(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) Those plastic orange construction fences are brightly coloured because they are meant to catch your attention. Alas, they are also easily spotted as litter in fields and construction sites. Fortunately, some of it has been recycled to become ORNJ bags, really handy totes designed by Detroit based ar…
(TrendHunter.com) Functional art by This Into That includes bookshelves and cases made of, well, old books. They’re handcrafted by Jim Rosenau who was raised in a house with about 5,000 books. His thematic book furniture idea came after reading an essay called “Books as Furniture†by Nicholson Baker. Some of hi…
(TrendHunter.com) You need ear protection, head protection, and you should probably wear body armor too. Bob Maddox, an artist and cabinet maker from Oregon, invented the jet-powered bicycle and started selling them on eBay. Even he is afraid to see just how fast his creations can go. He imagines they can go up to 75…
(TrendHunter.com) Who doesn’t want one? Lamborghini created a video which is climbing the viral charts like wild fire to entice people with dollops of cash to buy the Gallardo LP 560-4. It’s about time they released a video that matches the magnificence of the cars.
The ad showcases the Lamborghini not only as a ca…
(TrendHunter.com) Get this! There is a product out there called the Fake TV. It is an electronic gizmo cube featuring an array of LED lights that flicker. That’s it. It is supposed to mimic the ambiance of a late night television to the would-be thief. They were thinking about breaking in but, won’t now because someo…
(TrendHunter.com) The world’s first cancer sniffing dog is set to save more lives. The black Labrador known as Marine is to be cloned in South Korea at the end of this month.
Marine was first trained to sniff human cancer cells in the St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Centre, Japan. Unfortunately, Marine c…
(TrendHunter.com) The Nose Pouch, as pictured here, is clearly a silly invention, intended for the insanely rich cold sufferer.
Armed with the built-in snot pocket, the second best benefit of this product is that it helps prevent the spread of germ particles. The best benefit is that you can brag about it to your…
(TrendHunter.com) Looking like a flattened Batmobile, the jet powered Flatmobile is set to claim the World’s Lowest/Flattest Vehicle record with a height of 48cm (19â€).
The Flatmobile is designed and built by Perry Watkins using shells from two vintage Hillman Imps. Its jet engine is based on a gas turbine je…
(TrendHunter.com) Not to offend Hello Kitty fans, but I think that Hello Kitty weddings are unquestionably tacky.
A Japan-based hotel chain, Daiichi Hanyu, is offering professionally-themed Hello Kitty weddings. In a not-so-innovative naming attempt, they titled the theme, “Princess Kitty Wedding.”
The couple is es…
(TrendHunter.com) A Hello Kitty fan has created this exhaust pipe to express their ultimate devoted to the anime brand. Thankfully, the officially Hello Kitty car is now discontinued, but this is too weird and quite scary. It’s interested what people choose to do with their cars, time, and their lives.
I am not sur…
(TrendHunter.com) From smart phones to smart cars, it seems that everything is getting a little more brainy. While most pet owners simply install a microchip tracking device in their furry (or feathered) friends, a Japanese family thought it would be wise to teach their African grey parrot, Yosuke, to recite his name…
(TrendHunter.com) Kaga fishing lures are a Japanese folk art which some say embodies the samurai spirit. The featured designs are from a Japanese family firm called Meboso Hachirobei Shoten which has been in business for 430 years! Their latest craft is transforming them into wearable pieces of art in the form of jew…
(TrendHunter.com) Castor Canadensis, a group of Canadian craftsmen and artists, has a solution for all those defunct tubular fluorescent tubes. They merged several together around some incandescent light-bulbs to form what they’ve called a Recycled Tube Light.
It is a great way to reuse these old lights which have …
(TrendHunter.com) What clothing brand has a blue hot dog with ears for a logo? Ironically, a very expensive one. Limoland is “a luxury streetwear brand for prosperious people” with a web site that I couldn’t get to load correctly. The clothes are made of Japanese cottons and the finest cashmere. This pink shirt is on…
(TrendHunter.com) We were excited about the first $100 hamburger, then astounded at the $5,000 Fleur Burger at Mandalay Bay in Vegas. But after the caviar burger and the $170 Kobe beef burger from Burger King this $175 burger from a New York eatery lacks appeal.
It’s not just exciting anymore. When something become…
(TrendHunter.com) With crude oil prices now well over $100 per barrel, filling that gas guzzling SUV is really hurting the pocket. If that’s not enough, perhaps you need another reminder of the diminishing supplies and voracious global demand. This tea set is designed by Designkommando (Germany) with a gold finish, o…
(TrendHunter.com) If you ever wanted to live permanently in an ocean-based city, the Seasteading Institute could help you, if they get their way. The organization was founded by Google’s Patri Friedman and former Sun Microsystems programmer, Wayne Gramlich. The ambitious project to set up deep water city states – com…
(TrendHunter.com) Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain has just launched an online campaign to bring back the office tea trolley, a much missed tradition in the UK.
The campaign has a dedicated micro site which allows visitors to create and sign an office petition, view campaign videos and even win a tea trolley for the office (a…
(TrendHunter.com) After all these years, one of my childhood curiosities is finally being addressed in the form of this time lapse video of a starfish walking.
I grew up playing in tidepools on the west coast, and observing starfish was a part of my summer routine. Regardless of how long I studied them, I never see…
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