Political Parody Ads – Axe’s Hillary Clinton Spoof

(TrendHunter.com) Axe is one of the most courageous and daring brands, always innovating when it comes to using consumer insights and new products. Their marketing campaign can be quite controversial and easily grab attention.

The featured ad is a political spoof showing Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton wearing…

Save The Environment – DrinkPee

(TrendHunter.com) This is extremely ecologically cool and really helps the environment and all but it is pretty gross. Researchers at EAWAG Aquatic Research in Switzerland have developed a simple way to extract the phosphorus and nitrogen from urine to be used as fertilizer. Untreated urine reaches the oceans, feedin…

Disastrous Uber Editing – Famous Photoshop Bloopers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Everybody knows that Photoshop is the miracle recipe for great looking stars. But what happens when the art director is over using the Photoshop wonders? It ruins everything! Stars get incredibly slimmer, they get 3 hands or they look like plastic toys. They’re humans after all!

Funny Movie About Fonts – Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) You see fonts everywhere, from graffiti in the street to advertising press inserts or choco pack you were holding in your hand earlier. They are everywhere. Creating them is not that easy as you need to build up their own personality..
Job Wouters is a font artist and along with his 4 year old nephe…

Chocolate Pencils – Dessert Comes with “Pencil Sharpeners”

(TrendHunter.com) If you are a chocolate addict, this is the ultimate dessert to crave for. The chocolate pencils come in different cocoa blends with variable intensity and you can create the right chocolate dose for the addict in you. This innovative product is the result of the collaboration between Japanese archit…

135 Celeb Photos at Christie’s – Gisele & Kate Moss Bare All (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) (Warning: post contains bare bodies)

How much would you pay to own photographs of some of the world’s most famous beauties… without their clothes on? New York auction house, Christie’s bets people are willing to shell out a few thousand dollars to own sexy photographs of the most attractive fema…

Growing Stem Cells with a Plastic Toy – Shrinky Dinks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Michelle Khine, a professor at the University of California, Merced, has built microfluidic devices with Shrinky Dinks. She developed complicated 3-D chips by stacking layers of polymer film. Shrinky Dinks, which shrink when exposed to oven heat, are ideal to make tiny breeding grounds for stem cell…

Pregnant Ballerinas – “MaEternal” (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Twelve pregnant women auditioning for “MaEternal”, will have a chance to dance in the newest production by Balletlorent.

Artistic Director Liv Lorent, who happens to be pregnant, believes mothers in waiting are fascinating, beautiful and serene, qualities which can only enrich her ballet productio…

Bordellos Losing Business to Internet – Hotel Luxor Shut Down (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Whoa! The legendary sex flagship the Hotel Luxor, Hamburg’s oldest bordello, is closing up shop.

The German city is known for its infamous Reeperbahn, the red light district which has been around since 1948.

“You can’t make good money in this area anymore with real sex,” Waltraud Mehrer, the est…

Flying Saucer House – Out of This World Homes

(TrendHunter.com) Are you looking to buy a “different” kind of house? If you love outer space stuff and don’t mind gawkers, this flying saucer home can be yours for a mere $100,000.00. Set in Chattanooga’s Signal Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the house goes up for auction March 15th.

Built by the late Curtis …

Micrography – Scripted Scarface Poster (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you look real, real close at this poster of bad-ass Tony Montana, the main character of the movie classic Scarface, you may notice that the poster was created entirely with letters. The unique technique used is called micrography and the poster was created using the film’s entire script from the …

Alien Love Dolls – Area 51 Love Doll

(TrendHunter.com) If you fantasize about doing it with an alien and the idea of three breasts, “kitty-kat” shaped mouth, blue skin, ass-shaped ears and suction cup fingers (!?) is what floats your boat, then we have the perfect companion for you.

The “classified” Area 51 Love Doll with “3 out of this world love ho…

Body Scanned Design Jeans – Bodymetrics (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Finding the perfect pair of jeans can be so difficult, but thankfully, modern technology is taking finding the perfect pair to the next level. Customization is what future fashion is all about.

Adding science to fashion, Bodymetrics uses computer technology to accurately measures the shape of an i…

Killer Heels Part II – Ballet Toe Boots (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You need a lot of talent and a high pain threshold, to walk around in these fetish heels. But perhaps, the purpose is to make you crawl on your hands and knees, or to make sure you can’t run away.

“The idea (along with the allusion) is to force the wearer’s feet almost en pointe, like those of a b…

Fashion that Gives Directions – Turn Signal Jacket

(TrendHunter.com) Clothes that use LED’s for flare are usually intended to create a “look at me” reaction. But Leah Buechley, has designed what appears to be a practical use for clothing that lights up. Shirts for bikers that flash turn signals. The way bikers are hunched over the handlebars, wouldn’t it make more se…

Super Stretching Profitability – 7th Harry Potter Book Yields 2 Movies

(TrendHunter.com) The very last Harry Potter book will lead to the creation of not one, but two films. This is a fantastic business idea, as the films, based on the seventh Harry Potter book, are guaranteed to drive millions of box office sales as well as DVD purchases.

As it’s the final book in the JK Rowling seri…

Fashionable Micro-Lending – Benetton’s Global Campaign to Support Birima (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Benetton has launched a global campaign in support of micro-lending program Birima which is based in Senegal. It seems micro-lending or micro-credit programs are suddenly becoming ubiquitous and trendy as they are increasingly tied to big companies (in this case Italian clothing retailers Benetton) …

Controversial TV Campaign – Bush is American Psycho (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand has created a controversial campaign to promote the TVNZ premiere of the cult thriller, American Psycho. One of the ads show a close up on American President George W. Bush with a big and clear “American Psycho” printed under it. Another ad shows the American flag crea…

Very Bizarre Online Shopping Ads – Diesel Haiku

(TrendHunter.com) For Diesel’s High Speed Fashion online shopping campaign, they’ve launched print ads featuring an attractive young mother powdering her babies bum while running in skinny jeans and stilettos.

The ad reads, “Haiku: You should buy Diesel / You can run in your jeans and / powder baby’s butt”

The pri…

Celebrity Passport Stamps – Creative RAM FM Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With the tagline “Even though they have not visited every country, their music has.” this creative ad campaign for RAM FM radio station uses passport stamps to create portraits of four iconic music stars: Bob Marley, The Beatles, Kylie Minogue and Elton John. I love how the artistic rendering of the…