(TrendHunter.com) I may soon be officially classified with a brain illness… According to the editorial of the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry: Internet addiction — including “excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging” — is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that sh…
(TrendHunter.com) A really great site for finding out what videos are creating buzz on the net is ViralVideoCharts.com. Before you think it’s just another time waster, consider that, if you’re already into watching clips on the internet, this site could actually make it faster and more efficient.
Surfing YouTube fo…
(TrendHunter.com) If you prefer to read real books as opposed to digital ones on your PC and you have a hard time comprehending the ‘big words’, or if you are learning a new language; Korean company Unichal has the perfect reading companion for you.
Here is how it works: The $90 Dixau reads along with you, scanning…
(TrendHunter.com) Nokia has launched a global advertising campaign called The Urbanista Diaries, a global relay race, to launch the Nokia N82 in hopes of showing the cell phone’s abilities as well as encouraging brand loyalty.
The campaign will deliver news in real time with help from partner sites, CNN, Lonely Pla…
(TrendHunter.com) Tired of swiping your sister’s clothes because she has more fashion sense or a more disposable income?
Try swapstyle.com and swap her clothes with some complete stranger’s, and you’ll never get busted. She’ll just think it disappeared.
SwapStyle is an enormous virtual closet that lets you swap f…
(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese alway seem to come up with very unusual promotional items and gadgets.
This time, the Akiba PC Hotline is advertising special Windows Vista SP1 toilet paper! Unfortunately, I can’t read Japanese, so I don’t know whether this is intended to help educate a person on the various featur…
(TrendHunter.com) If you haven’t discovered Esty.com yet, take the rest of the day and browse some of the most bizarre, fun, funky, quirky, whatever fashions. Ran across the Vintage Doctor and look at these fun dresses, or costumes, you decide. But if you are in a playful spirit and want to go retro but cute, these a…
(TrendHunter.com) HOO… whatcha gonna do, when they come for you? I’m going on ratemycop.com and give them some negative feedback, that will show ’em. Just like eBay, this site is helpful if you plan on doing business with the local constable and want to make sure you are treated fairly. Of course, the mounties don’…
(TrendHunter.com) Pepsi has taken a note from the world of fashion in designing the campaign for their latest beverage brand, Tava.
The decidedly retro ad campaign looks as though it was inspired by a blend of pin-up style imagery and older Japanese art. The sparkling, zero calorie drink comes in a bevy of exotic fl…
(TrendHunter.com) I am Sixty (((Hi Sixty))) I am addicted to Bitstrip. Yes I have wasted the whole day making comic strips about friends, family and blogging buddies. Bitstrip was launched at SXSW and is an amazing free cartooning application. You make the characters, but Bitstrip will set the scenes, provide the pro…
(TrendHunter.com) You see fonts everywhere, from graffiti in the street to advertising press inserts or choco pack you were holding in your hand earlier. They are everywhere. Creating them is not that easy as you need to build up their own personality..
Job Wouters is a font artist and along with his 4 year old nephe…
(TrendHunter.com) (Warning: post contains bare bodies)
How much would you pay to own photographs of some of the world’s most famous beauties… without their clothes on? New York auction house, Christie’s bets people are willing to shell out a few thousand dollars to own sexy photographs of the most attractive fema…
(TrendHunter.com) Whoa! The legendary sex flagship the Hotel Luxor, Hamburg’s oldest bordello, is closing up shop.
The German city is known for its infamous Reeperbahn, the red light district which has been around since 1948.
“You can’t make good money in this area anymore with real sex,” Waltraud Mehrer, the est…
(TrendHunter.com) Finding the perfect pair of jeans can be so difficult, but thankfully, modern technology is taking finding the perfect pair to the next level. Customization is what future fashion is all about.
Adding science to fashion, Bodymetrics uses computer technology to accurately measures the shape of an i…
(TrendHunter.com) Benetton has launched a global campaign in support of micro-lending program Birima which is based in Senegal. It seems micro-lending or micro-credit programs are suddenly becoming ubiquitous and trendy as they are increasingly tied to big companies (in this case Italian clothing retailers Benetton) …
(TrendHunter.com) For Diesel’s High Speed Fashion online shopping campaign, they’ve launched print ads featuring an attractive young mother powdering her babies bum while running in skinny jeans and stilettos.
The ad reads, “Haiku: You should buy Diesel / You can run in your jeans and / powder baby’s butt”
The pri…
(TrendHunter.com) While much of the world uses US-owned YouTube to watch and share videos, China has come up with their own answer in the form of Youku.com, a company that recently partnered with MySpace China.
The site looks similar to YouTube, showing a main video with different channels and featured videos on the…
(TrendHunter.com) With a simple keystroke, freeware application Windows Hidie will hide those naughty windows on your desktop so you won’t get busted looking at, say, Heidi Klum while you should be working. Call it the Cyber Slacker’s ultimate must-have.
“When Windows Hidie hides a window, it disappears from your t…
(TrendHunter.com) If you are still planning to buy an Apple iPhone, keep waiting. If you can wait until 2009 or even 2010, you could grab one that it will run the Intel processor like all the iMacs do now when the new phones launch with x86.
According to Charlie Demerjian at The Inquirer, “The iPhone is going to go…
(TrendHunter.com) Can’t afford a million-dollar premium domain name?
Why not own the next best thing, the reverse spelling of it. It’s called Backwording and it’s the newest domaining phenomenon that is changing the landscape of the Internet. The concept is simple: register the backward spelling of premium domain …
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