(TrendHunter.com) GeoSimCities is a website that provides a 3-D virtual representation of cities.
This is a wonderful idea. I visited the site and checked out the virtual Philadelphia tours of offered on the site. Also included in virtual Philly was E-shopping, city planning, human interaction with other visitors to…
(TrendHunter.com) Think Dr. Martens are boring? Think you know how to make them better? Doc is listening.
They’ve created a contest, aptly named FREEDM, that gives anyone the freedom to express their footwear design ideas. Entries can be designs for short or high cut (8 or 14-hole) boots and can be as wildly creativ…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re like me, you’re attracted to stories with great photos. If this sounds like you, TenbyTen.org is worth checking out. It features the top 100 current news stories in a photo cube of, you guessed it, 10 photos across and 10 photos high. It’s updated hourly and is a great resource for spottin…
(TrendHunter.com) YouTube is a great tool for creating spoofs. We’ve seen spoofs of famous viral videos, from silly Apple ads to parodies of Miss South Carolina. Now a group is parodying Facebook. Idiots of Ants, a UK comedy group, created a video in which people applied their Facebook mannerisms to real life encount…
(TrendHunter.com) I thought the Wi-Fi Detector T-shirt we featured was truly awesome, albeit so geeky, no one with a hint of fashion savvy would dare wear the digital display. These sneakers, on the other hand, aren’t as flashy, but still work as fully functional hot spot finders.
As you wander around town, an inte…
(TrendHunter.com) One of the first stories I wrote when I joined Trend Hunter was the huge effect Apple’s Macbook Air commercial had on Yael Naim’s success on the charts. The song shot to the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart out seemingly of nowhere.
So far, Apple has had a golden touch on all artists featured …
(TrendHunter.com) Hearing the aspirations of others can be really inspiring, and it’s exactly the premise behind 43things.com, a community dedicated to sharing goals and things that motivate people.
The site is open for anyone to join, giving them access to read posts as well as submit their own Life Lists. If you …
(TrendHunter.com) Grand Theft Auto IV… GTA IV… GTA4… it seems that’s all we’re hearing about these last few days.
Released worldwide (except in Japan) for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on April 29, Grand Theft Auto 4 has gamers shaking in their boots with anticipation. The Rockstar Games product is expected to b…
(TrendHunter.com) LG hosted an elaborate party, complete with red carpet, Wolfgang Puck catering and celebrity attendees for the launch of Scarlett, a brand new TV series. They spent millions on promotions for what appeared to be a new TV show staring a gorgeous action hero. The LA party followed weeks of build up su…
(TrendHunter.com) Imagine: You’re standing in the metro, the guy behind you levels his mobile phone to the back of your shirt and at that moment, you get a chit with his number. Uuuhhh! Either, you’re one of the rare 5% of extraordinarily stunning people of the world or you’re wearing a T-Shirt by Emma Cott.
Due to …
(TrendHunter.com) Vlada Roslyakova, known best for her distinctive, backward-leaning runway strut, has created a public look-book of all of her favourite Style.com beauty and fashions looks.
Essentially, this gives fans a sneak peak into the mind of the 20-year-old Russian model and gives the public an idea of the s…
(TrendHunter.com) “Life’s too short for the wrong job,” Isn’t that so true? That’s the tag line for these motivational career ads by German job search site, Jobsintown.de.
The visuals for the guerrilla ads are even more clever than the text! They campaign features a series of machines that perform automated service…
(TrendHunter.com) SillOf’s Workshop is an online collection of homemade steampunk sci-fi action figures. Here is his (or her) go at Star Wars characters. All the biggies are here – Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, R2-D2, C-3PO, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, and StormTrooper. NOTE: Items not for sale…
(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has told you about Polyvore before, a website that allows you to make photo collages by hand picking the hautest fashions from a huge collection of websites, from Style.com to Bluefly.com. Not only is it great exposure for bigger online fashion stores, but it’s also an exceptional way t…
(TrendHunter.com) Belgian beauty Tanya Devereaux is no stranger to unconventional campaigns. Last year, Tanya promised 40,000 “jobs” (wink, wink) during her campaign as a NEE party senate candidate in Belgium. Although she was pretty popular, she did not win the senate seat. However, you can not keep a girl with a bi…
(TrendHunter.com) The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) launched an ethical fashion ezine named “Thread”. The online magazine seeks to address issues many fashion-conscious and environmentally-responsible people constantly grapple with such as the damage sustained by the environment due to irresponsible and unethica…
(TrendHunter.com) Ever typed your name into Google and found out how many people you shared your name with? Jim Kileen, the director of the movie Google Me did exactly that when he Googled his name and decided to meet the other Jim Kileens.
His trip took him around the US, Australia, Ireland and Scotland. What the …
(TrendHunter.com) 1,500 students in Belgium dressed in matching ponchos to participate in a competition to break a new world record, and they succeeded! They made it into the Guiness World Records for the most Mentos and Coke explosions.
This is one of those Guinness record things which involve a whole bunch of peo…
(TrendHunter.com) James Buck, an American student studying the new leftists and the blogosphere in Egypt for his Master thesis was arrested when watching riots in Mahalla, Egypt on April 10th. Just after his arrest, he managed to tweet “Arrested” which alerted his friends and followers of the situation.
As a result…
(TrendHunter.com) Trendinista follows her excellent fish-inspired fashion post with a superb study of Diana Bobar’s Spring’08 ready-to-wear collection. This time, inspiration seems to come from the endangered Wild Cyclamen, a tubular Mediterranean flower with breezy, spiral petals.
Trendinista explains that the g…
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