Blogging on the High Seas with Carnival – John Heald’s Bloggers Cruise (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Joining the increase in big companies embracing the blogosphere is Carnival who has officially announced the first-ever blogger’s cruise.

Carnival has embraced blogs for a while, their Carnival Freedom Cruise Director, John Heald, has kept a regular blog for a while now, so when the cruise line an…

An Experience as a Gift – Smartbox Leisure Activity Vouchers

(TrendHunter.com) It’s your best friend’s birthday and you have no idea on what to give her/him as a present this time? Let she/he choose an experience with a Smartbox.

Smartbox offers a solution to this lack of ideas: it is a gift package entitling the owner to a leisure activity: a Ferrari car driving, pampering i…

Web Jargon Explained: Geotagged Photos (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Geotagging means adding geographical coordinates to something (in this case photos) usually aided by a GPS. Looking at photos on a map and knowing exactly where they were taken literally adds dimension to the experience especially if it’s someplace you’re going to visit or would love to visit bu…

Retro Travelling Part II – Vintage Airstream Caravan Holidays (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you were looking for a warm and friendly place with that retro feeling in the air in which to spend your holidays, Airstream Europe is the place for you. What can make you chill out better than a bit of time in a vintage caravan in rural France?

Airstream Europe offers 10 different vintage Airst…

Retro Travelling – Samsonite Fashionaire Collection Relaunched (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Samsonite Black Label has recently reissued its original 1960s Fashionaire luggage collection, which was one of the hottest travel collections of the Sixties. Samsonite showed then for the first time that luggage could also be fashionable, as well as functional.

The full collection, which is a cel…

Biotech Company Clones Embryos from Human Skin Cells

(TrendHunter.com) A recent biotech breakthrough enables the creation of embryos from skin cells, which are genetic copies of the donor. This breakthrough by scientists at Stemagen Corp holds the promise of custom-made embryonic stem cell medical treatment. Medical researchers believe that stem cell therapy has the …

Fisker Karma Hybrid – Star of NAIAS Detroit 2008? (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) From the man that designed the Aston Martin DB9 and BMW Z8, the Karma rings all the bells. Henrik Fisker seems to have achieved his goal of founding ‘green American premium sports car company’ with Fisker Automotive, Inc. The Karma, powered by a four-cylinder gasoline engine in combination with …

Nordic Metro Art Installation – The Tunnel of Light Escalator (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Escalators generally aren’t considered a source of entertainment… unless of course you enjoy the immaturity of running against the natural direction of the stairs. This funky Norwegian escalator, however, doubles as an art installation, and is a visually delightful light show.

The video shows The…

Couch Surfing For Euro 08 – Sleep-In (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Couch surfing, the act of sleeping on a stranger’s sofa while traveling, is becoming an internationally accepted type of travel accommodation. Spinning off the trend are niche couch surfing projects like Sleep-In, a website that lets soccer fans both find and offer a couch during Euro 08.

Unlike j…

Radical Elopement – Double Proxy Weddings

(TrendHunter.com) Are proxy weddings the future of matrimonial services?

By proxy I mean either bride or groom, is unable to attend the ceremony, but the wedding takes place anyway. Someone usually takes the place of the missing person. A double proxy wedding is when neither shows.

One army couple took the proxy w…

Magical Luxury Water – Madonna Spends $10,000 a Month on Kabbalah Water

(TrendHunter.com) At $5.00 a bottle, Madonna is currently spending $10,000 USD per month drinking Chernobyle water, and according the British Government and the Department of Trade and Industry, she also believes this magical water can used to treat radioactive material. Madonna and Guy Ritchie are devote followers o…

Eco-Tourism Falls To New York – Olafur Eliasson Waterfalls Will Grace City

(TrendHunter.com) New York will get four giant waterfalls during the summer as a city art project and tourism draw. NYC tourism got a huge boost when Christo put his panels in Central Park. Seeing a great opportunity, the city commissioned Danish artist Olafur Eliasson to create the waterfalls. The waterfalls will fa…

Extraordinary Documentaries – 2008 Sundance Film Festival (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Robert Redford, Academy Award-winning actor, motion picture director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist and philanthropist began the Sundance Institute in 1984. Its annual Sundance Film Festival is in its 24th year and opened this week in Park City, UT. The 11-day event, which runs Janu…

Music on the Road – Singing Streets Tested in Japan (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In the land of Harajuku girls and sushi now the streets can sing. Well, kind of.

The members of the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute, which work with cryogenic science and research under microgravity environment amongst others, scraped markings along three roads in central and northern Japan …

Dubai Shopping Festival 2008 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Dubai Shopping Festival 2008 will be an extraordinary event in the city where everything is possible.

The Lexus Mega Raffle, one of the most extravagant raffle draws in DSF 2008, has already got visitors and residents buying tickets in huge numbers ahead of the festival opening. Organised in c…

Products Hand-Picked By Animals – Monkey Picked Tea (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re into the idea of drinking tea that has been hand(?) (paw?) picked by monkeys from rare wild Chinese tea trees, and are willing to pay $25 for 57g (about 2oz) for the experience, well here you go.

Could Monkey Picked Tea be the beginning of a hand-picked-by-animals trend? Will armies of C…