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When Soundtrack Collabos Get Weird

Blue-eyed blues-rock demigod Jack White and sexiest woman alive Alicia Keys (yeah, we said it—check the resume) might not exactly be musical peas in a pod, but they both possess ridiculous quantities of talent. And now they’re teaming up to pen and perform the theme song to November’s Quantum of Solace, the newest James Bond jammy.

It won’t be the first time that strange bedfellows have teamed up for a soundtrack. There have been surprising mash-ups in the past like Roni Size hooking up with Cypress Hill, and even a Fat Boys x Freddy Kruegar rap banger atrocity. With the Keys/White collabo on its way, we’ve rounded up some prime examples, arranged in order of increasing bizarreness. Dig in the crates with us after the jiddump, chiddumps.

James Bond Returns In Quantum of Solace

In true spy fashion, the trailer for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, secretly leaked today. Sony debuted the trailer online exclusively at AOL.com in the U.S. and MSN.com worldwide during a two-hour window from 9-11:00 AM, PDT. Although it was intended to be a limited viewing, tech-savvy 007 fans have managed to rip the trailer and keep it up.

Quantum of Solace picks up where Casino Royale left off, and appears to maintain that groundbreaking Bond film’s dark, gritty quality. Daniel Craig returns as 007 with new Bond babes Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton, both of whom should report immediately to the Complex offices for a private meeting with Agent 0069. See the trailer after the jump.

Q-Tires Would Do James Bond Proud

When Bond needed his Aston Martin Vanquish to stop dead on ice in Die Another Day, he simply flipped a “traction” switch and spikes came out of his tires to give him the help he needed. With this in mind, South Carolina-based Q-Tires has developed a new model called “Celsius” that actually features retractable studs.

Snow tires beware: with the all-purpose Celsius, all the driver needs to do when the weather gets icy is flip a switch in their car, which fills a secondary chamber within the tire, activating the studs. Flipping the switch again releases the pressure retracts the studs. After the jump, watch the infamous Bond car chase and a movie from Q-Tires that explains the science.

The Lazy Man’s Wine Bottle

Wine-drinking etiquette rule #1: do not pop the cork and immediately start chugging out the bottle. We know the urge is strong, but society’s pesky “rules” require that we use containers (sometimes called “glasses”) to drink wine out of. For those dire times when you need a splash of that white and there isn’t a stemless flute in sight, designer Viktor Pucsek has crafted an innovative wine bottle concept called Vinho Verde for the PapaMama Design Competition. The bottle’s label is actually two foldable paper cups that can be slid out and used in a pinch. See the magic for yourself after the jump.