Waris Tears Pins

Jewelry designer and sometime actor Waris teamed up with French label A.P.C to create these Waris Tear Pins. Part of a new line he designed for the brand inspired by "love and heartbreak" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird," the all-silver pins make understated accessories and are an unconventional gift. They come two to a set for $77 from A.P.C.'s site.

The Chromachron

In 1971, Tian Harlan, architect, engineer and artist, developed the communication system "Chromachron" (Chroma=Color and Chronos=Time) that, as was his hope, visualizes time with less rigidity. A rotating disk with a pie-shaped cutout revolves over a colored time zone (each color represents an hour) to approximate time, gauging rotation by fluid motion without demarcation of minutes or seconds. Pieter Doensen describes the Chromachron in his …

Evolver Tee

The latest Go Ape tee to arrest our attention was the Evolver design: a Beatle-esque pencil drawing of apes a lá the frequently ripped-off jacket artwork on the 1966 classic LP. There are other gems here: "Elliot's New Friend"—a classic Stephen Spielberg spoof featuring BMX bicycle's silhouette cascading over a full moon with Ridley Scott's "Alien" in the front basket. Sick. (Yet funny.) For the …