Sweat Shop cafe in Paris is a sewing fanatic and coffee lover's fantasy come true. Here you can rent sewing machines and chat over a latte while you design and spin your heart's desire.

Opened by Martena Duss and Sissi Holleis, a Swiss makeup artist and an Austrian fashion designer, the pair wanted to create a friendly place in which budding seamstresses and young designers could practice their art while mingling with like-minded individuals. How it works is you can borrow a Singer sewing machine at 6 euros an hour and work away.

Kind of makes me wish I could sew.

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I'm often amazed at the ingenuity and creative spirit that some people are just blessed and borne with. Like the M-Dress (Mobile Phone Dress) created by CuteCircuit. To be honest, I don't see the need for a dress to be able to pick up my phone calls, but it's the idea behind it that I appreciate. I would never in a million years think to integrate a dress and a phone together. I mean, who would ever need a dress that's also a mobile phone? According to the CuteCircuit site, "The M-Dress (Mobile Phone Dress) was designed after [their] research showed that very often phone calls are missed because mobile phones are quite awkward to carry, especially for women, that have garments with small or no pockets. To allow women to stay connected while remaining stylish, CuteCircuit designed the M- Dress. A mobile phone in its own right but built out of soft circuitry."

How it works is apparently quite simple: the wearer puts their SIM card in the slot underneath the clothing label and the dress/phone is ready to be used. Your phone number will stay the same. Whenever the dress rings, all you need to do is raise your hand to your ear, which will allow the sensor to take the call. And when you're finished talking, just put your hand down. Sounds easy enough, right?

I'm very curious to see if this trend will catch on. What do you think?

 
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The sleek silk jersey M-Dress is set to be released in 2011.

When you were a little girl, did you love mood rings that changed colors with your moods like I did? Of course after a while, I figured out you could change the colors of the rings just by breathing hot air from your mouth on it, so it lost some of its charm, but I still liked to pretend it worked.

In The Mood polish has created mood-changing nail polish that changes colors based on your body temperature or your surroundings and they're being sold for $8 a pop.

Bring out your inner kid again and get the polish here.