(TrendHunter.com) I never stopped to consider how the visually impaired surfed the Internet. But what about porn? Do the braille outputs resemble the image seen here or does a robotic voice whistle or say “what a woman!”? It turns out that a lot of porn sites are poorly designed, for both the blind and those with 20…
(TrendHunter.com) 1800 Tequila has developed an advertising campaign where nine artists from around the world were commissioned to design collectible limited edition bottles of the tequila; the bottle designs are also being displayed on billboards across several US cities.
But that is not all. 1800 Tequila also put…
(TrendHunter.com) This EXCEPTIONALLY clever video depicts a completely different storyline when played in reverse vs forward.
The video begins by shocking viewers with a dismal outlook from the ‘lost generation’. The reader notes, “I am part of a lost generation, and I refuse to believe that I cannot change the wor…
(TrendHunter.com) The long-aniticipated and much blogged about Foam City Sony viral ad has arrived. The ad promotes Sony’s Handycam, Cyber-shot and its new digital camera brand, α (alpha). Interestingly, the ads have been anticipated to become viral, long before today’s launch.
A while ago, Sony flooded downtown …
(TrendHunter.com) The number-crunchers over at DelayCast have crunched some historical data to predict the likelihood of your flight being delayed or canceled. They can predict a broad range of delays by looking at specific times of day, airports and regions rather than specific flights.
What’s even cooler, as their…
(TrendHunter.com) Live Hope Love is a beautiful online photo and poetry journal that captures the lives of those living with HIV in Jamaica. The multimedia project offers an interactive look into the lives of people Living and Loving with AIDS in Jamaica.
“HIV/AIDS is defined by people: their complex lives, their br…
(TrendHunter.com) Further proving that people love everything related to cats, this video is rising up the charts. The video, “An Engineer’s Guide to Cats,” features an engineer and his assistant walking through a pragmatic, but peculiar, guide to cat ownership.
The two descriptively note, “The purpose of this pr…
(TrendHunter.com) Anime is hotter than ever, and if you’re a fan, you might want an Anime Halo Robot.
Not speaking Japanese definitely puts me at a disadvantage with this one. Meet ‘Halo’, a character from the Japanese anime series Gundam 00 (or at least so I gather from the translated website). The Robot tells ti…
(TrendHunter.com) It’s a simple premise really – get a black cab, get an up and coming band/artist and a video camera, drive around while they play and then post the resulting footage online. Et voila: the Black Cab Sessions.
Essentially focusing attention from bombastic impersonal stage shows, it’s all about…
(TrendHunter.com) Will Ferrell’s comedy social site Funny or Die has collaborated with the “Know More Things” foundation on a celebrity Sexual Harassment PSA featuring Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere.
Panettiere draws attention to sexual harassment at the work place. It doesn’t matter who does it, even if it’s by …
(TrendHunter.com) Some of the most insidious malware to come down the pike such as NetSky, Mydoom and Parite have been rendered into 3-D visuals. Romanian artist and MIT researcher Alex Dragulescu has studied the recurring patterns of the most dangerous computer codes that can bring down networks and “painted” them i…
(TrendHunter.com) While sometimes I’m left at baffled at how an article made the front page of Reddit, others, like this Australian comedy sketch, don’t surprise me in the least bit.
The viral video featuring Aussie comedian Shaun Micallef is brilliant. The clip, part of the Micallef Pogram, shows him in the Drunk …
(TrendHunter.com) Animoto is an easy-to-use website that allows you to create completely customized music videos using your own photographs. This is the future of animated slide shows; you’ll never go back to PowerPoint presentations again!
After selecting a song of your choice and the images you want integrated in …
(TrendHunter.com) Remember the Where’s Waldo books you loved as a kid? Now you can play the high-tech, ultra-modern version with Google Earth!
Where On Earth Is Waldo? is the creation of Melanie Cole, a Media Art student who came up with the idea for her graduation project.
The glasses-clad, lanky geek in the stri…
(TrendHunter.com) Remember Tay Zonday, the young baritone who become famous for his YouTube video in which he sang Chocolate Rain? One guy loved the internet celebrity so much, he had Zonday’s face tattooed on his shoulder!
I’m a bit of an odd person myself, so I can’t judge others for doing bizarre things, but thi…
(TrendHunter.com) Remember the 80’s? Ghetto-blasters and mixtapes dominated that decade and everyone was making mixtapes for their breakdancing routines, for their friends, and the most important reason: for their crushes!
Alas, technology came and wiped the humble mixtape right off the map, but now there’s Mixwit …
(TrendHunter.com) As if we didn’t have proof enough of Radiohead’s forward thinking embrace of modern technology and marketing (see their Pay What You Want release of new album In Rainbows recently), the ever innovative band has created a social networking site called W.A.S.T.E built by interactive developers Nin…
(TrendHunter.com) This fun T-shirt with symbols and references to viral videos and Internet memes that we all have seen in our emails and on YouTube is a must have for the viral-obsessed YouTube generation .
From Chocolate Rain and the Starwars Kid, to the Laughing Baby and the menacing look of the Squirrel; this Ch…
(TrendHunter.com) Hathead.com is the only place where you can design, vote for, and buy custom (from the ground up) hats online.
For designers, this is another place to test your skills and win some cash. With the large number of headwear lovers out there – this is poised to become a huge hit. Check it out!
(TrendHunter.com) I’ve been a fan of the Barbarian Group for a while, one of the hottest interactive ad agencies out there. But with the beta release of their iTunes visualizer, called the ‘Magnetosphere’, they have absolutely obliterated the paradigm for what an ‘agency does’. I mean i can’t stop looking at the thin…
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