Online Dating Beauty Upgrades – Neu.de Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What if I told you you that you can have your girlfriend’s breasts easily enlarged without surgery? Nice, huh? And you girls can have your boyfriend lose weight within 5 days, and get his lost hair back as well!

Well, that’s what the new ad campaign for neu.de, a german dating site, promises you. …

Facebook Goes Green – Greenbook Application

(TrendHunter.com) Facebook has launched its Greenbook application to help reduce CO2 emissions emitted by its servers and millions of worldwide users.

Basically what the Greenbook add-on does is generate money through sponsorship. The money collected through these sponsorships are then used to fund emission reducin…

Stop-Motion Human Snake – Nokia N-Gage Ad Uses 1000 People (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) What happens when life imitates computer games? The Human Snake happens! The stop-motion video is actually a viral ad for the Nokia N-Gage campaign.

Despite it being an ad, the Human Snake video is so well done, it’s a welcome addition to Trend Hunter’s collection of stop-motion videos, some of wh…

Custom Cigarette Packs – Build Your Own Death Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Build Your Own Death Project obviously is an anti-smoking endeavor that adds creative flair and interactivity in their campaign. Launched by a Chilean agency, BYODP offers smokers the chance to create their own customized package of cigarettes using fully downloadable free templates from their websi…

Desktop Clutter as Art – PC Desktop Art Made with Folders (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Gizmodo is running a contest for the coolest looking desktop made entirely out of folders. They have received 14 entries so far and some of them are pretty impressive. Ren and Stimpy, Purple Tentacle, Iron Man, Daffy Duck and one of the character from South Park are among the themes submitted. The c…

Raining Gadgetery – The Sony Tumble Campaign (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot on the heels of its recent Foam City viral, Sony Electronics has launched a new marketing campaign for its DSLR cameras and camcorders. The multi-platform campaign, which features Sony cameras “tumbling” from a mountain top, will launch on print, TV, street billboards, subways, in-theater, a…

Interactive Guantanamo – Second Life Gone Gitmo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A virtual simulation of Guantanamo in Second Lifewas designed by Nonny de la Peña, a journalist and filmmaker and Peggy Weil, an assistant professor in the interactive-media division of the U.S.C. film school. The game is called Gone Gitmo.

De la Peña and Weil say they created the virtual tortur…

Going Blue – Water Footprint Calculators

(TrendHunter.com) For the last few years everyone has been focused on going green, but the latest buzz phrase is “going blue.” While being green conscious involves carbon footprint calculators, your blue savvy can be aided with the help of a water footprint calculator from Goblue.org.

The Canadian website is trying…

Location Based Gaming – Locomatrix Blends Virtual and Reality (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) LocoMatrix is a UK based game company that has developed a location based game to force our kids into the open.

The games are available for GPS enabled mobile phones. One of the games, called Fruit Farmer, requires the players to run around in a real environment such as a park or beach collecting …

Solar Array Estimates by Satellite- Sungevity

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve thought about powering your house with solar technologies, Sungevity is a new Berkley website that would be of great interest to you.

Sungevity looks for your home via satellite images after you input your adress. After pinpointing your location, the service identifies the size of your r…

Branded TV Shows – Tommy Hilfiger TV

(TrendHunter.com) Tommy TV is the new online television station launched by Tommy Hilfiger and Sony BMG.

When I read first the news, I thought “Well, well, well, how much of a brand worshipper do you have to be in order to watch TV created by your favourite brand?” But after that, I realized that it could be a grea…

Artistic Destruction – CrashBonsai (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Artist John Rooney artistically destroys toy cars to resemble real auto accidents. John sells his CrashBonsai miniature masterpieces for between $75 and $125.

Ironic when you stop to think about the tranquility of bonsai trees in contrast with the anxiety brought about from a car crash. I love it.

Creative Concert Contests – Write a Poem to See Madonna Live

(TrendHunter.com) VH1 is giving away two tickets to see Madonna perform live at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City. The mega pop diva is scheduled to perform at the historic catering hall/music/dance venue on April 30th in celebration of the April 29th release of her CD “Hard Candy”.

But here is the catch.

Yo…

The News in Thumbnails – ‘Fascinum’ Online Live Art

(TrendHunter.com) The Fascinum is an example of online art which is live.

The site gives a live update of the news photographs which are most viewed (ranked from 1 to 10) on different national Yahoo portals, in real time. Designed by Christophe Bruno, the Fascinum gives a thumbnail view to what is happening around …

Cewebrity Reality Shows – Tay Zonday Wants to be Paris Hilton’s BFF (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Internet superstar Tay Zonday has set his sights on being Paris Hilton’s best friend.

Apparently Paris Hilton has a new show, I Wanna Be Paris’ New Best Friend. People can go online and upload their audition, then the community can vote on it.

The genius of the Chocolate rain star knows no boun…

Celebrity Youtube Channels – Madonna Vacuums to Appeal to Fans (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Using YouTube to reach out to your fans is nothing new. But this is the first time a Superstar Diva of the magnitude of Madonna has directly posted a non-conventional video utilizing the popular video site to reach these Youtuber fans.

In a new video posted on her official YouTube channel, Madonna …

Remixed Retro Virals – Pussycat Doll Redoes Duran Duran’s Rio for Caress (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) When you combine a stunning Pussy Cat Doll, remix a wildly popular 80s tune and have a hot Brazilian theme to your campaign, how could it not go viral?

To promote Caress Brazilian Exotic Oil Infusions bodywash, Nicole Scherzinger is using her exotic appeal and stunning voice to a front a new campa…

Imitating Your Youth – Young Me, Now Me (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Young Me, Now Me is a fun photo sharing site that features photographs of people imitating a photo from their youth.

The site, by Ze Frank, is open to anyone, both to peruse the user-created galleries or to upload their own images. It’s a fun and quirky way to be a little narcisistic while being a…

Cheap Internet for Travelers – RovAir WiFi

(TrendHunter.com) The blogosphere is buzzing about a new service called RovAir. Rather than paying high hotel fees or subscribing to long term (and pricey) broadband aircard services, travelers can spend as little as $5.95 per day for internet servcie. RovAir ships one of their cards to you overnight, or sends it by …

Naughty Investment Banks – AdultVest

(TrendHunter.com) A what bank? A little bizarre, but read on! Los Angeles is home to the world’s first adult entertainment investment bank in Beverly Hills, as noted by the business section of The Times.

AdultVest is an “investment bank that concentrates its practice exclusively on adult industry investments, merg…