(TrendHunter.com) Japanese meat products manufacturer, Ito Ham, is trying to corner the market on the whole ‘high school girl’ image. They are actually trying to apply for the trademark rights. Their plans? A ‘high school girl’ line of meat pies, gyoza dumplings, pizza, and curry. I don’t get it and maybe that’s the …
(TrendHunter.com) It’s surprising the crowd surrounding this peculiar urban aquarium installation isn’t bigger. The fish tank, designed by Benedetto Bufalino, was installed inside a phone booth in Lyon, France.
It’s fascinating by day, but at night when darkness sets it, the obscurity it adds to the streets is surre…
(TrendHunter.com) What is flexible, sturdy, costs practically nothing, gets thrown around, and is taken for granted? If you think that cardboard is basically useless, think again.
When “Cartonist†Bertrande Durand-Jenny created her atelier Les Cartonnistes Associés in 2003 in Paris, everyone else was either re…
(TrendHunter.com) The perfect excuse for being late for work has inadvertently been created by the architect and interior design team at the Penson Group. This proposed headquarter, called the Vestry, of a major UK company comes with a layer of green grass that disguises it from view. The layer of grass and hedges on…
(TrendHunter.com) Liverpool, England, is striving to become a global tourist hot-spot with the grand opening of a Beatles-themed hotel called Hard Days Night. The hotel features themed suites, a Yellow Submarine jukebox, basement bar, European restaurant, and 110 rooms starting at rates of $340 a night. Lennon and M…
(TrendHunter.com) Football games. Motorcycle rides. Construction sites. These are the activities that Americans think of when they think of helmets. This is what makes the following Japanese product so unique – a collapsible earthquake helmet. Tatamet helmets are made to protect people from the very real threat of a …
(TrendHunter.com) When you think of Norway (if you ever have, that is), you would probably think of rocky fjords, cold weather, warm people, and an abundance of very lucrative goods like fish and oil. Most would not think of the architecture or designs of the Scandinavian country.
The Snow Home, as I like to call i…
(TrendHunter.com) Negative words are not exactly a good thing to expose sick patients to. Serbia has decided to implement a new rule banning gossip from all hospitals in the country. They’ve also said they wouldn’t tolerate rudeness, grouchy moods. The staff were also prohibited from accepting brides (gifts, money) i…
(TrendHunter.com) The world’s biggest Nespresso boutique is now part of one of the most famous avenues on the planet, the Champs-Elysées.
With its 1500 square meters (16,150 square feet) of space on two levels, the “Star†Boutique invites Parisians and international visitors to indulge in high-end pleasures …
(TrendHunter.com) The Mind Chair is the creation of London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank and is an amazing chair that utilizes sensory substitution technology developed in the 1960s to send and display high-definition moving imagery into the mind of the person seated in it. The design uses a standard plastic…
(TrendHunter.com) In the small town of Swindon, South England, Clubbers are being handed party bags containing essential items in order to protect them throughout their hedonistic evening. The kits contain a bottle of water to prevent dehydration, lollipops to raise blood sugar level as it has been proven low blood …
(TrendHunter.com) Need to use the restroom while you are on a long drive in Finland? You better have a mobile phone on you!
In order to fight back against vandalism, the Finnish Road Administration has started deploying this January a system which allows travellers to open the doors to roadside toilets only by send…
(TrendHunter.com) A disturbing and controversial new exhibition is taking place in Liverpool, UK displaying genuine skin tissue in sculptures- and as if that was not enough, Sk-interfaces at FACT have included thought-provoking items such as a tiny coat made from human and rodent skin that will grow over the course o…
(TrendHunter.com) How far will reality shows go? Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, will present a show based on the BBC reality show “The Week the Women Went”.
Recent government statistics show that 70 percent of Canadian households are run by women. The majority of these women also hold full-time jobs.
In…
(TrendHunter.com) The global movement to go greener has swept every industry, including tourism. More and more we’ve been hearing about sustainable travel, climate change tourism and eco vacations.
If envirotravel is in the cards for you, you make want to pick up one of the chicest eco tour guide books I’ve com…
(TrendHunter.com) Japanese folks evidently like snow. There are a number of fairs and festivals that celebrate the frozen white stuff – the Sapporo Snow Festival, the Lake Tazawa Snow Festival, and the Kanda Yuki-Daruma Fair, to name a few. At one fair, they even trucked in 70 tons of snow. These pics show just how c…
(TrendHunter.com) Google is rumoured to be launching its own mobile phone in collaboration with Dell. Google, falling through with its rumoured launch last year for an iPhone Competitor (the GPhone), has mustered up some muscle and is said to be announcing its plan alongside Dell at the 3GSM telecoms conference next …
(TrendHunter.com) Sometimes there are things in movies that are so spectacular that they become real products. That is what defictionalization is: when a fictitious product becomes a real one.
Brawndo, “the thirst mutilator” is an energy drink that has become defictionalized.
“It first emerged in the blackly com…
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s your chance to take action and show the leaders of the world that you care and are deeply concerned about the wellbeing of our planet. All it takes is one hour of your time and doesn’t require you to do anything but flick off your lights.
On March 29, 2008 @ 8 p.m. the World Wildlife Fo…
(TrendHunter.com) This creative beer label map differentiates the American states by depicting each region as a branded beer bottle label from that state.
It’s pretty neat to see the origins, particularly of some of the most popular labels that are seen internationally. Maybe I don’t drink enough beer, or haven’t t…
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