New obsessions of 2014

From tiny elastic bands and the latest high-tech gadgets to debates, celebrities and a certain quadrennial football tournament, we present to you the biggest obsessions of 2014. By obsessions, we mean either new things that excited us or more longstanding trends that recorded a sudden spike in interest this year. The top 10 was composed by analysing Yahoo Search queries over the year on Yahoo UK and Ireland. Here’s the countdown from ten to one...