Tamagotchi Life Clocks – The Jinsei Tokei Alarm (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Jinsei Tokei or Life Clock is an alarm clock that contains an animated avatar inside that mimics your real-life events in Tamagotchi-like fashion.

There are three character options: a schoolgirl,…

Spooky Bento Boxes – 10 Halloween-Inspired Mini Meals (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A bento is a meal that is served in a box. Traditionally, bento boxes contain either tiny compartments or individual components, each with its own simple lunch item. Today, however, just about anything…

Online Menstrual Cycle Planners – Mon.thly.info (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Why does Mother Nature control our lives? Because she is quietly involved in the things we do and the way we do them. Busy little glands change as little girls grow up, and these glands become raging little…

USB Floppy Disks – Reinvented Retro Gadgets (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Do you remember the floppy disks that used to be the haven of important data before? These days, it’s hard to see them being used anymore simply because of their relatively low storage capacity compared…

Safety Pin Gowns – Versace Dress Voted the All-Time Best (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who could possibly forget the figure-hugging Versace dress Elizabeth Hurley wore to the 1994 premiere of ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’? The gown, dangerously held together with safety pins, revealed Elizabeth…

Crying Calligraphy – Writing with Sprayed Tears

(TrendHunter.com) A Chinese artist named Ru Anting recently demonstrated his unusual talent for making calligraphy art by spraying his own tears onto a board covered with red paper. First he sucks up water through his nose…

Cloned Mobile Playlists for Couples – The Twinned MP3 Player (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This Twinned MP3 player is ideal for anyone who has someone special with whom they share everything. Designed by Liberty Fearns, the Twinned MP3 player is made up of two identical MP3 players that can…

Music Inspired By Financial Crisis – Credit Crunch Creativity (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The only nice thing I can say about this song is that at least this artist, who goes by Antndebt, has found a way to make light of global economic failure. The song is so bad that it makes my toes curl,…

South African Eco-Cars – The Joule Shines at Paris Auto Show (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Electricity is still clearly charging the automotive world. At the Paris Auto Show, the Joule has been stealing all the press coverage–and for the right reason.

The Joule is a six-passenger electric…

Naughty Fantasy Sports – Lingerie Football Leagues (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot undie-clad women’s football teams are cropping up everywhere and men are rejoicing as there is now an official LFL League (Lingerie Football League) which includes ten women’s groups from across the…

Ankle-Breaking Apparel – 9 Disaster-Inducing Designs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has done several features on eccentric high-heeled shoes that are killer, mean-looking and just plain dangerous. The batch of footwear we bring you today features a wide range of very eclectic…

24 Percussion Designs – Perfect for Keeping Travis Barker Busy (CLUSTER)

(TrendHunter.com) We’re hoping these 24 percussion-inspired designs will help Travis Barker fans get their drum fix as he recovers at Los Angeles’ Grossman Burn Center. They range from wearable tee shirt drum kits to exploding…

BBH launches ready-meal range and rape alarm

LONDON – Zag, Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s brand invention unit, has launched two products into the UK market.

Scorpion-Shaped Guitars – 10 Artistic Axes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you are bored with your regular, standard-looking guitar, you may enjoy this array of bizarre and unusual instruments assembled by Humoric.com as part of its collection of unorthodox guitars.

The…

Unusual Bacon Culinary Innovations – Bizarre Repurposed Pork (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I really don’t get why bacon is the meat that everyone loves, with inedible iterations modeled after bacon like clothes, furniture, tattoos, soap, hats, and scarves. Prosciutto di Parma aged ham doesn’t…

42 Shopping and Mall Trends

The way we shop has been completely revolutionized. We are spending more time and money making purchases online than ever before. Web-based boutiques have given us access to buying options that in the…

Super-Sized Novelty Gadgets – The WowPod (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Russian artists Aristarkh Chernyshev and Alexei Shulgin have designed a super-sized iPod that they’ve called the wowPod. To add to the novelty quotient, the giant iPod also comes with super-sized earphones.…

George Parker Gets Quotable On DraftFCB

Our friend George Parker has been quite vociferous in his criticism of DraftFCB. And while an unnamed “search consultant” offers a few anonymous quotes, Parker is the go-to man in an AdAge article about the shop:

Pointing to odd decisions DraftFCB has made — such as a somewhat tawdry self-promotional ad that showed two Cannes lions humping — George Parker, who writes the AdScam blog, said the agency brings the criticism on itself. “These self-promotional videos they put out just toot their own horn talking about how this was the agency of the future and this is the way advertising is going. And if you look two years down the road, it didn’t happen,” said Mr. Parker. “If I was going to give them one piece of advice, it would be: Shut the fuck up for a year until you have something really conclusive and provable to shout about. And then, a year later, come back and say, ‘See, we made it work.’ Or the odds are that they wouldn’t. Draft justifies about 80% of the criticism they receive because they have gone out of their way to stick their neck out and make dumb statements and claims and then within weeks or months they have been proved wrong.”

Cheers, George. That’s a good ‘un.

Sushi Costumes – 10 Inedible Baby and Pet Outfits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Everyone loves a bit of sushi. In this gallery, dogs, babies and students all get in on the sushi costume concept. All of these costumes are just brilliantly crazy. Even when they are bad, they still pull…

42 Shopping and Mall Trends (CLUSTER)

(TrendHunter.com) The way we shop has been completely revolutionized. We are spending more time and money making purchases online than ever before. Web-based boutiques have given us access to buying options that in the…