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Microtrends: 2,000-watt society

Every human being on Earth uses an average 2,000 watts of energy, constantly

Microtrends: Car tattoos

With Infectious, you can cover your car in custom-made manga art

Microtrends: Atheists’ nightmares

Atheists’ nightmares

Microtrends: Finger Dancing

Why everyone from random YouTubers to Kanye West is finger dancing

Microtrends: Steampunk

Steampunk is a transatlantic fashion that involves dressing like the hero from a Jules Verne novel

Microtrends: Shipping containers

Microtrends: Shakeface

Take a picture of yourself shaking your face around. Put it on the net. E-mail to chums. The end

Microtrends: Gary Vaynerchuk

He's the Jeremy Clarkson of wine, and he licks rocks

Microtrends: Extreme mechanical watches

Got £215,000? You could get yourself a wind-up digital watch

Microtrends: Ghost Bikes

Ghost Bikes are mysterious white-painted memorials to cyclists killed on the roads all over the world.

Microtrends: Bristlebots

Want to build your own robot? Join the DIY robot movement that’s less Robot Wars, more insect bots made from old Walkman motors

Microtrends: Hyperediting

Crazed fans with computers are editing films (or entire tv series) into bite-sized chunks

Microtrends: Online mixtapes

The return of the mixtape

Microtrends: Real-life superheroes

Worried that the world is going to hell? Why not slip on a pair of tights and a mask and do something about it?

Microtrends: 826 National

Author Dave Eggers has a chain of bizarre shops across America

Microtrends: Esoteric Pornography

The internet is obviously full of pornography, and it's getting stranger and stranger all the time.

Microtrends: Chris Anderson and Free-conomics

In the future, almost everything will be free, says a bestselling author

Microtrends: 3-D films

Microtrends: Gangsta spray tans

Microtrends: canned food

Tasty treats to be found on the web