Plastic Dolls for Awareness – Anti-Genital Mutilation Camapaign

We’ve featured a number of posts on Fake Love about people who seek romantic companionship from plastic dolls. We’ve also featured several controversial ads that promote awareness for genital mutilation, but never have we had an article that covers both topics.

These ads are for the Association of…

Weather Station Bracelets – Oregon Scientific Weather Watch

(TrendHunter.com) These days, it’s rare you watch the news to catch the weather forecast, likely a quick Google search gets you your weather predictions. However, it could get even easier and a whole lot more accurate thanks to the world’s first wrist-worn weather station.

The bracelet gizmo, Oregon Scientific’s We…

Utensil Dart Boards – Thout UtiliTile

(TrendHunter.com) The THOUT UtiliTILE is a storage unit for your utensils. Instead of storing your spoons, folks and knives in a drawer, you can hurl them as you would a dart or a knife into this mounted tile on your wall.

“Ideal for small-space living, UtiliTILE: Dining is a series of simple-to-mount yet elegant l…

Cartoon Thumb Fitness – Vinaphone Text Campaign

I have to admit I was a little disappointed when I saw that these were exercising thumbs and not hyperactive cartoon bananas. The fact that these are thumbs though is a crucial part of the campaign’s message.

The three-part ad campaign for Vinaphone is meant to promote its ultra-cheap text messagi…

Top 8 Axe/Lynx Ads + Lynx Effect (SUPER GALLERY)

Lynx, known also as Axe, has earned itself quite a reputation for creating controversial ads. For the most part, they’re debated for having some pretty naughty content. They’re always on the verge of crossing the line to the inappropriate, but thus-far, the brand has managed to keep them entertainin…

Eco Chic Luxury Fashion – Loup Charmant’s PURE Collection (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Loup Charmant (which means the charming wolf) is an organic sustainable and fairly made women’s lounge line of only grown fibers. Locally made in brooklyn, new york by designer kee edwards, it uses no synthetics and no toxins. Loup Charmant’s latest PURE Collection is presented at the Project Earth…

Car Ghosts – Mercedes Ghosts of an Illustrious Past Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) 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.

The ad mentions Mercedes…

Geeky & Socially Aware Fashion – Alphanumeric Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Wear your geekiness loud and proud with the new summer 2008 collection from Alphanumeric.

The centerpiece of the collection is a bold design with a retro Casio watch graphics all over the T-shirt.

Other designs carry on with Alphanumeric’s theme of promoting social, educational and environmental …

Plastic Dolls for Awareness – Anti-Genital Mutilation Camapaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve featured a number of posts on Fake Love about people who seek romantic companionship from plastic dolls. We’ve also featured several controversial ads that promote awareness for genital mutilation, but never have we had an article that covers both topics.

These ads are for the Association of…

Cartoon Thumb Fitness – Vinaphone Text Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I have to admit I was a little disappointed when I saw that these were exercising thumbs and not hyperactive cartoon bananas. The fact that these are thumbs though is a crucial part of the campaign’s message.

The three-part ad campaign for Vinaphone is meant to promote its ultra-cheap text messagi…

Online Dating Beauty Upgrades – Neu.de Campaign

What if I told you you that you can have your girlfriend’s breasts easily enlarged without surgery? Nice, huh? And you girls can have your boyfriend lose weight within 5 days, and get his lost hair back as well!

Well, that’s what the new ad campaign for neu.de, a german dating site, promises you. …

BeanBag Chairs from Recycled Cars – Waste Furniture (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I always find it very disheartening that recycled products are mostly pretty expensive. Usually you have to pay a premium to go “green”, which both discourages and confuses me. Utilizing recycled materials should make the product cheaper not more expensive.

Take these giant bean bags by Spanish com…

Stop-Motion Human Snake – Nokia N-Gage Ad Uses 1000 People

What happens when life imitates computer games? The Human Snake happens! The stop-motion video is actually a viral ad for the Nokia N-Gage campaign.

Despite it being an ad, the Human Snake video is so well done, it’s a welcome addition to Trend Hunter’s collection of stop-motion videos, some of wh…

Recycled Seatbelt Designs – Lounge Chair Saves Life

(TrendHunter.com) The Seatbelt lounge chair combines two life savers: seatbelts that save human lives, and product recycling which saves our planet.

The chair is designed by Nuttapong Charoenkitivarakorn and created by Thai villagers who loop lengths of recycled cotton-nylon seat belts around the chairs’ plywood fra…

GPS Tourism For Lost Landmarks – Mauerguide For Fallen Berlin Wall

(TrendHunter.com) The remainder of the Berlin Wall is a huge tourist landmark, but the problem was finding it, even with maps, as the wall isn’t there anymore. Now with the help of a hand-sized touchscreen multimedia device with GPS, tourists can see a colorful map and a barrier line where the once 130-mile wall was …

Online Dating Beauty Upgrades – Neu.de Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What if I told you you that you can have your girlfriend’s breasts easily enlarged without surgery? Nice, huh? And you girls can have your boyfriend lose weight within 5 days, and get his lost hair back as well!

Well, that’s what the new ad campaign for neu.de, a german dating site, promises you. …

Facebook Goes Green – Greenbook Application

(TrendHunter.com) Facebook has launched its Greenbook application to help reduce CO2 emissions emitted by its servers and millions of worldwide users.

Basically what the Greenbook add-on does is generate money through sponsorship. The money collected through these sponsorships are then used to fund emission reducin…

Expandable Furniture – Cube 6 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Naho Matsuno has designed a classic piece of furniture called the Cube 6 made of birch plywood and maple. The cube unfolds into six tiny stools that would be ideal when you have a small group of friends pop by one morning and all of them start whining that they want to sit down.

The piece…

Stop-Motion Human Snake – Nokia N-Gage Ad Uses 1000 People (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) What happens when life imitates computer games? The Human Snake happens! The stop-motion video is actually a viral ad for the Nokia N-Gage campaign.

Despite it being an ad, the Human Snake video is so well done, it’s a welcome addition to Trend Hunter’s collection of stop-motion videos, some of wh…

Bubble Butt Undies (UPDATE) – The Flashback for Men (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Our lovely Bianca introduced us a couple of weeks ago to the wonder that is Padded Underwear for Men. However the ad campaign and product were not exactly hip or technologically advanced.

Now, Andrew Christian, one of the hippest rising underwear brands, unleashes Flashback with Butt-Lifting and …