Adopt an Olive Tree – Nudo Virtual Plant Fostering (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Have you always imagined having your very own olive tree on a romantic Italian hillside? Now you can! Olive oil producers Nudo, lets you ‘foster’ an olive tree in their groves in La Marche Italy. You even get to choose the area of the grove from where you want your tree.

With adoption comes rew…

Butter Sticks – Grease Sticks for Toast

(TrendHunter.com) The glue stick butter applicator is just the right combination of functionality and silliness. I’m not sure that this idea is a commercial reality, but I can definitely see the potential.

One can’t help but look at this picture and think, “Why not?” It may not be worth a thousand words, but def…

Wind-Up Promotional Toys – McDonald’s Cranks it Up for Coffee (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Be warned Starbucks, McDonald’s is making a very strong push to promote its coffee. Following the unusual Sort Your Head outdoors campaign, Alma DDB has created a fun print ad campaign promoting McDonald’s premium roast coffee.

The “Wake up with a premium roast coffee” campaign features wind-up toy…

Space Produce – Mega Veggies Could End World Hunger (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I wonder if these things have Air Miles? Mega Veggies are grown from seeds that were fired into space, where for two weeks, they orbited the Earth. Once returned, the seeds are cultivated in hothouses and the final product is the HUGE specimens seen in these photos.

Mega Veggies are a product of th…

Famous Apples to Promote Cereal – Eve & Snow White for Kellogs

(TrendHunter.com) To advertise the use of “more fruit than before” in Kellog’s All-Bran Fruit’n Fibre cereal, JWT advertising agency brought in non-other than Snow White from the beloved children’s fairy tale and our mother, the first female, Eve.

While it’s usually one red apple in the hand of Eve or snow white, we…

Transformer Coffee Cups – Multicultural En Terrasse / To Go Mug (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While coffee is a universal drink, different cultures have different rituals and ways of drinking it. For example, while most people in New York City would have their coffee “to go” and drink it on the move, you’d be hard pressed to find the same in Paris, where the typical coffee drinking is …

Junk Food Motorcycles – The Hamburglar Bike

(TrendHunter.com) Harry Sperl of Florida had this Harley bike customized to look like a really fat hamburger. I think it’s a total riot!

“Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t see this kind of thing more often, since Harley’s are a symbol of the American dream,” Slipperybrick says. “Judging by the hoardes [sic] of …

Sushi Cologne – Smell Like Dinner Wherever You Go

(TrendHunter.com) If you love the smell of Japanese restaurants, then you’ll be excited to know you can experience the aromas of white rice, seaweed and fish wherever you go. Demeter created a sushi cologne that seeks to transport a person to a special place or time.

If the smell of sushi brings you back to an amaz…

Bread Parties – Dough Something Different in SF

(TrendHunter.com) Flour power has struck the west coast. While it sounds like something your grandma would have done as a young housewife, bread baking parties are actually a hip type of social get-together people in San Francisco are excitedly participating in.

Curious bakers are gathering to learn the recipes of …

Fresh Baked Heads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Believe it or not Artist Kittiwat Unarrom who has a family baking business is baking Hhads and other body parts.

Does that seem gruesome? You probably would be relieved if I told you that those heads and severed limbs are not actually the real deal but made out of bread.

Kittiwat Unarrom from Th…

Boosted Caffeine – Starbucks Adds “Energy” To Drinks

(TrendHunter.com) There’s coffee, there’s espresso, and then there’s “energy” on the menu list of additives to get you powered up at Starbucks. They’ve added the option to enhance the caffeine in their already-stimulated beverages with shots of +Energy, a combination of ginseng, guarana and B vitamins, th…

Luxury Fastfood – Hot Ducks

(TrendHunter.com) It seems with every new day comes a new addition to the Luxury junk food category. Yesterday we marveled at the caviar burgers at Serdendipity3, and now another New York company is serving up duck hot dogs.

“Allow us to suggest D’Artagnan’s Duck Hot Dogs: three ounces of uncured, skinless, farm-ra…

Non-Dissolving Edible Packaging – Compost or Eat Your Containers

(TrendHunter.com) Let’s face it: current food packaging, on one hand, is useful to keep food fresher, but is wasteful. Think of all the plastic and polystyrene containers that are just tossed away after you bring food home to cook and eat. There is enough going to landfills as it is.

Edible packaging in itself i…

Suburban Free-Range Meat – Squirrels An Ethical Meal?

(TrendHunter.com) Are squirrels the new tofu? Apparently, the little rodents have recently earned themselves the reputation of being an ethical delicacy in the UK. “Suburban ‘free-range’ meat,” was what TreeHugger called it, and the Guardian described it as, “The ultimate ethical meal.”

We’ve mentioned before that t…

East & West Meet With Customization – Personalized Donut Fortune Cookies

(TrendHunter.com) Yes, culinary inventions that blend Asian and Western influences are alive and well… and of course, they have come a long way from the wonton self-packaging influence on the burrito.

The chocolate-covered fortune cookie is available with a white or dark chocolate coat, with optional sprinkles, ma…

Luxury Junk Food – Caviar Burgers at Serendipity3

(TrendHunter.com) You know you have a selective palette when you order a caviar burger. I did a quick Internet search which revealed the Caviar Burger is an actual menu item at Serendipity3, located in New York.

The same restaurant known for its $25,000 dessert does indeed serve such a luxury burger, complete with …

Billboards With Cut Out Models – Pessek Zman Chocolate Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a brilliant and unusual campaign to promote Israeli Pessek Zman chocolate bar (which means Time Out in Hebrew) that wittingly expresses the brand’s idea and slogan to “take a time out”.

The campaign uses posters that look like regular fashion ads, however the fashion models are missing. Pl…

Cut Out Model Billboards – Pessek Zman Chocolate Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a brilliant and unusual campaign to promote Israeli Pessek Zman chocolate bar (which means Time Out in Hebrew) that wittingly expresses the brand’s idea and slogan to “take a time out”.

The campaign uses posters that look like regular fashion ads, however the fashion models are missi…

Culinary Assistants – Interactive Digital Cooking Aid (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hannah Plevin designed a very convenient device she calls an Interactive Digital Cooking Aid. This is a foldable, wall-mounted device with a fully adjustable, removable screen and a scale which comes with a 2 kg handling capacity.

It allows you to download your favorite recipes from the internet a…

$1,000 Sushi – Foie Gras High Roller at Koi

(TrendHunter.com) I’m a passionate sushi connoisseur, but even I couldn’t fathom spending $1,000 on a roll. Apparently the chefs at Koi in New York didn’t have customers like me in mind when concocting the High Roller, an ultra luxury sushi roll stuffed with foie gras.

The outside of the roll is wrapped in langoust…