(TrendHunter.com) As an act of defiance and rebelliousness against the current trend towards minimalistic high tech gadgets, designers Ingo Strobel and Katja Hiendlmayer have come up with this ironic one-off iPod Island Hub art installation. The minimalism trend is best exemplified by Apple and its products, so it wa…
(TrendHunter.com) This super gallery showcases the cutting edge of graffiti, including remote controlled graffiti robots, graffiti chocolate bars, LED graffiti throwies and cleanvertising.
Graffiti and counter-culture art have always represented the cutting edge of cool, but modern advances are taking graffiti to …
francois roche – interview with the french architect
he founded R&Sie(n) architecture studio in 1989 along with stephanie lavaux and jean navarro. roche continues to lead the paris based studio which regularly changes its name every few years.
Face scans for air passengers to begin in UK this summer
Airline passengers are to be screened with facial recognition technology rather than checks by passport officers, in an attempt to improve security and ease congestion, the Guardian can reveal.
Globalization is one thing that most international companies invest in today and it is an aggressive practice in the local shores of India. Large names that include Coca Cola and McDonalds have adopted the new termed practice called Glocalisation, a saleable mix of the global and the local, which represents the human capacity to bridge scales from the local to global and vice versa.
Product association is evident in our local regions and for international companies known throughout the world, the need to rev up the consumer awareness has become a critical need. India has so far acknowledged this need and companies who have intended to join in this Glocalisation practice are jumping in one by one.
“Advertising agencies in our country are increasingly going in for international tie-ups. As a result, foreign brands are suddenly seeking local attention. The art of making an advertisement look local and endearing to Indians is the global spin-off in advertising,” Vipin Dhayani, creative head of the Everest Brand Solutions, said.
(TrendHunter.com) E-paper technology has been tantalizing our minds and imaginations with each new, fascinating development that crops up. Lunar Design created the Lunar BLU which is a concept jacket that uses flexible organic E-paper that can show other people your mood, subway maps (as the picture shows) and even v…
(TrendHunter.com) VEIL is a shimmering curtain comprised of 1440 1440 Swarovski crystals. It was created by Paul Cocksedge for the Swarovski Crystal Palace in Milan.
The four meter high curtain appears to transforms when you see its reflection in a mirror as it creates a fantastic optical illusion of da Vinci’s Mon…
(TrendHunter.com) Ever typed your name into Google and found out how many people you shared your name with? Jim Kileen, the director of the movie Google Me did exactly that when he Googled his name and decided to meet the other Jim Kileens.
His trip took him around the US, Australia, Ireland and Scotland. What the …
(TrendHunter.com) Soaking under the lights on the world’s first LED spa capsule is even better than bathing in the glow of a rainbow sounds. The LED pods, known as Oxy-LED Light Spa Capsules, are designed for weight loss.
These innovative capsules are part of a new health, fitness and beauty treatment being offered…
(TrendHunter.com) Dubbed as the first six-wheeled supercar, the Covini C6W is a wheel-lover’s dream. Designed and made by Covini Engineering, this vehicle boasts 400 horsepower and 4-wheel steering – increasing the braking, comfort and directional stability. Covini Engineering has also had a hand in the design and ma…
Trading cards have always had a strong following in professional sports leagues. Animated TV shows and collectible card game companies have long since produced trading cards as well. Considering the success of all those, how about applying the same concept in the white-collar business world?
(TrendHunter.com) 1,500 students in Belgium dressed in matching ponchos to participate in a competition to break a new world record, and they succeeded! They made it into the Guiness World Records for the most Mentos and Coke explosions.
This is one of those Guinness record things which involve a whole bunch of peo…
(TrendHunter.com) The last aquarium desk we featured, the Milk, was neat, but it was only big enough to house one goldfish. The Azoo Eco-Desk Lifestyle Aquarium, however, is big enough for an entire school of tropical fish.
Better than simply being a mini aqua park below your work surface, the Azoo also takes care o…
(TrendHunter.com) Trading cards have always had a strong following in professional sports leagues. Animated TV shows and collectible card game companies have long since produced trading cards as well. Considering the success of all those, how about applying the same concept in the white-collar business world?
(TrendHunter.com) James Buck, an American student studying the new leftists and the blogosphere in Egypt for his Master thesis was arrested when watching riots in Mahalla, Egypt on April 10th. Just after his arrest, he managed to tweet “Arrested” which alerted his friends and followers of the situation.
(TrendHunter.com) Milk Gone Bad is a collection of eight unique lamps that float somewhere between toys and furniture. The lamps are disguised as milk cartons. When the lamp is turned off, it looks like a plain white milk carton, but once you turn it on, the lamp comes to life, displaying an exciting and startling im…
(TrendHunter.com) Samsung is coming out with a tiny MP3 model it has dubbed the S2 Pebble. The simple little gadget is only about 2 inches long and has no display interface.
The S2 Pebble relies on an LED embedded underneath to provide navigation in the form of flashes. It glows various colors that identify the cur…
(TrendHunter.com) Trendinista follows her excellent fish-inspired fashion post with a superb study of Diana Bobar’s Spring’08 ready-to-wear collection. This time, inspiration seems to come from the endangered Wild Cyclamen, a tubular Mediterranean flower with breezy, spiral petals.
News media giant CNN launched a website selling T-shirts of your news headlines. T-shirts with headlines such as “Pelosi says no to combined ticket”, “Prank promotes sex, booze after prom” and “Deadly snake found slithering on beach” can be ordered from the online store.
(TrendHunter.com) This very unique Porta-Party iPod was spotted at an art exhibit in Los Angeles. No, it is not an art installation, but an exclusive, fully-functioning portable toilet. I refer to it as exclusive because reportedly only those with an iPod or iPhone could make the toilet work. I don’t know exactly how…
This creative TV spot for the Mercedes C and E-Class uses ghosts to depict how the stellar innovations of the past meet the incredible vehicles of today. The Ghosts of an Illustrious Past ad uses ghostly imagery that is more entrancing than spooky; you can’t help but look.
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