Ornamental Body Parts – Human Orifice Jewelry (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Taiwanese designer Yuyen Chang makes jewelry that mimics human anatomy. Her “Orifice” collection includes pins, pendants, and rings made with flesh color material and metal and shaped to represent the various shapes and openings of the human body.

The attractive “Orifice” jewelry collection is dec…

Fashion Designers as Saints – Kevin Ledo’s Portraits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Montreal-based artist Kevin Ledo uses images of world famous fashion icons such as Dior, Calvin Klein, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Prada and Louis Vuitton to draw parallels between modern fashion and Christian art from European medieval times.

Coolhunting notes Ledo does this by, “transposing methods of re…

Humanized Cartoons II – Jessica Rabbit Untooned

(TrendHunter.com) Remember Jessica Rabbit? She is the sultry human cartoon wife of Roger Rabbit in the 1988 Academy-Award winning film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The movie mixed action with animation to create a marvelous “toon” universe.

Jessica Rabbit was “untooned” and made to look lifelike and the result is prett…

Quadruple Magazine Covers – Vogue Espana Has 4 Kate Moss Covers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Bianca recently treated us to a post on the double Nylon magazine cover featuring two Gossip Girl starlets, so I had to one-up her with a fashion magazine using not three, but four covers for a single issue!

The May 2008 Spanish Vogue quadruple cover extravaganza features four different covers of s…

Touch-Screen OLED Keyboards – Optimus Tactus

(TrendHunter.com) Most of us would have heard of the Optimus Maximus Keyboard which employed small OLED Screens on the keys which could be programmed to preform different functions. Optimus has already hit the drawing boards and is planning a release of a new version which makes use of a single large OLED screen and …

3D Monitors – Zalman ZM-M220W Lets You Switch from 2D to 3D

(TrendHunter.com) It’s time to take the plunge into all those 3d games that you have stacked up over the years. The Zalman 3D monitor doesn’t need specially written games to produce to the 3D effect and can work with any existing game.

The monitor works by transposing two slightly different images on a screen at on…

Invisible Presents (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What do you get for someone who has everything? How about this invisible present by Christine Wong Yap?

I think it’s a great fun concept that has a deep social meaning. Provided that this someone has a good sense of humor and appreciates the irony.

I also believe this can be a good idea to use wh…

Eco-Friendly Fonts – New York Times Green Issue (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In a creative and artistic move, the New York Times has commissioned artist Gyongy Laky to sculpt custom-made fonts and graphics for its pre-Earth Day Green Issue. The fonts are made from variou earth-material such as coal and wood, demonstrating that the medium is the message .

According to Inhabi…

Green Video Mosaics – “I Love the World” by the Discovery Channel (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Discovery Channel has released their promotional Earth Day video called “I Love the World.” The promo includes a mosaic of its different shows all coming together for this sing along. The song is great and real catchy, it’s hard not to burst in and join in on the fun !!!

Space Weddings – Virgin Galactic Ceremonies

(TrendHunter.com) People say they want their weddings to be out of this world, but thanks to Virgin Galactic, that could become a literal reality.

Richard Branson says he’s looking to make it possible for couples to get married in space and he wants to be the one who performs the ceremony.

“The couple who have bo…

Sauna Trucks – Russian Banya On Wheels (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A Russian inventor came up with a hot new way to relax on the go; he built a banya, or sauna, on wheels.

The bizarre four wheel drive cabin, built by Igor Chupin, has been spotted cruising around Russia’s Altai region this month. Chupin made the mobile sauna out of an old military vehicle, a GAZ-6…

Location Based Gaming – Locomatrix Blends Virtual and Reality (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) LocoMatrix is a UK based game company that has developed a location based game to force our kids into the open.

The games are available for GPS enabled mobile phones. One of the games, called Fruit Farmer, requires the players to run around in a real environment such as a park or beach collecting …

Fake Animals – When Taxedermy Goes Awry (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You’ve never seen a rabbit with antlers? I was told these odd animals, named Wolpertinger (Crisensus bavaricus), once lived in the forests of Bavaria. My German hunter friend said that before they were extinct, some were caught and stuffed and can now be seen in the Hunting and Fishing Museum in Mu…

Murder Realism as Advertising – Print Campaign for ’13th Street Murders’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As a companion to their creative Guerrilla bar bathroom campaign, German action and suspense channel, 13th Street, has unveiled an equally scary print ad campaign.

Developed by Shackleton ad agency, Madrid, Spain, the ads depict realistic shocking murders. One poor guy met his fate on the hand of a…

Exotic (and Outlandish) Imports – Alibaba Enables Toad Skin Bow Ties and More

(TrendHunter.com) Sites like Alibaba are making the world a more interconnected place, which means exposure to exotic (and outlandish) crafts from around the world. In this case: toad skin bow ties.

Philippines’ very own, APN Crafts, specializes in purses, key holders, wallets, bags, and phone cases. These aren’t …

Cheese Sculptures – Eco-Friendly Edible Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The product is environmentally friendly, but it might take a few weeks become truly “green”. I’m talking about cheese sculptures. These time-sensitive art productions can change colour, and maybe even grow hair, depending on how long they are kept.

Having never attempted this activity myself, I…

Magic Mirrors – Carole Mirror Gives You Advice

(TrendHunter.com) Ever stood in front of your mirror and asked it a question, hoping it might reply? Well if you had this design by Robert Stadler, your mirror actually could answer back to you!

The Carole Mirror displays random proverbs and sayings, which probably are just as good as the answers you would get from…

Padlocked Pants – Protecting Indonesian Masseuses

(TrendHunter.com) To curb prostitution, the Indonesian Government has demanded masseuses padlock their pants in order to make it very clear to customers they wouldn’t be offered any type of sexual services.

It may sound a little bit dumb and naive, but the idea actually caught on, so much so that one massage parlor…

Solar Array Estimates by Satellite- Sungevity

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve thought about powering your house with solar technologies, Sungevity is a new Berkley website that would be of great interest to you.

Sungevity looks for your home via satellite images after you input your adress. After pinpointing your location, the service identifies the size of your r…

Candy Flavored Cocaine

(TrendHunter.com) Is it cocaine or candy? Uh, it’s both. Drug dealers eager to invent the newest disguise to smuggle their goods have found yet another inventive way.

According to an NBC News report a troubling development is drug dealers luring teenagers and young kids with candy flavored cocaine. This drug also ha…