Self-Making Beds – Selfy the EasyBed

(TrendHunter.com) The alarm clock goes off. You roll out of bed and stumble into the bathroom to brush your teeth. As you walk back into the bedroom, you stop and stare. Something isn’t quite right. Something is different. MY BED! IT’S MADE! Oh yeah, I forgot I bought one of those self-making beds designed by Enrico …

Fart Clock – Who Did It?

(TrendHunter.com) The Who Did It? wall clock is just hilarious.

The clock farts every hour on the hour, but only when the lights are on. So if you hear a farting noise at night, it’s not the clock!

The Who Did It? clock sells for $30.

Banning Lady Boys – Thai Men Must Keep Balls

(TrendHunter.com) Acceptance of the “third sex” in Thailand just took a hit from the health officials. Hospitals and clinics are prevented from removing the family jewels to make “ladyboys” or “katoey.” Many docs are doing the surgery outside of formal sex-change operations because its quick and easy. Some clinics ch…

Pen Spinning Tournaments – 16 Year Old Japanese Champion (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Almost every hobby has the potential to become a tournament these days, and the pen spinning tournament is the latest addition.

I’ve known how to do this neat little parlor trick since high school. We picked it up from the ROTC kids, and soon everyone with deft enough digits was doing it in class. …

Pole Dancer Alarm Clocks – Wake Me Up Before You Strip

(TrendHunter.com) Instead of spending your money at strip clubs, the £20 Pole Dancer Alarm Clock will give you a show each morning.

It is guaranteed to get you up (in more than just one way) to a seedy looking strip joint with a disco ball and bad lighting and music.

What better way to start our mornings?

Marketing Milk – Got Milk? Goes for (White) Gold

(TrendHunter.com) Spare a thought for plain old milk. When you’re competing with the multi-squillion dollar budgets and cultural ‘cool’ clout of the razzle dazzle marketing of the likes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, being a fuddy-duddy, unbranded, terminally uncool beverage is tough. Really tough. And marketing the s…

Skin Conditions as Art – Dermatographia Canvas (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This young woman has a rare skin condition known as dermatographia. This is an immune system skin hypersensitivity that releases histamine which is the chemical (neuro-transmitter) your body produces when you’re having an allergic reaction. High levels of histamine cause this woman’s blood vessels t…

Recycled Keyboard Purse – Keybag by Joao Sabino (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you are someone – or know someone – who spends their life at a keyboard, you will appreciate this Keybag designed by Joao Sabino of Portugal. Yes those are actual keys on a usable handbag. Joao draws his inspiration from life and collaborates with Mario Belem.

Sensual Foodvertising – PETA Rude Food PSA (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) PETA’s been known to produce some pretty sexy ads. For the Rude Food PSA, they’ve steered away nude celebrities (who would rather go naked than wear fur) and instead used some very hot, steamy imagery without so much a glimpse of a person.

The video show that even fruits and vegetables can turned i…

Jello Scapes – Architects for Aid (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Normally architects don’t like to deal with the jiggle factor when designing a structure. But when your raw material jelly, it is a prerequisite. Bompas & Parr are running a jelly design competition as part of this summer’s London Festival of Architecture. The resulting molds and preparatory materia…

Web Cams in Funeral Homes – Pay Per View Last Rites (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Pay-per-view funerals will start in Britain soon. If you can’t make the services, for a fee, you can log on and mourn. Wesley Music will offer the service to funeral parlors around the country for a one time payment of $150 for access to a funeral webcast. If the eulogy is half as good as John Clees…

Ultimate Fighting for Kids (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Ultimate Fighting or Cage Fighting has become increasing popular in the US with CBS becoming the first of the mainstream networks to broadcast it during prime time. Now kids are facing-off, punching and kicking, in the cage with their parent’s blessing.

Videos of kids as young as six fighting ea…

Inflatable Architecutre – Blow-Up Concrete Building

(TrendHunter.com) Researchers at Kassel University are exploring a new type of building material that involves inflating a flexible skin and then, filling embedded cavities with concrete. Voila – inflatable concrete! A pop-up building! Blow it up. Squirt some stuff inside. Move in the furniture.

Product Shockvertising – Bolt Detergent

(TrendHunter.com) Your initial reaction may be shock when you see this ad, but take a closer look. It’s a print campaign for Bolt Detergent and definitely made me do a double take.

The best part is the tag line, “It smells this irresistible.”

It’s an attention grabber, for sure, and isn’t that what clever ads are …

Viral Deleted Scenes – Borat DrownWatch (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) For some, this is not such a sexy time. This deleted scene from the much-loved Borrat movie features one of the most talked about features of the film: the Borat thong bikini. It’s more than a little scary, and if you didn’t like Borat the first time, don’t watch this. On the other hand, if yo…

Fashion Disasters – Harem Pants & Shants (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) There are some days I spot things like these “fashionable” pants, and I pray they don’t become mainstream. It’s even worse when I read about these items being promoted under a good light, but thankfully, Divine Caroline agrees that unless you’re MC Hammer, you can get away with harem pants.

Also on…

Shocking Lingerie – CamelToe Party Undies

(TrendHunter.com) While Hollywood starlets dread being snapped by the paparazzi and being posted on Perez Hilton with a Camel Toe (slang for outline of a woman’s privates when seen through tight, form-fitting clothes), Japanese girls seem to be embracing the toe as a cool and hip thing.

Check out these party panties…

Top 10 Toilet Paper Designs – Wipe in Style (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) To evoke any type of ‘wow’ factor these days, toilet paper has to offer a lot me than “Comfort Where You Want It,” “A Stronger Feeling of Softness,” “Pillowy softness you can see and feel” and will have to offer more than just the “Best For Bear Bottoms.”

Don’t know what I mean? Check out these nov…

Fingernail Cameras – Make Everything Your Touch Pad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In the future, everything could become a touch-sensitive interface, but it wouldn’t be the object itself that was picking up the movement, it would be a system integrated into each finger, specifically under the nail. It wouldn’t cost much either, all you need s a basic web cam and computer.

This w…

Furry Couture – Rabbit Theme at Japan Fashion Week (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tokyo is recognized as an international fashion capital, but the Japanese are also known for an affinity for all things cute. A combination of the two was evident at Tokyo Fashion Week earlier this month when models walked the runway wearing gigantic rabbit heads.

In Japan even adults are fascinat…