If you take your shiraz or pinot noir seriously you won’t need us to tell you that red wine needs to breathe to be at it’s best.  Allowing the wine to react with the air before you drink it enhances the flavours and makes for a smoother finish.  In the past this has meant uncorking and/or decanting the bottle and leaving it for hours, or at least spinning your glass around frantically in the manner of Oz Clarke.

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Boys toys retailers I Want One Of Those are giving away an iPhone 3GS every week for 10 week in their “Things We Didn’t Know” competition.  To celebrate the launch of their iPhone app of the same name, IWOOT are asking you to become a fan on their Facebook page, and leave a message telling them something they didn’t know.

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According to the marketing blurb, you are looking at the “world’s thinnest and lightest 16″ laptop” – and whether that’s true or not it is a very stylish looking machine.

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If you feel the need to carry a miniature ninja sword around with you at all times then you probably have more to worry about than the cost of this Ninja Kunai USB flash drive, but at £80 for 2GB you may still have to think twice.

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Can’t afford a Tag Heuer?  Well it just got slightly easier.  This is the new Formula 1 Grande Date – as seen on the wrist of Lewis Hamilton no less – and you don’t need to drive for McLaren to be able to afford one.

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In retrospect, it might have been a bit of a stretch for Sony to claim that these motion activated headphones would change the way you listen to music forever, but you can’t argue that motion controlled earbuds are an intriguing idea.

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OK, so it’s looking increasingly like barbecue season is behind us, but this condiment gun might be a wise investment for next year’s meat parties.
Just load up your favourite sauces in the supplied cartridges, stick them in the gun and make that burger wish it picked on someone else…

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McLaren have unveiled what they are calling an “F1 car for the road” – the 240mph MP4-12C.  Drawing on their heritage in Formula 1, McLaren claim to have employed technical innovations usually only found in racing cars, while using adaptable suspension technology to make it usable day-to-day.

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The Magnetter is a wall-mounted letter and key holder from design company Umbra.  It uses magnets under the wooden surface to hold bunches of keys in easily-grabbable style.

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We love Threadless here at mantrends – but if you haven’t heard about them here’s the idea: people create shirt designs and upload them to the site.  Other people rate those designs, and the highest rated get made and sold.  The designer gets paid and gets to see their work being worn.  The buyer gets a pretty unique shirt (often the runs are quite limited) and a warm fuzzy feeling.

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