Glow in the Dark Spray Paint Games – Virtual Park

(TrendHunter.com) Pierre Haulot and Nike teamed up to create Virtual Park. This is a glow in the dark spray paint to create boundaries, lines, a ball that glows in the night, etc that allows a pick up game of basketball or soccer or hockey, etc to go well into the night. The paint disappears after a couple of hours a…

Bottled Dinners – MEATwater (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Embracing your inner carnivore? Check out the pig tattoo, severed arm holding the bottle. From Beef Jerky to Teriyaki Chicken to Wiener Schnitzel — yes, Wiener Schnitzel ewwww and it’s pink — dinner in a bottle or MEATwater is suppose to be be a high efficiency survival beverage. You know, I like …

Retro Car Record Players – VW Van Soundwagon

(TrendHunter.com) This gets to be filed under C for “cool as hell”. It’s a portable, stand-alone record player! The Soundwagon Portable Record Player from Turntable Lab is shaped like a Volkswagen van and “drives” around records, playing music through a built in speaker. $89 USD.

Taxi Ownership as Status – Kate Moss’ London Black Cab (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Look closely at the cab drivers when in London because super model Kate Moss and Daniella Helayel, super star designer, are into the craze of owning their own London black cabs.

Helayel’s model won’t be mistaken for a cab in service because of it’s signature paint job, but if you could get inside …

Self-Making Beds – Selfy the EasyBed

(TrendHunter.com) The alarm clock goes off. You roll out of bed and stumble into the bathroom to brush your teeth. As you walk back into the bedroom, you stop and stare. Something isn’t quite right. Something is different. MY BED! IT’S MADE! Oh yeah, I forgot I bought one of those self-making beds designed by Enrico …

Home Cell Phone Boosters – Verizon Femtocells (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Verizon Wireless is jumping on the latest craze in the wireless world. You may have already heard of femtocells which are little boxes that boost cell phone coverage in homes.

Femtocells allow service providers to extend their coverage indoors, especially where access is limited or unavailable, li…

Toy Cars as Pop Surrealism – Hot Wheels and Gallery 1988 Exhibit (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Hot Wheels cars, along with Gallery 1988 (G1988), celebrated its 40th anniversary by putting together a pop surrealist exhibit featuring a collection of artwork inspired by classic toy brands. More than 40 of the most famous pop surrealist artists from around the world made their contribution by cre…

Shopping by Text Message – Amazon TextBuyIt (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Shopaholics rejoice! Let us do the dance of joy! On Tuesday Amazon launched TextBuyIt, letting people text the name of a product, description, UPC or ISBN to the numbers “262966” (which is Amazon on the keypad), so we can buy from our cell phones, including from inside stores.

The service returns …

3D Medical Simulators – PerioSim for Dental Students (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Learning to be a dentist isn’t easy, but with the help of technological advances like the PerioSim 3D dental simulator, training becomes much more efficient for students.

Directly on the screen, students use a stylus which looks like an “explorer,” the scary-looking, pointy device dentists use to …

Fart Clock – Who Did It?

(TrendHunter.com) The Who Did It? wall clock is just hilarious.

The clock farts every hour on the hour, but only when the lights are on. So if you hear a farting noise at night, it’s not the clock!

The Who Did It? clock sells for $30.

Banning Lady Boys – Thai Men Must Keep Balls

(TrendHunter.com) Acceptance of the “third sex” in Thailand just took a hit from the health officials. Hospitals and clinics are prevented from removing the family jewels to make “ladyboys” or “katoey.” Many docs are doing the surgery outside of formal sex-change operations because its quick and easy. Some clinics ch…

Brand Personalization – Scion Speak

(TrendHunter.com) It’s all you, you, you. Well for Scion anyway, which is launching Scion Speak, which allows the car brand’s enthusiasts to personalize their vehicles yet further with custom-made modern age heraldic crests reflecting their lifestyle and passions. Designed in consultation with the fiercely loyal Scio…

Advergaming – Coke Zero UEFA 2008 Game

(TrendHunter.com) The hottest trend in ads right now is advergaming; basically building your brand in the gaming sphere. There’s the good the bad and the downright ugly in this field, but notable examples, including the brilliant PlayStation-based BK Games from last year, raise sales, cash and awareness in the noto…

Pen Spinning Tournaments – 16 Year Old Japanese Champion (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Almost every hobby has the potential to become a tournament these days, and the pen spinning tournament is the latest addition.

I’ve known how to do this neat little parlor trick since high school. We picked it up from the ROTC kids, and soon everyone with deft enough digits was doing it in class. …

Pole Dancer Alarm Clocks – Wake Me Up Before You Strip

(TrendHunter.com) Instead of spending your money at strip clubs, the £20 Pole Dancer Alarm Clock will give you a show each morning.

It is guaranteed to get you up (in more than just one way) to a seedy looking strip joint with a disco ball and bad lighting and music.

What better way to start our mornings?

Patrick Dempsey Fragrance – Avon’s McDreamy

(TrendHunter.com) The popularity of the hit medical drama, Grey’s Anatomy, has brought about the acting comeback of Patrick Dempsey, aka McDreamy. He is supposedly working with Avon to produce a new fragrance line. Avon? Yep, his wife is Avon’s global creative color director. Who knew? Add another $5 million to the D…

Google Pranks – AdSense for Conversation

(TrendHunter.com) Google launched the “omega testing” of AdSense for Conversations. This new technology would allow users to make money from contextual ads that belong with the conversation in which you are currently engaged. The “unobtrusive” screen you wear above your head would work to teleport you to the place th…

GPS Tagging Communities – POIfriend.com

(TrendHunter.com) POIfriend.com is a GPS tagging community based in Toronto, Canada, that aims to connect people based on interest and location.

“Most users agree that many standard POIs pre-loaded on your GPS device are either out-of-date, incorrect, missing, and not personally relevant,” the site says.

POIfriend…

Marketing Milk – Got Milk? Goes for (White) Gold

(TrendHunter.com) Spare a thought for plain old milk. When you’re competing with the multi-squillion dollar budgets and cultural ‘cool’ clout of the razzle dazzle marketing of the likes of Coca-Cola and Pepsi, being a fuddy-duddy, unbranded, terminally uncool beverage is tough. Really tough. And marketing the s…

iPod Death Clock – iPodMechanic

(TrendHunter.com) Gadgets don’t live forever. If you’re addicted to your iPod, that thought might sting a little. For an estimate into the lifespan on the Apple of your, uh, ears, there’s the iPod Death Clock.

Input the serial number of your device onto iPodMechanic.com, and it will calculate an estimate. Of course…