Cholesterol Screening for 2 Year Olds – Early Obesity Prevention (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Cholesterol screening tests are now being offered to toddlers as young as two years old. In addition, cholesterol drugs for children as young as 8 may soon be administered by doctors, to function as early…

Strangest Baby Names – From Celeb Babies to Search Engine Optimized Names (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Nicole Kidman, who recently named her new baby girl Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, is one of many parents giving their babies extremely unique names. Also this week, Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend Camila…

Kids Fashion Week – Dubai Puts Children on the Catwalk (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Kids Fashion Week, a Dubai Summer Surprises 2008 signature event, opened on July 3 at Dubai Festival City, a key sponsor of DSS 2008. The week-long fashion show features the participation of some of the…

Urban Basketball Innovations – Freestyle Horse (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Horse is a style of basketball that matches opponents shot for shot until the loser spells out HORSE. This video shows youths making incredible shots out on the street through dumpsters, over cars, into…

Baby Travel 2.0 – The ‘Tot Pod’ Concept for Samsonite (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Aldo Barreto, industrial design student from Ontario Canada, has designed this ultramodern baby car seat for competition for luggage company Samsonite. Barreto’s goal with this project was to, “Design…

Innovative Club Houses – The Sempachersee in Switzerland (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Every single golf club house I have been to, or even seen in magazines, looks like suburban bank lobby or funeral home. The design of the Golf Club Semparchersee in Switzerland is just awesome. The designers,…

Digitally Aged Super Man? – Making Seniors “Vroom” on Flickr

(TrendHunter.com) Oh my gosh. This has to be one of the best photo effects I’ve seen on Flickr. This photograph by artsy_T is aptly titled “Vroom” and features an old man with a walker who appears to be moving so fast,…

Pelvic Beauty & Fitness Boot Camp – The Phit Spa

(TrendHunter.com) Having problems keeping your ladybits ship shape for Fleet Week? The Times says NYC has opened the first spa for strength training in the pelvic area. Phit is a name they made up, standing for Pelvic…

Interactive Aquafaces – National Aquarium Ad Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The National Aquarium in Baltimore has a new ad campaign called “More Fun in Every Sense”. Fun is right, the set of five posters, created by advertising agency gkv, also of Baltimore, contain images…

Batman-Themed Toys – The Dark Knight Action Figures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As the July 18th theatrical release of the latest installment of the Batman franchise The Dark Knight draws near, the hype’s crescendo, not to mention the merchandising of toys, posters, and related movie…

The Cyberculture Movement – Are We Moving Towards Being ‘Borgs’? (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Although this trend has a relatively small following in the US, as of today, the interest in this subculture is getting more coverage and print as an up and coming piece of the underground culture network.…

Custom Birthing Soundtracks – Nicole Kidman’s Delivery Room Music (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Nicole Kidman is planning a musical birth for her baby with country crooner husband Keith Urban. The Australian couple has chosen a Nashville, Tenn. hospital as the ideal place for Kidman to deliver her…

Mass Public Breast Feeding – 100 Women in Rome Openly Nursed to Protest

(TrendHunter.com) Mothers in Italy staged a mass public breast feeding to make a political statement about the stigmatization of women who don’t shame themselves for nursing in front of others. Earlier this week, 100 women…

Celebrity Action Figures – Comic-Con Dolls (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Comic-Con is a multi-day event for fans of comic books, movie memorabilia and action figures. The 2008 event will be held in San Diego from July 23rd to the 27th. This year, as in previous ones, toy…

Controversial PR Stunts – Naughty Celeb Videos That Boosted Careers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It doesn’t matter what career you have, if you make a sex tape and leak it, the buzz about you will increase. For example, after Colin Ferrell tried to block the appearance of a tape via a court order,…

Seniors on the Catwalk – Yohji Yamamoto’s Paris Runway (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This seems to be the season of unlikely runway models.

Recently, Vivienne Westwood caused an uproar when she sent out beefy, tough-looking Roma gypsies on the Milan catwalks to model her 2009 menswear.…

23 Toys from the Past That Are Still Getting Love (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The following gallery will evoke the inner geek who has ever engaged in gaming, as it highlights some of the modern ways retro past times have been brought back. Scroll though and you’ll see how Lego,…

Optical Illusion Tic-Tac-Toe – The XO Game (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Created by the Peleg Design studio, “XO” is a new game that adds a twist to the classic game of tic-tac-toe. The game is composed of half-parts which are intact with their reflections. It’s a simple idea…

Underground Dance Phenomenons – Melbourne Shuffle is the New Moonwalk (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Melbourne shuffle is the new moonwalk. A dance that emerged during the ‘acid house’ or ‘rave’ era, the shuffle involves fast moving feet that seem to defy physics.

The Melbourne shuffle dance style…

South Korean B-Boys- Hip-Hop Breakdancing Phenomenon (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Breakdance, breaking, b-boying or b-girling is a street dance style that evolved as part of the hip hop movement among African American and Puerto Rican youths in the South Bronx of New York City during…