Get Paid For Your Photographs – Photrade (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) While there are already many places on the web to host and share your images, a new free photography website called Photrade presents a unique paradigm that protects your shared images and enables you…

Social Network Profile Cards – Style Card

(TrendHunter.com) What’s your personal style? If you want to share it, then you’ve got to get a Style Card. These are like business cards only better as they aren’t about work, they’re about YOU or who you want to be. …

Disney Google Earth Tour – 3D Virtual Disney World (UPDATE) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s finally here: after promises made a long time ago by a fairy princess, tours of the lands known as Walt Disney World are available in 3D using Google Earth. With gas prices the way they are, pile…

Sending Your Hair to Celebrities – PETA’s Birthday Idea for the Trollsen Twins (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) PETA is known for doing some pretty outrageous publicity stunts, but their birthday idea for the Olsen twins is more funny than disturbing, yet it still makes the point very clear: stop wearing fur, i…

DIY Facebook Apps – CokeTags Promote Anything You Want (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Coca-Cola has launched CokeTag, a Facebook application that allows anyone to promote themselves and their interests via a convenient DIY portable application.

Coca-Cola describes CokeTag as a “per…

Hollywood Operas – Brokeback Mountain to Become Opera (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Brokeback Mountain, the movie starring the late Heath Ledger, will go from being a pop culture movie sensation to a cutting edge opera. The New York City Opera will put on their own adaption of the bi…

Passive Aggressive Entertainment – Vending Machines That Smash China (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We have all had those days where we just wanted to smash something. Usually the stuff we want to smash would be expensive to replace. Yaris Kublitz wants to install a vending machine where you can plu…

Fake Bodies as Street Art – Mark Jenkins Embed Series (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mark Jenkins has been featured on Trend Hunter before, but his new Embed series was worth a mention. Jenkins is an American artist who specializes in street installations, some of which can be describ…

Surprising Yourself With Mystery Gifts – The Something Store

(TrendHunter.com) Feel like buying something, anything, but just don’t know what? Try the Something Store! Upon receiving your $10 payment, the online store will ship you something completely random from their inventor…

Presidential Election 2.0 – Google Trends

(TrendHunter.com) Google Trends lets you see the relative popularity of different search terms in graph form. TechCrunch brings up an interesting point – can the search terms of the pre-election masses predict our next…

5 (More) Hot Green Women – Treehugging Beauties (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Earth First felt it would help their cause by publishing a list of their top 25 Hottest Green women.

Number five is Olivia Zaleski, a freelance writer in New York that has been involved with Huffing…

Swear Jars – Budweiser Viral Banned from TV, Flourishing on Web (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Budweiser’s “Swear Jar” ads were so inappropriate, they never made the cut for TV. On the web, however, the ads flourished. Even thought Anheuser Busch brand was barely mentioned, neither visually nor…

Uber Geek Biopics – Leonardo DiCaprio as Atari Founder

(TrendHunter.com) Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Atari super nerd Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic produced by DiCaprio’s Appian Way production company.

Born in 1943, the gaming innovator founded Atari i…

Plays Based on Web Scandals – User 927 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The User 927 scandal, a huge web privacy issue back in 2006, has resurfaced in Philadelphia in the form of a theatrical play. The production, aptly named USER 927, was put together by Katharine Clark …

iPhone AppStore Products – Loopt (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Loopt, the “social compass” that transforms your phone into a pinpointing device to show you where your contacts are at any given moment was just demonstrated on the iPhone at WWDC. The GPS applicatio…

DIY Software-as-a-Service Businesses – Micro-SaaS

(TrendHunter.com) The advent of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS, typically pronounced ‘Sass’) is making the emergence of a completely new type of business opportunity possible for entrepreneurs: the Micro-SaaS. A Micro-S…

Hand-Carved Wood Glasses – Urban Spectacles (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Made from such hardwoods as cocobolo, bloodwood, and purpleheart, the glasses from Urban Spectacles are made-to-order, being custom-designed and hand-carved. These pieces of art are real eyeware that …

5 Hot Green Women – Ecosphere Knock-Outs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Earthfirst.com is picking the Top 25 Hottest Women and Men of the Ecosphere. I’m really skeptical of any list that has Angelina Jolie as #6, but that’s where she is ranked. Here are numbers 10 through…

3-D Living Wallpaper – The Work of Emma Hack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. The effect is beautifully crisp, vibrant, liv…

Google News Spoofs – Fugue.com’s Good News

(TrendHunter.com) This is a nicely done exercise in wishful thinking. A Google News parody was created by a site called fugue.com showing what Boing Boing calls “A brilliantly done spoof of Google News from a paralle…