Sexy Urban Legends for Marketing – All Green M&Ms;

(TrendHunter.com) Companies all over the world are leveraging whatever green traits their product or service can offer, and now, so is a famous candy brand… just not in the way you’d think. Nope, the Valentines campaign has nothing to do with being environmentally friendly, instead, it has to do with sex.

The ol…

Pre-Broken Ceramics – Greece VS China Plates

(TrendHunter.com) Greece vs China is a plate with a clear concept: take the plates needlessly broken during any traditional Greek wedding celebration. salvage them, and glue them back together to sell them as high minded design objects. But don’t worry about getting broken china chips in your hummus because the pla…

Packing Tape Portraits – Mark Khaisman Tapeworks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Believe it or not, these phenomenal works of art are made out of translucent brown packing tape. By layering the tape on top of a sheets of Plexiglas, Mark Khaisman was able to craft these creations that look a lot like sepia-toned negatives.

Some portraits are more retro, and look as if they were…

Ambiguous Art – The Blur of Gender (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) According to Sigmund Freud, “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.”

For most people, the state of ambiguity is an uncomfortable one, from the blurring of gender roles to gender itself. The world as we think we know it is constantly being challenged. Primetime television had three gender…

Computer Cases Get Faces – PC Personality by Ross McBride

(TrendHunter.com) Ross McBride’s computer tower faces concept gives PCs a personality.

Now comes the sad face. The design is currently stowed away in the designer’s “idea” file, and it doesn’t appear that he has plans to produce these. Too bad. I’d love to see an entire server room filled with these, all w…

Controversial New YouTube Star – Who is MRirian? (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Her videos have combined for millions of views, so what’s the deal with MRirian? Why are so many people watching her, and why does anybody care? Is she Japanese? Her blog is in Japanese, she speaks Japanese, but according to Japanese sources, she’s not exactly fluent. So is she American? Where is …

Leather Dreadlocks – Oakley Medusa Headgear

(TrendHunter.com) Hardcore RAWKS. Here is headgear from Oakley that is just subversive. Skaters and snowboarders will grab their Medusa like they grab air.

The headgear is on a outer-space manikin, it’s not a mask. It has a soft high-density lining, adjustable chin strap and it has leather dreadlocks!

There are r…

Celebrity Death Polls – When Will Spears and Winehouse Die?

(TrendHunter.com) When is Britney Spears going to Die? When will Amy Winehouse Die?

If you can guess right, you will win a PS3 or an Ipod. The web site, called Mr or Mrs Death, has more than 25,000 participants. This is disgusting to some people, but to others, it sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

People can…

Cultural Hot or Not – RateMyTurban.com (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s another spin off of “hot or not” type sites. RateMyTurban.com lets anyone upload images of them wearing their turban.

Galleries include recent turbans, a hall of fame, as well as links to how to to a turban. At time of posting, the site features 1163 turbans and has had 1,285,561 ratings!

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Human Leash – Goth Fashion Gets Couple Kicked Off Bus

(TrendHunter.com) A Gothic couple was recently asked not to board a bus after being told “dogs” weren’t allowed on board. That could sound discriminatory but Tasha Maltby was asking for it when the bus driver said “We don’t let freaks and dogs like you on.”

The man had his fiance on a leash attached to her collar, …

Electric Light Shoes – Onisuka Tigers With Mini City of Lights

(TrendHunter.com) The electric light shoes were designed for a Japanese footwear company, Onitsuka Tiger, by Freedom of Creation.

The shoe is 3 feet long and contains a miniature city inside, the stripes resemble streets and highways and tall building point out from the shoe’s opening. The huge shoe is intended t…

Website Reunites Missing Gloves – OneColdHand (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever lost a mitten? If not, then surely you’ve seen that abandoned glove on the side of the road, crusting in ice or covered in dirt. Next time, consider picking it up, bringing it home and snapping a photo. That simple deed could land you a message in your inbox hailing you a hero. Image t…

Human Bone Chapel – Sedlec Ossuary (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re afraid of haunted places, this church is probably worth avoiding. The inside of this historical Christian building near Prague, Czechoslovakia is covered in the remains of over 40,000 people. The matter in which it’s done is quite extraordinary as they’ve managed to create some elaborate w…

Tailgate Dining – The Exhaust Cooked Burger

(TrendHunter.com) A team of Iranian designers came up with this brilliant cooking idea which actually isn’t as disgusting as it first looks. Your car’s exhaust is used as a barbecue to grill your food!

That still sounds bad, but consider that the fumes don’t come into contact with the burger, the exhaust just hea…

Fashion Publicy Display Your Size – Measure Tape Belt

(TrendHunter.com) In case your daily morning struggle to fit into your new jeans, or constant reminders form friends and family about the amount of weight you’ve put on aren’t enough to permanently crush your ego, here is another invention to make your therapist a very rich man.

The measure tape belt is a candi…

USB For Distanced Loved Ones – MooMoo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Have someone far away that you miss? Get a MooMoo.

The silly little cow gadget lights up in different colours, and a mooing sound comes out of the computer when someone sends a signal to your MooMoo. While there was no product page to be found, the video seems to show that users can transit a sign…

Disco With Your Baby – Clubs Cater to Mothers with Babies (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Baby Loves Disco started in the US, by dancer Heather Murphy, and has now landed in the UK (when I am based) and I love it. It is the ultimate in a child friendly night out – a disco with your baby!

Basically it is a club night that takes placed during week-day afternoons with everything you woul…

Edible Landscapes – Foodland (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These peculiar photos were created by a Russian artist named Tanusha.

She created landscapes made of food items using some type of photo manipulation software, and has done a tremendous job in the collection of images she’s titled Food Land.

Her images contain mountains made of bread, broccoli t…

Human Hair Dress – Bizarre Fashion Designs to Generate Buzz

(TrendHunter.com) Some designers will stop at nothing to get ink from the fashion writers. Here’s a hair dress to illustrate the point. It was shown at the London College of Fashion awards. The aspiring designer is Julia Reindell. This was part of a collection of hair dresses, which included one that seemed to emanat…

Animals as Babies – Dog Backpack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You’ve seen people strap their babies on their backs and on their stomachs, so why not do the same with their dogs? People treat them as children these days anyway, so it really isn’t that bizarre.

These images show a puffy little Pomeranian strapped to the back of his owner in a checker patterned …