Instant Tea by Twisting Bottle Cap – Matcha Tea With A Twist (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Just by twisting the air-tight cap, 1.4 grams of high-grade green tea, Kyoto matcha is released into the mineral water, serving up fresh instant tea, with no added chemicals or preservatives. In the same manner, CIC Co. also offers health drinks like Ukon (tumeric) and Aoijiro (kale juice). I’m not …

Science Stopping Lawsuit – Huge Atom Smasher Could Destroy World (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A Hawaii man with a background in nuclear physics is asking a court to stop scientists before they destroy us all. Walter F. Wagner and his colleague Luis Sancho really have filed a federal lawsuit, which you can read on the link, in order to stop work on the Large Hadron Collider, on the Franco-Swi…

America and Europe Linked by Tunnel? – The Alaska to Russia Tunnel Rumor

(TrendHunter.com) There are persistent rumors that a tunnel is being planned that will link Alaska with the Chutoka region of Russia. “The drill will be built by Germany’s Herrenknecht AG and it will the first drill capable of boring a four-lane tunnel through the 55-mile wide Bering Strait” says newlaunches.com.

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Saving Lives – Cell Phone With Defibrillator (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It may be just a concept right now, but the cell phone defibrillator would feature electrodes in the buttons that would jolt the heart back to a regular beat when pressed to the someone’s chest. It would also contain a heart monitor for identifying problems and GPS tracking once the defibrillator is…

8 International Black Outs – Earth Hour 2008 (SUPER GALLERY) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) All around the world today, voluntary black outs will be experienced, or have already occured, as people flick off their lights and power down their electronics. The global movement stems from inspiration by last year’s event in Sydney, Australia in which 2.2 million people participated.

After gath…

Controversial Games – Miss Bimbo Plays With Diet Pills, Gets Boobs Jobs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Our young women don’t have enough to worry about it seems. A Web site in England is causing a stir, upsetting many parents and others.

MissBimbo.com is a “game” of fashion and hairstyles, and it also offers breast enlargements and diet pills. The site lets users to create a character using credit …

Modernizing Chinese Festivals – Studio Leung Printable Offerings (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The 1st day of the 5th solar term is the Qingming for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime and to tend to the graves of departed ones. The Qingming(Clear Bright) Chinese Festival is on the 15th day after the Spring Equinox occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. Duri…

Pope Cancels St Patricks Day

(TrendHunter.com) According to the Catholic Church in the UK, if you are celebrating St Patrick’s Day as usual today, you’re making a BIG mistake.

Normally marked by a giant celebration on the 17th of March, St Patrick’s Day is actually an opportunity for Christians to remember the patron saint of Ireland. A certai…

Naughty Film Celebrates Religious Festival – Playboy TV for St Patricks Day (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Nice to see Playboy TV supporting St Patrick’s day – a traditionally religious festival – by making their own film using strategically placed shamrocks. Not sure if this technically counts as porn but it’s not far off.

“Playboy model Sasha Singleton looks great in green, has the luck of the Irish, …

First Catholic Church Opens in Qatar – Sign of the Times (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This weekend, with the blessings of that nation’s emir, 5,000 faithful will celebrate Our Lady of the Rosary’s historic consecration as the first catholic church in Doha, Qatar. Yet there is no cross, no bell, no steeple or sign because some Muslim people have deemed it as offensive and the parish p…

Controversial Bath Bombs for Charity – Lush Guantanamo Bay ‘Bombs’

(TrendHunter.com) Knowing Lush and their ethics as I do, I honestly believe this was NOT a PR stunt, but that the beauty and soap company was simply trying to raise money and awareness for a good charity.

Lush Cosmetics have started making bath bombs to raise money for Reprieve which campaigns to raise awareness of …

Religious Fashion – Stylish Burqas (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Muslim women wear burqas over their usual clothing as a sign of their righteousness, covering them from head to ankle. Marked Moskova in Norway thinks that he can influence muslim women to show style with their burqas. He also has the idea that non-muslim women might adapt this style too. As with mo…

Female Cadets in the Middle East – Iran After the Islamic Revolution (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Most women in religious conservative Iran dress in the traditional burqa, and generally speaking occupy roles that were assigned to them hundreds of years ago. But the female police officers who began training in 2003, display some real bad-ass skills. This is the first crop of female cadets since t…

Mile-High Eco-Tower – 500 Floor London Building (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Here is another plan for a super-high skyscraper, this time in Europe’s very own London.

The eco-friendly building, which will be 500 stories high, could house 100,000 non-height-fearing people as well as, schools, hospitals, and stores. The unique aspect to this design, which will be situated in …

24K Gold Paint Job – Modified Fiat 500 Pepita (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This modified Fiat 500 Pepita luxury car from Italy is painted with 24k gold and allows you to customize the interior with crocodile, snake, shark, skate or lizard lather.

For 60,000 Euros, you can choose from a wide variety of precious stones with which to embed the gearshift, hand brake, and ped…

San Francisco 2108 – Hydro-Net City Of The Future (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Futurists have nothing to lose – they can let their imaginations run wild and get publicity for many ideas and creations that will never see the light of day, like those who said that humans would fly in the 21st century. And here is another example of the future can’t-lose guessing game that imagin…

Canada’s Biggest Sleepover – Dove Sponsors PJ Party for Self-Esteem

(TrendHunter.com) On June 7, 2008 thousands of girls between the ages of 8 and 14 across Canada will be getting together for the largest one night sleepover in Canadian history.

The good people over at Dove want to help boost the self-esteem of young girls across the country by having them log into their website at …

Extreme Climate Change Protest – Greenpeace Jumps On Airplane (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Greenpeace has stepped up, perhaps a little too high this time, as activists climbed on top of an airplane in London.

To protest climate change, four UK environmentalists rallied together, managed to breach security, and climbed on top of a Boeing aircraft at London’s Heathrow airport. They were u…

Absolute Tallest Building – Hyder Consulting’s 5,250 Ft Structure

(TrendHunter.com) It will be the largest, tallest skyscraper in the known universe and no, I’m not referring to the 2,655-foot-tall Burj Dubai, an unfinished, wanna-be world-record-holder.

I’m talking about the unnamed, mile-high behemoth that Hyder Consulting plans on building. They’re not sure (or at least, they’…

First Renewable Fuel Flight – Virgin Atlantic Flies On Babassu & Coconut Oil

(TrendHunter.com) Richard Branson is once again a step ahead of the competition and his company Virgin Atlantic has become the first world airlines to fly a 747 jumbo jet on renewable fuel. The flight from London to Amsterdam flew on biofuel composing of the environmentally and socially sustainable oils babassu and c…