Humanized Video Game Characters – Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV

(TrendHunter.com) The Pixeloo blog and other websites have “untooned” and humanized cartoons and video game characters in the past. Those have included Jessica Rabbit, Homer Simpson, Mario and Bowser among others. This…

Gastronomical Gambling – Letting Your iPhone and Urban Spoon Decide Your Restaurant (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Can’t decide where to dine? Why not gamble on your iPhone? With the help of Urban Spoon, you can let your mobile pick your food for you.

When you eat out a lot, picking a restaurant can be kind of…

Funeral Planning Online – Have Fun Planning Your Death

(TrendHunter.com) DieBoomerDie.blogspot.com is a fun blog, but people die… so it’s important to plan your funeral now.

So grab a bottle of wine or vodka, go to TheFuneralSite.com and make an awesome funeral without…

P2P Marketing – MediaDefender Stops Spamming, Launches Free Sponsored MP3s

(TrendHunter.com) P2P Marketing is a concept whereby consumers download free music which is sponsored by an advertiser. In the past, efforts have been poorly executed, but that’s all about to change.

A key player, MediaDefender…

Thumb Tack Art – How to Recreate Barack Obama Using 21,156 Pins (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In this video, Jake from Zoomdoggle recreates Barack Obama’s famous image using (allegedly) 21,156 thumb tacks. If that count is right, that’s one thumb tack for each delegate. Poetic.

Zoomdoggle’s…

Facebook Passes MySpace – Like Blu Ray vs HD DVD, Except We Care

(TrendHunter.com) Facebook surpassed MySpace for the first time this quarter according to Comscore. Both had 115 million visitors in the month. The U.S. still is MySpace country with Facebook getting about half the visitors…

Get Paid For Your Photographs – Photrade (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) While there are already many places on the web to host and share your images, a new free photography website called Photrade presents a unique paradigm that protects your shared images and enables you…

Social Network Profile Cards – Style Card

(TrendHunter.com) What’s your personal style? If you want to share it, then you’ve got to get a Style Card. These are like business cards only better as they aren’t about work, they’re about YOU or who you want to be. …

Disney Google Earth Tour – 3D Virtual Disney World (UPDATE) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s finally here: after promises made a long time ago by a fairy princess, tours of the lands known as Walt Disney World are available in 3D using Google Earth. With gas prices the way they are, pile…

DIY Facebook Apps – CokeTags Promote Anything You Want (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Coca-Cola has launched CokeTag, a Facebook application that allows anyone to promote themselves and their interests via a convenient DIY portable application.

Coca-Cola describes CokeTag as a “per…

Surprising Yourself With Mystery Gifts – The Something Store

(TrendHunter.com) Feel like buying something, anything, but just don’t know what? Try the Something Store! Upon receiving your $10 payment, the online store will ship you something completely random from their inventor…

Presidential Election 2.0 – Google Trends

(TrendHunter.com) Google Trends lets you see the relative popularity of different search terms in graph form. TechCrunch brings up an interesting point – can the search terms of the pre-election masses predict our next…

Swear Jars – Budweiser Viral Banned from TV, Flourishing on Web (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Budweiser’s “Swear Jar” ads were so inappropriate, they never made the cut for TV. On the web, however, the ads flourished. Even thought Anheuser Busch brand was barely mentioned, neither visually nor…

Plays Based on Web Scandals – User 927 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The User 927 scandal, a huge web privacy issue back in 2006, has resurfaced in Philadelphia in the form of a theatrical play. The production, aptly named USER 927, was put together by Katharine Clark …

DIY Software-as-a-Service Businesses – Micro-SaaS

(TrendHunter.com) The advent of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘Sass’) is making the emergence of a completely new type of business opportunity possible for entrepreneurs: the Micro-SaaS. A Micro-S…

iPhone AppStore Products – Loopt (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Loopt, the “social compass” that transforms your phone into a pinpointing device to show you where your contacts are at any given moment was just demonstrated on the iPhone at WWDC. The GPS applicatio…

Hand-Carved Wood Glasses – Urban Spectacles (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Made from such hardwoods as cocobolo, bloodwood, and purpleheart, the glasses from Urban Spectacles are made-to-order, being custom-designed and hand-carved. These pieces of art are real eyeware that …

Google News Spoofs – Fugue.com’s Good News

(TrendHunter.com) This is a nicely done exercise in wishful thinking. A Google News parody was created by a site called fugue.com showing what Boing Boing calls “A brilliantly done spoof of Google News from a paralle…

Seeking Feedback for Innovation – Gmail Labs

(TrendHunter.com) With the launch of Gmail Labs, Google is further strengthening their position as web leader as they demonstrate the importance of feedback.

“Gmail Labs is a way for us to take lots of the ideas we wo…

Digitally Aged Celebrities – Stars Who Died Young as Seniors (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Andrzej Dragan’s remarkable photographic portraits focus on well known public figures who died long before they became old. The Polish-born artist shows the celebrities as they may have looked had the…