Travelling in Luxury – Japan Airlines Introduces First Class Suites (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Japan Airlines is introducing luxury suites in first class cabins on the Tokyo – New York flights aboard their new 777-300ER aircraft starting August 1, 2008.

The suites are ‘ultra-sweet’ with…

Mood Boosting Drinks – ViB Chill-N Vacation in a Bottle (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) First Trendhunter.com saw the ‘Anti-Energy’ Drank beverage, and now we’ve found another canned beverage geared to slide you into a mellow mood. ViB — it stands for ‘Vacation in a Bottle’ (although …

Auto Part Integration Ads – Clever Bus Billboards (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Giant, slow-moving, buses in crowded urban areas make great, high-visibility ad-spaces. The creators of the following ads obviously understands this. The large, bright decals along with the moving exh…

Pouring Milk in Fields – European Dairy Farmer Boycotts (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Using the featured cow sculpture as their mascot, German farmers are protesting milk prices, organizing a boycott that has left shelves almost completely devoid of dairy products. Dairy farmers are do…

LGBT Pride Alcohol – Absolut Colors (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Absolut has huge variations in the Vodka they sell, from unique packaging to unique flavours for every occasions. They’re constantly innovating. Their latest mission? They are looking for people who a…

Age Limits for Books – Authors Fight Age Banding

(TrendHunter.com) Age-specific movie ratings have been standard practice for decades, but the censorship technique could soon be seen in books.

Just like movies, publishers would implement parental guidance suggestio…

Abandoned Real Estate Bus Tours – Long Island Foreclosure Tours (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A unique bus tours company is capitalizing on the hard hit American real estate market. The Long Island Foreclosure Tours take patrons on excursions to homes which have been abandoned, and often vanda…

Olympic Brand Battles – Nike & Adidas for Beijing 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Nike and Adidas are fighting to dress China’s 2.6 billion feet, both brands taking advantage of the upcoming Beijing Olympics. The two leading sportswear companies are going head to head to deck the C…

X-Ray Travel Bags – Skooba TSA-Friendly Laptop Bag

(TrendHunter.com) Back in March, the Transportation Security Administration asked luggage manufacturers to come up with a checkpoint-friendly laptop bag. Currently, all laptops, DVD players and similar electronic devic…

4 Day School Weeks – Stay-Home Mondays Conserve Fuel

(TrendHunter.com) Kids in the MACCRAY School District in Minnesota are jumping for joy. The school district recently reduced their school week to four days, eliminating Monday and adding one hour of tutelage to each of…

Econobox Comeback – Gas Prices Drive Demand For Retro Eco-Cars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While all the giant automotive manufacturers are feverishly developing fancy new eco-friendly, green and hybrid cars, another trend is quietly brewing: used econoboxes from the ’80s and ’90s! That’s right!

Remember the Geo Metro, Ford Festiva, Toyota Tercel or, my personal favourite, the Honda C…

Saving Gas Money For Status Bikes – Rocketing Gas Prices Spur Sales (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) One of the top stories on Yahoo! News this week was the onslaught of bicycle sales in the wake of $4 per gallon gasoline. Adults are buying bikes for the first time since they were children and bicycle shop owners couldn’t be happier, many of them doubling their monthly sales projections. Re-born ri…

Mothers Day Tech – AT & T Floral Cellphone Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Gorgeous flowers open up to reveal Samsung’s cell phones in this creative Mother’s Day ad by AT & T. The flowers look like a mixture of glass and real flowers. They are just stunning. The song in the ad written by Lupe Fiasco is called Daydreamin’ and is performed by Jill Scott.

Kudos to 1stAveMac…

Personal Jets Near Mainstream – Cirrus’ The-Jet (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Next time you take the family for a zoom in the sky (wouldn’t it be nice to do that every weekend?), leave your old Cesna in the hangar, and get them on board The-Jet by Cirrus.

Crafted from alloy and composite materials, this jet accommodates seven people. It has a special two-door facility simil…

Origami Ads – Maone Bank Origami Money (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The origami in the gallery is part of an ad campaign created by DCS advertising agency for Maone Bank of Brazil. The campaign, which uses images and shapes of animals, is supposed to illustrate that ideally, your money should multiply in conjunction with your family.

I love anything origami. I t…

Chinese Oreos – Kraft Reformulates Cookie For New Market (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Although extremely popular in North America, the Oreo cookie proved not to be so well received when it was first introduced to the Chinese market. It turns out that the Chinese generally found the original version of the cookie too sweet, the traditional round shape was very different than the more …

Round-the-World Green Flights – Solar-Cell Hy-Bird (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Hy-Bird, a hydrogen-powered electric airplane that gets 10% of its power through solar-cells, is made of super-lightweight (and expensive) carbon fibre. The French company behind it, Lisa Airplanes, states that the power system will allow the plane to circumnavigate the globe in 3,000 km stages.…

Eco-Friendly Sailing Wine – Languedoc Wine Carried by Sailboats (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This month, 60,000 bottles of wine from the southern Languedoc region of France being to Dublin, Ireland in a 19th-century barque, saving 8.324 kg (18,375 lb) of carbon, an estimated 140 grams (4.9 oz) of carbon per bottle, compared to the regular mode of shipment.

The 52-metre (170-feet), three-m…

Noise Awareness Billboards – AEG Eloectrolux Advertises The Decibel Level (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In a global billboard campaign by AEG-Electrolux for Noise Awareness, AEG has installed billboards with built in decibel meters so that passerbys can see the noise level. The boards have been installed in major European cities like London, Madrid, Berlin and Milan. However there were some interestin…

Website for Ethical Fashion – The BBC’s ‘Thread: Fashion Without Victims’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) launched an ethical fashion ezine named “Thread”. The online magazine seeks to address issues many fashion-conscious and environmentally-responsible people constantly grapple with such as the damage sustained by the environment due to irresponsible and unethica…