Lickable Ads – Welch’s Grape Juice

(TrendHunter.com) Scratch and sniff is so ’90s. Marketers for Welch’s have gotten a lot more savvy when trying to appeal to the senses of their customers. The company has launched a new lickable ad campaign for their grape juice.

Similar to perfume ads that have panels you pull back to offer a hint of the fragrance…

Barbed Wired Crib – Baby Furniture by John Greg Ball

(TrendHunter.com) This crib is not really designed with barbed wire. It just looks like it. The design is supposed to mimic and make light of the physical restraints and many spatial limitations that human beings create to limit mobility. The x shaped motif is supposed to encourage the babies to stay in the crib. How…

Star Wars Origami (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dorks unite! There is finally a way your two great loves may meet – Star Wars Origami. The recent craze has been sweeping the globe with sites popping up all over the net. Happymagpie.com teaches you how to make your own Destroyer Droid or Naboo Fighter ship. Whilst Phillip West’ Flickr acco…

Buddhist-Themed Amusement Park – Suoi Tien Park (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Who says spirituality can’t be fun? Suoi Tien Park in Vietnam is an amusement park themed by all things Buddhism.

Forget meditation or consuming nothing but healing herbs, this park has all the fun things traditional amusement parks do including wild roller coaster rides, water slides, race cars a…

Coiled Man Hair For Women – Shehawks at Emporio Armani (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Watching the Emporio Armani show, it was difficult to stay focused on the fashions being paraded down the runway as my gaze was stuck on the model’s heads.

The hairstyles at the Milan Fashion Week show weren’t elaborate, brightly coloured or large. They were short and mannish, coiled on top of the…

Political Musical – Barackula

(TrendHunter.com) “Barackula” is a fictional horror rock musical featuring the Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Barack Obama as a young warrior fighting a secret society of vampires at his alma mater Harvard Law School in 1990 when he was inducted into presidency of the Harvard Law Review. Barackula, which u…

12 Interesting Beds (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We read in them. We watch television in them. We make love in them. We sleep in them. I’m talking about beds and like us, they come in all shapes and sizes. This is a collection of interesting beds that I found across the internet. Good night.

musical bed / bed made of jade / magic bed / world’s la…

Cheese Made of Breast Milk – Human Cheese (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If the thought of adults drinking human breast milk make you cringe, what about the thought of eating fermented human breast milk on your crackers?

The video shows exactly where Human Cheese, a new social enterprise, goes for their product. So whose boobs are you drinking from? Well, according to …

Return of Heroin Chic – Vivienne Westwood Red Label (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While at first glance this may look like an angry animal rights activist protesting fur on the runway, this is actually a model from Vivienne Westwood’s Fall 2008 show.

Part of the British designer’s collection shown at London Fashion Week included a model in tattered black tights with what looked…

Apple Compatible Toilet – Air Poo

(TrendHunter.com) The Air Poo is a huge Poonovation when it comes to comfort style and functionality of a toilet. It sports a Macbook Air docking station that allows to comfortably get work done while taking care of other business, and allows you to store the Macbook in the toilet tank to recharge. As well a built in…

Witch Fashion – Luella Fall 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Halloween is a big part of autumn for many people, but has the marketing become so influential on our society that a designer can design a ready to wear collection inspired by it? Luella marched model Alice Gibb down the runway dressed as a witch, complete with pointed hat and pumpkin orange tights …

Nerd Sports – Speed Cabling (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Now even the nerds can be good at sport, although I doubt this one will ever make it to the Olympics, but you never know even curling did. The sport: Speed Cabling. The Objective: see who can untangle bundles of CAT-5 Ethernet cables the fastest. The Reward: Ultimate geek glory to bestow upon your f…

Detect The Intensity of Virtual Kisses – Kiss Phone

(TrendHunter.com) We told you cell phone kissing was a hot activity in Japan, and now kissing your loved one from a distance via mobile is even easier thanks to the Kiss Phone.

Better than just using video and making loud smooching sounds, this neat gadget from PROinvention can actually detect the intensity of your…

Plaid Street Fashion – Preppy Punk at House of Holland (Fall 2008) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) House of Holland had a really cool collection last season of which we featured the Model Attack Shirts. They’ve just shown their latest line at London Fashion Week, and the Fall 2008 pieces they showed were truly magnificent, while still heavy on the bizarre.

The most peculiar pieces included a pl…

Marmite Statue – The Kiss by Jeremy Fattorini

(TrendHunter.com) Not so long ago we featured a special edition, champagne-infused Valentine’s Day Marmite. Besides delighting and disgusting many people, the spread also inspired one artist to create a sculpture made entirely of Marmite.

It’s a remake of “The Kiss” by Rodin and was created by sculptor Jeremy Fatto…

Musical Dogs For Marketing – Falling in Love (Doggy Style) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember Dogside? Now the pet company, whose mission is to pamper pooches with only the best, has launched a viral video of “the world’s first ever canine boy band.”

The clip, which can be seen above, features a series of dogs in a music video to Falling in Love (Doggy Style) which sees the canine…

Making Machines to Imitate Nature – 14k Gold Mechanical Dragonfly (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Anax Imperator Machina is latin for The Emporor Dragonfly Machine, says artist Jesse Dang. Illiantbray is pig latin for brillant. This large model (8 inch wingspan) is meant to interpret the gadgets of daVinci. Dang wanted to recreate nature using classic engineering and beautiful form. Everything i…

Digg-Meets-Jackass Web Site – Bragster.com

(TrendHunter.com) Intel Capital, the investment branch of Intel computer chips, has thrown some money into a social web site called Bragster.com. The site hopes to attract the craziest stunts ever caught on video – for instance, “I bet I can do 15 shots of tequila in 60 minutes.” Do it and you can win bragbucks and e…

Meat On The Pole Not On The Plate – Vegan Strip Club (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) “Vixens not veil, sizzle not steak we put the meat on the pole not on the plate.” Is the motto of Johnny Diablo owner and founder of the very first (worldwide) vegan strip club, Casa Diablo, in Oregon.

Presented in a chauvinistic fashion, although to be going to strip club in the first place yo…

Helmet for the Anti-Social – Use-Thing

(TrendHunter.com) Ugh, could the people around me just keep their mouths shut?

If you’ve ever found yourself thinking something along those lines when out in public, you’ll understand the inspiration behind the Use-Thing, an enormous helmet that shields you from society’s most obnoxious sights, sounds and smells.

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