Windows Vista SP1 Toilet Paper – Wipe Your System Clean Promotion

(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese alway seem to come up with very unusual promotional items and gadgets.

This time, the Akiba PC Hotline is advertising special Windows Vista SP1 toilet paper! Unfortunately, I can’t read Japanese, so I don’t know whether this is intended to help educate a person on the various featur…

Bread As Art – David Reimondo’s Burned Toast (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What you are looking at, my friends, is art. Ok, to the unsophisticated and uncouth (like me) that might just be a whole bunch of burned toasts artist David Reimondo lined up and manipulated to look like whatever he made the stuff look like. And its all cool. The tired cliche says art is in the eyes…

Naughty Film Celebrates Religious Festival – Playboy TV for St Patricks Day (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Nice to see Playboy TV supporting St Patrick’s day – a traditionally religious festival – by making their own film using strategically placed shamrocks. Not sure if this technically counts as porn but it’s not far off.

“Playboy model Sasha Singleton looks great in green, has the luck of the Irish, …

Retro Game Fashion – Cartoon Corsets at Etsy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you haven’t discovered Esty.com yet, take the rest of the day and browse some of the most bizarre, fun, funky, quirky, whatever fashions. Ran across the Vintage Doctor and look at these fun dresses, or costumes, you decide. But if you are in a playful spirit and want to go retro but cute, these a…

Stretchy Facevertising – Garry Stretch and the Tower of Terror Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Garry Stretch is making the most of the fact he has no collagen in his skin. This video, for London’s Tower of Terror, shows just how far Garry can stretch his limits.

Also known as Gary Turner, a 36-year-old has a form of the incredibly rare Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. As a child he was prone to terr…

BFF Search Via TV – I Wanna Be Paris’ New Best Friend! (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Paris Hilton will be staring in a new TV series that puts an interesting spin on the regular reality shows. Instead of a dating show, MTV will have her looking for a new best friend.

On I Wanna be Paris’ New Best Friend! Hilton will be choosing between 20 women and men, who want a chance to auditi…

3 Eco Chic Wastebins – Trash with Class (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Want to offset the environmental damage you do through your trash? One quick and easy way is with one of Urban Outfitters’ wastebaskets of recycled tin cans. The 12″ high bins are protected with rubber bottoms so you don’t have to worry about the eco-chic container scratching your floors. As they’re…

Fashion Facist Run Amok – States Banning Baggy Styles?

(TrendHunter.com) There is a nation wide crackdown on baggy pants in the U.S. The Man says parents are under-aware of the origins of the droopy drawers. Seems the fad started in prison where you can’t have belts. So the bangers let them droop if they wanted some lovin’. Florida, the mecca of being half naked half the…

Spaceship For Sale – Home Made Space Ship Listed On Craigslist

(TrendHunter.com) This is another one of those gift ideas for someone who already has “everything”. Buy them their very own space ship! For just $3500 (or best offer), you can give them a truly one-of-a-kind gift. Although it could use some work (the current owner notes that it “[d]oes have a wobble issue at Mach …

Urban Prom Fashions 2008 – Pushing the Limits of Authority (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The latest lines of urban prom fashions exude a sense of rebellion.

How I remember the day back in 2008 that I drove my ’94 Cadillac to the seedy district and she was there on the corner just then stubbing out her little cigar. I remember she wore my favorite – camo. We stopped at a liquor store t…

Unique Seats – 100 Chairs in 100 Days by Martino Gamper (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Martino Gamper, who was born in Italy and studied sculpture and product design in Vienna, is one of seven finalists in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year contest. The art project which resulted in his nomination under the furniture category, is called “100 Chairs in 100 Days.”

Just as…

Political Shockvertising – “Hillary Obama” to Promote University

(TrendHunter.com) The Photoshopped picture is from an ad put out by Hogeschool-Universiteit (HUB). The higher education institution in Brussel Belgium seeks to increase attendance by offering prospective students a college and university in one and by asking the question, “Why choose if you can combine?”

That ad ph…

Political Parody Ads – Axe’s Hillary Clinton Spoof

(TrendHunter.com) Axe is one of the most courageous and daring brands, always innovating when it comes to using consumer insights and new products. Their marketing campaign can be quite controversial and easily grab attention.

The featured ad is a political spoof showing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wearing…

Save The Environment – DrinkPee

(TrendHunter.com) This is extremely ecologically cool and really helps the environment and all but it is pretty gross. Researchers at EAWAG Aquatic Research in Switzerland have developed a simple way to extract the phosphorus and nitrogen from urine to be used as fertilizer. Untreated urine reaches the oceans, feedin…

Disastrous Uber Editing – Famous Photoshop Bloopers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Everybody knows that Photoshop is the miracle recipe for great looking stars. But what happens when the art director is over using the Photoshop wonders? It ruins everything! Stars get incredibly slimmer, they get 3 hands or they look like plastic toys. They’re humans after all!

Funny Movie About Fonts – Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) You see fonts everywhere, from graffiti in the street to advertising press inserts or choco pack you were holding in your hand earlier. They are everywhere. Creating them is not that easy as you need to build up their own personality..
Job Wouters is a font artist and along with his 4 year old nephe…

Chocolate Pencils – Dessert Comes with “Pencil Sharpeners”

(TrendHunter.com) If you are a chocolate addict, this is the ultimate dessert to crave for. The chocolate pencils come in different cocoa blends with variable intensity and you can create the right chocolate dose for the addict in you. This innovative product is the result of the collaboration between Japanese archit…

Growing Stem Cells with a Plastic Toy – Shrinky Dinks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Michelle Khine, a professor at the University of California, Merced, has built microfluidic devices with Shrinky Dinks. She developed complicated 3-D chips by stacking layers of polymer film. Shrinky Dinks, which shrink when exposed to oven heat, are ideal to make tiny breeding grounds for stem cell…

Pregnant Ballerinas – “MaEternal” (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Twelve pregnant women auditioning for “MaEternal”, will have a chance to dance in the newest production by Balletlorent.

Artistic Director Liv Lorent, who happens to be pregnant, believes mothers in waiting are fascinating, beautiful and serene, qualities which can only enrich her ballet productio…

Bordellos Losing Business to Internet – Hotel Luxor Shut Down (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Whoa! The legendary sex flagship the Hotel Luxor, Hamburg’s oldest bordello, is closing up shop.

The German city is known for its infamous Reeperbahn, the red light district which has been around since 1948.

“You can’t make good money in this area anymore with real sex,” Waltraud Mehrer, the est…