(TrendHunter.com) Southern California residents are gearing up for an earthquake in the likes of the recent devastating tremor in China. A new report released from the US Geological Survey and the California Geological…
(TrendHunter.com) Beijing has proposed a plan to install RFID tags on tickets to prevent those trying to enter with fake passes. It indicates the situation of the assigned seating and stores information like where the …
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re like me, you plaster your face against the airplane window whenever you’re getting close to landing in your destination city. A Flickr Video pool devoted to the moment of decent was created …
(TrendHunter.com) Kids in the MACCRAY School District in Minnesota are jumping for joy. The school district recently reduced their school week to four days, eliminating Monday and adding one hour of tutelage to each of…
(TrendHunter.com) This tree house restaurant is located on Highway 58 at the entrance of Onoyama Park in the south of Japan. The establishment, called Okinawa Tree House, is perched upon what looks like a real tree. Bu…
(TrendHunter.com) Just spotted: a Coke vending machine walking around outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo. Coca-Cola has sent oversized robot vending machines around Tokyo to pinch the heads of people who prefer a differe…
(TrendHunter.com) Tube travel in London can be really boring, but it was actually what inspired the concept of a new game, Animals on the Underground. I say new because it has just recently made it online in the form o…
(TrendHunter.com) McDonald’s Japan has started an innovative new Contactless Coupon loyalty and payment program that has been under development for nearly a year. The program started with 175 stores and will expand gradually to all of Japan’s 3,800 stores by 2009.
The mechanism utilizes Felica RFID technology fou…
(TrendHunter.com) You dream of being serenaded in a gondola on your way to a romantic hotel in Italy, but the closest you’ve been is the Venetian in Vegas because you just can’t pull together the funds.
The good folks at the Hotel Cipriani know that while the Vegas Strip is great, it pales in comparison to the real…
(TrendHunter.com) Sotheby’s estimate that Triptych, created by the late Francis Bacon would fetch $70 million was surpassed by over $16 million. The sale of Triptych became, “the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doom-sayers who had predicted that the art market would fa…
(TrendHunter.com) Google Earth is as entertaining as it is informative. In this feature, we profile some of the interesting Google Earth innovations and applications.
People are using the Google Maps for everything from finding addresses to creating giant-scale art projects and advertising campaigns.
Take a look …
(TrendHunter.com) There is a growing fad in Japan to have your MP3 player, cell phone or any other personal technology, designed by your favorite celebrity. A number of pop singers, actors and other famous people have signed on to design products that are marketed to the growing number of young, celebrity-obsessed co…
(TrendHunter.com) Take a look at this new advertising campaign from Brazilian business newspaper, Gazeta Mercantil. These print ads are sure to cause controversy, as they show the Dollar, Euro and Yen displaying important events that took place in each area of the world.
“For the U.S., that means 9/11, pot, oil, wa…
(TrendHunter.com) I have never seen a more moving animation than this PSA entitled “Burma Viral,†from the beautiful imagery and soul-touching music to the potent message. The 90 second clip was created by Shilo for MTV and Ogilvy to bring awareness to Burma, or Myanmar.
The animated public service announcement…
(TrendHunter.com) My father, a German living in Beijing, sent me a beautiful article from Bild.de, the online version of a popular German newspaper. It was a moving piece that was supplemented with touching photos like those in the gallery. It got me thinking how a natural disaster can leave over 42,000 individuals k…
(TrendHunter.com) Karl Fisch created Shift Happens, the most favourited presentation on SlideShare. In April 2007, Michael Arnold got the high school teacher’s permission to take it to the next level by turning it into a video.
Fisch discusses global shifts occurring and the impact globalization will have on educ…
(TrendHunter.com) While it’s hard for most of us to image, not everyone can afford to have their hair washed and trimmed, and that includes children. In eastern India, a new initiative is seeing around 4,000 barbers volunteer their services to school-aged children who could otherwise not afford a hair cut.
They’ll b…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re a rockstar traveling through Amsterdam, where are you going to stay? You could book a room at the Backstage Hotel, a themed accommodation in the Netherlands.
It’s rumored that a few pop and rock bands have already stayed there, so if that’s true, it would be ideal if you’re looking to ho…
(TrendHunter.com) Japan has vending machines that dispense cigarettes, and just like similar machines in Europe, they provoke issues with underage children buying tobacco. To help prevent access to cigarettes by minors, Japan has come up with a new sensory technology that is meant to detect the age of the buyer by me…
(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…
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