers so far.
Her latest album “Born This Way”, released in May, reached No. 1 on album charts in 28 countries.
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Cement pearls earrings

These cement earrings are modeled on classic pearl studs. Cast by hand, each cement pearl is modeled after the classic single pear earrings. Set on a  sterling silver post the cement will gradually change colors as it is exposed to the open air and the wearers body chemistry. Innovative and fun currently available at Metsa.

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The Escoffiette Randwich

The Escoffiette Randwich Delivery service is perfect for people who like surprises. The term ‘Randwich,’ which happened to be coined by two employees at Etsy, is a combination of two words: random sandwich. It is basically a delivery service that provides surprise sandwiches. Since menus can be overwhelming and lunchtimes very short, Escoffiette Randwich Delivery takes the pressure off the customer.
Based in Brooklyn, Escoffiette Randwich Delivery services “anywhere accessible by the New York City subway system,” according to its site. Also, because it are a startup, it must take orders two days in advance and will only accept payment through Paypal and Venmo. Nevertheless, the possibility of getting a sandwich like its five-spice meatballs with lavender béchamel may just be worth all the trouble, especially since its goal “is to research winning flavor combinations.”
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