Powerful PSAs – Sexual Abuse (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Sexual abuse is not a light subject, and this powerful appropriately creepy and disturbing public service announcement video ad successfully delivers the message: “If sexually abused children never get help, they never outgrow their trauma.”

The ad is very effective in conveying the trauma that abu…

Fireplace in a Suitcase – Conmoto Travelmate

(TrendHunter.com) The Travelmate by Conmoto is a portable traveling fireplace. The Travelmate is a stylized suitcase with a glass pane that is held together by magnets. The gadget, designed by Studio Vertijet, produces smokeless fire and has a weather-proof powder coating. The fireplace weigh 25 kg and runs on bio-al…

In Car WiFi – Chrysler Turns Radios into Internet Ports

(TrendHunter.com) Chrysler will offer internet access later this year, making them the first car manufacturer to offer the feature.

The WiFi will available as an add-on to cars that are already built, and later will be part of the assembly line. Since it’s WiFi, the driver will have to have a wireless phone contrac…

Colored Flames – Rainbow Moments Tea Lights

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s another trendy way to upgrade and improve your home illumination. Give your living room an extraordinary lounge touch. It doesn’t have to involve installing expensive, fancy lights.

An at home Rainbow Moment can be as simple as putting up a few candles thanks to new innovations like the Col…

Recycled Tin Can Fashion – Ecoist Handbags Made of Pull Tabs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These attractive bags were made with recycled pull tabs from beverage cans. They have a nylon fabric liner and a zipper closure and they can be worn as part of a casual attire or as an accompanying accessory to an evening dress. The bags, which weigh 1.5 lbs, were made in Brazil by a women’s craft c…

Handwritten Art Sneakers – Reebok x Maeda Emoretion (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Famous graphic designer John Maeda has teamed up with Reebok for the beautiful Reebok x Maeda Emoretion.

Maeda drew inspiration from the 7th Law- emotion- from his book, The Laws of Simplicity where he urges us to embrace our natural desire for personal meaning in everything we do.

The design has…

Self-Knitting Lampshade – Sleeping Beauty by Nadine Sterk

(TrendHunter.com) I’m not sure how handy this light actually is unless you plan on starting a knitted-lampshade store. You see, the Sleeping Beauty Lamp knits a lampshade on its own, completing three rotations every hour!

Neat idea if you want your furniture to grow. Not so neat if you have a small place.

The des…

Dance Floor Aquariums – Sharks Swim Under Qua Bottle Lounge (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Qua Bottle Lounge has tapped into the obsession with extreme sports and exotic experiences involving wild animals. The Austin, Texas club found a way to bottle up and serve that adrenaline to their patrons on a nightly basis; beneath their glass dance floor is an aquarium filled with dangerous sea c…

Swarovski Crystal Fireplace – Justin Ladda Luxury

(TrendHunter.com) Austrian Swarovski crystals really are every where… even on fireplaces.

This fireplace was custom designed by artist Justin Ladda in a building from the late 19th century. The pit is easily accessed for cleaning and loading through the two doors in the form of bay windows. The red curtains are m…

Futuristic Surrealism Vodka Ads – Absolut World (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These might just be the most artistic and creative ads I have seen for a long while. The artistry and effort that was put into making them is very evident and would make even Salvador Dali proud.

Absolut Vodka released these new super creative ads as a promotion for their Absolut Machines interacti…

Hip Cape Town Hangouts – Afro Cool at Afro Coffee (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Afro chic, afro funky… Afro Coffee is all the rage in South Africa. Afro Coffee is a new brand of coffee and a cafe that brews true African coffee. As they say, “no colonial stuff”.

Not only is the coffee awesome, the cafe is the hangout in Cape Town right now. The owners pride themselves on mo…

Pillows With a Pulse – My Beating Heart (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) My Beating Heart is a soft, huggable heart with a soothing heartbeat you can feel, designed to help little ones over 3 to sleep and grown ups to relax and meditate.

The heartbeat rhythm was carefully designed and programmed using artificial intelligence and it models the human heartbeat in deep me…

Agent Provocateur’s Guantánamo Bay Protest – ‘Fair Trial My Arse’ Panties

(TrendHunter.com) Never one to shy away from controversy, Agent Provocateur’s co-founder Joe Corre thought of a creative protest message when he discovered that members of the U.K. human rights charity Reprieve had been accused of smuggling underwear to a prisoner held at Guantánamo Bay. And out came the “Fair Trial…

Engineless Gravity Racing Car – Mercedes-Benz Silbervogel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Mercedes-Benz Silbervogel was designed by Jakob Hirzel for the Xtreme Gravity Series in Irvine, California.

The automobile is a gravity racing car that has no engine. Its bionic shape and load-bearing carbon structure were designed to meet the challenges posed by the physical forces at play du…

Edible Cartoons – Face Food Bento Boxes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese bento box, or lunch box, dates back hundreds of years in Japanese history. The contemporary bento box has been influenced by pop culture elements such as movies, TV shows and manga.

The bento box is “Comprised of food crafted into visually creative, appealing and recognizable forms, a…

Rape Public Awareness Ads – Pepper Spray (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These creative rape public awareness ads from Thailand relay an important message. Girls & boys, always have a pepper spray ready in dangerous places.

The campaign smartly plays on the tag line “When they can’t see, they can’t hurt you” by blackening out the attacker through the range of the pepper…

3 Cups in One – Stacked! Coffee Cup (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You know, I get confused enough with the things modern designers come up with, but now there’s this stacked-up, three-handled, trompe l’oeil tower of cups. Supposedly the Stacked! Coffee Cup is comfortable in the hand and very amusing to the eye. Uh-Uh.

Living Cities – Nissan Qashqai Urbanproof Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If a city was living, if the actual building were capable of movement, it might look something like this new TV spot for the Nissan Qashqai.

The Urbanproof ads give Buenos Aires breath, the concrete interacts with the people, the architecture has a life of its own. The buildings play with the Qash…

Power Boats that Dive – Marion Hyper-Sub (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Marion Hyper-Sub is a submersible vehicle which also has the ability to run on the surface at great speed. Powerful, versatile and cost-efficient, the Hyper-Sub is billed as the world’s first true general-purpose submarine. Operating as a self-sufficient powerboat on the surface, and as a subm…

Cheap Petroleum Alternatives – Biomass Gas

(TrendHunter.com) A company says it will make ethanol for the U.S. at less than a buck a gallon. They will refine what’s known as biomass which is available for 65 cents per gallon. The technology uses low energy to make it efficient to produce the biomass which can be used to produce ethanol.

Ethanol currently use…