Personal Paparazzi – Hire Your Own Stalker with MethodIzaz (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Want to know what you look like in public? At all times, in every situation? Hire your own personal paparazzi.

They’ll stalk you wherever you go, so you won’t have to annoy your friends with, “Can you take another photo of me?” when you’re not even on vacation or doing something cool. You know, th…

Private Spaces – New Service Lets You Book an Entire Hotel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Want real luxury? Book the entire deluxe hotel to yourself. As in ‘no other guests’ You know there are people that book whole hotels for their stay. Here’s a place where you can do it online. Imagine, your assistant doesn’t even have to talk to a person. You can have complete solitude. Hotels are …

Mega Cities – World Hubs in 2025 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The globe is expanding rapidly, and as it does, more mega cities (populations of 8 million+) are beginning to develop. People are drawn to city cores because, unless their business is online, the majority of jobs are found in these populated hubs. The World Resource Institute thinks that by 2025, th…

Top 11 Man-Made Island Paradises (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Fake islands created by man don’t have to look or feel artificial; in fact, there are dozens of beautiful paradises around the world that offer nothing but highly habitable land masses.

Most offer communities where luxe living is the norm and several are focused on environmental sustainability. A …

Meatless Meat – Semi-Living Food

(TrendHunter.com) This may look like a preschooler’s art project but, it is in fact a hunk of meat. Well, not meat exactly but, not… not meat, either. Scientists in Australia have created a ‘semi-living’ food. This project uses a tissue engineering technique to grow cells from living animals into bodyless animal pa…

Man-Made Seychelles Paradise – Eden Island (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The modern world offers a stunning array of man-made islands, but although most of the focus has been on Dubai, Spain, Tokyo and Russia, another gorgeous paradise named Eden Island resides in the Seychelles archipelago region in the Indian Ocean.

While the man-made islands most people think of are…

Geeky Hygiene Products – ICQ Toothpaste & Gmail Soap

(TrendHunter.com) Hey want to get geeky clean? Then try the new ICQ toothpaste and it’s minty freshness. How about some Russian made Gmail soap? I’m sure the trademarks have all been cleared by the Google boys. But that’s all geek to me. Use these products and the geek-god/goddess in you will be released.

Public Transit 2.0 – Florence TAV Station (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Florence TAV Station in Italy will make high-speed, long distance trains travelling through the city a thing of the past.

When it opens to the public in 2010, trains will pass through a seven kilometer tunnel, with the entrance at Campo di Marte station and the exit at Castello. The existing r…

Next Big Thing in Music? – Stars of SXSW 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) South by Southwest (SXSW) is one of the world’s largest music festivals that takes place in Austin, TX. It’s also the hatching ground of many artists, or where they get their big break. A few of the artists we’ve had our eye on at Trend Hunter have now been hailed as the Next Big Thing after their p…

Rate My Cop – An Outlet for All Those Speeding Tickets?

(TrendHunter.com) HOO… whatcha gonna do, when they come for you? I’m going on ratemycop.com and give them some negative feedback, that will show ’em. Just like eBay, this site is helpful if you plan on doing business with the local constable and want to make sure you are treated fairly. Of course, the mounties don’…

BFF Search Via TV – I Wanna Be Paris’ New Best Friend! (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Paris Hilton will be staring in a new TV series that puts an interesting spin on the regular reality shows. Instead of a dating show, MTV will have her looking for a new best friend.

On I Wanna be Paris’ New Best Friend! Hilton will be choosing between 20 women and men, who want a chance to auditi…

Bohemians-in-Exile – Buenos Aires (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Looking for rich culture but can’t decide between chic Parisian-style art and cuisine, more intense features of a bull fighting city like Barcelona, or the fashions and clubs of LA? Don’t choose any of those. Add some red wine and sweaty tango to your day dream, and you’ve got the pumping beat of Bu…

Love Vacation – Finnish MP Proposes Week Long “Love Vacation” Law (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) All countries should pass this kind of law. Tommy Tabermann, Finnish MP, has proposed a law for couples to be granted a seven-day “love vacation”. In this super busy world, couples often drift apart when time together is at a premium. With the purpose of getting their relationship back on track and …

Green Water Fronts – Chicago Eco-Bridge (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Windy City dyes their river green for St. Patrick’s Day, but that’s not all that goes green. A two mile bridge in the Monroe Harbor will cement Chicago’s position as the Greenest City in the U.S. It will provide space for wind turbines to provide economic value to a recreational source. Chicago …

Chocolate Pencils – Dessert Comes with “Pencil Sharpeners”

(TrendHunter.com) If you are a chocolate addict, this is the ultimate dessert to crave for. The chocolate pencils come in different cocoa blends with variable intensity and you can create the right chocolate dose for the addict in you. This innovative product is the result of the collaboration between Japanese archit…

Top 10 Design and the Elastic Mind Exhibits – MoMA 2008 (SUPER GALLERY) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) There is a currently an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City that is creating buzz around the world. The exhibit, Design and the Elastic Mind, is a combination of art, science, technology and design and includes influential projects from around the world.

We’ve featured a few indiv…

Next Gen Baby Naming – SMS Language Influences Name Choice

(TrendHunter.com) The mystery of texting has brought with it, a unique language known to the “uncool” as SMS language. This language uses abbreviations for certain sounds and replaces traditional ways of spelling words with more intuitive ones – “y” instead of “i” and “k” instead of “c”. Thus, new ways of spelling ba…

Faux Police Cruisers – Tranformer Fan’s Mustang Fakes Authority (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen people faking status, but it looks like the hip thing to do in Nevada is faking authority. If you ever see a cop in a 2007 Mustang Cruiser in Sin City, don’t let him pull you over; chances are, he’s not an officer.

Jessie Vigil from Las Vegas painted his black and white Mustang to look …

3D LCD Table Menu – TEC Tobidasu Menu (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen a variety of futuristic dining approaches, like Baggers, the waiterless restaurant in Germany, and now we see the TEC-designed pop-up Tobidasu Menu built into restaurant tables.

Customers sitting at the table needn’t interact with servers, saving the restaurants money and eliminating co…

Eco Friendly Cleaning – Method (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I’ve been using Method’s line of environmentally friendly cleaning products for about two years now, and never really considered how cutting edge the company really is, both in the product and the company’s branding. They line, which also includes body care items, is biodegradable, all natural and c…