Get Paid to Pee – EcoSan Toilets in Musiri (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you want fast cash in India, all you have to do is visit a public restroom.

While countries like Germany charge you to use public restrooms, a new campaign in a rural town in Southern India is actually…

Gesture Controled Phones – Samsung M3510

(TrendHunter.com) Samsung’s upcoming M3510 music-player mobile phone follows in the footsteps of Apple, Nokia and Sony Ericsson. The M3510 utilizes a built-in accelerometer that allows you to tilt and shake the phone in…

Superstar Honor – Kylie Minogue is Officer of the Order of the British Empire (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Australian Kylie Minogue has been awarded the honor of Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace’s ballroom.

After declaring that she is now an honorary Briton,…

Explosive Accessories – The Grenade Wristwatch (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It is believed in some quarters that wristwatches are in danger of becoming redundant and obsolete because everyone relies on the built-in clocks on cellphones. I didn’t subscribe to that. For a while,…

Fashionable Jock Straps – The BallBra & More (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Still buying your jocks at the local big box discounter? And you call yourself fashionable? International Jock feels that what you wear under your clothes is just as important to give guys that fully fashionable…

Ultra Modern Scrapbooks – Staycation Albums (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Planning a staycation this summer? Create a staycation scrapbook to cherish the memories! Who says you have to go somewhere exotic to justify taking photos of you and your buds having fun in the sun?

The…

Hot Women Washing Naked Men – The Axe Detailer Guy Wash

Well known for provocative advertising, Axe is taking a break from parading sexy women and putting the focus on the male body in its new ‘Guy Wash’ commercial for the Axe Detailer Shower Tool.

The video…

Modern Travel Lingo – The “Staycation”

(TrendHunter.com) The “Staycation” is a critical piece of modern lingo to pick up now that gas price are skyrocketing. Trend Hunter occasionally highlights some need-to know terms, and the staycation is a key piece of jargon…

Islamic High Fashion – Amal Al Ra’aes’ Collection (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Top designers from the Gulf were in Bahrain on Saturday July 5th to showcase the best of their work at a fashion show. Omani designer Amal Al Ra’aes was among the talents who displayed their creations…

Hot Women Washing Naked Men – The Axe Detailer Guy Wash (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Well known for provocative advertising, Axe is taking a break from parading sexy women and putting the focus on the male body in its new ‘Guy Wash’ commercial for the Axe Detailer Shower Tool.

The video…

Swapping Shirts with Strangers – Adidas: Ajax Shirt Viral

Adidas is trying their hand at viral advertising in hope of generating buzz around the unveiling of the new Adidas Ajax Amsterdam home shirt for the 2008-2009 season.

TBWA ad agency created this viral…

Hedonistic Eco Nightclubs (UPDATE) – Club4Climate

(TrendHunter.com) What the heck is an eco nightclub? Picture a business that rewards customers by waiving the cover charge for proving that they walked or rode their bike there. Picture an establishment that requires patrons…

Superstar Collaborations – Madonna Brings Britney Spears Back with Sticky & Sweet Tour (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Could the Queen of Pop be the one to save its troubled Princess? Britney Spears reportedly collaborated with Madonna on a video this past Sunday that will be broadcast on huge screens in her majesty’s…

Naked Pushups at Famous Landmarks – Patriotic Chinese TV Host Ou Zhihang (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A Chinese Television host from Guangdong TV by the name of Ou Zhihang does pushups completely naked near China’s National Stadium (the now famous “Bird’s Nest”), near the Beijing’s National Grand…

Swapping Shirts with Strangers – Adidas: Ajax Shirt Viral (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Adidas is trying their hand at viral advertising in hope of generating buzz around the unveiling of the new Adidas Ajax Amsterdam home shirt for the 2008-2009 season.

TBWA ad agency created this viral…

Create Email Newsletters with Mad Mimi

Cool tool alert: Mad Mimi, a rare example of the Web 2.0 techno-goodness put to productive use, is a recently launched tool for creating nicely looking email newsletters by dragging and dropping different design elements around the page. Subscription boxes for your site and usage stats are included. Sending to the first 100 subscribers is free. Not sure yet how well it handles multipart (HTML and text-only) messages, but I’ll report back after giving it a more thorough test drive. For similarly easy-made custom landing pages, I recommend Marketo.

Washington Post’s New Editor a WSJ Refugee


WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — The Washington Post today named former Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli as its executive editor, succeeding Leonard Downie Jr.

Ratings for Olympic Trials Trail ABC Repeats


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The five-ring sports circus that is the Olympic Games used to just play under the big top of network TV, with the late (and not just great, but superb) Jim McKay as ringmaster. Now the tents have popped up everywhere: Viewers will be able to watch NBC Universal's on NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Oxygen, Telemundo, NBC.com, VOD and mobile.

Web Metrics Show Obama Trounced McCain in May

No surprise here. If the presidential election were decided by online buzz, Sen. Barack Obama would win in a landslide. Nielsen Online reported today that Obama's campaign website garnered 1.7 million more hits than that of Sen. John McCain in May, the final month of the Democratic primary season.

Horoscope Handbags – Donna Karan Zodiac Collection (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Whether you’re into astrology or not, Donna Karan’s Zodiac bag collection has adorable designs any fashion connoisseur will appreciate. The handbags are named after different astrological signs, but that…