Grow Your Own Hummer – Increases 600% In Size

(TrendHunter.com) It’s not what some of you are thinking! This is actually just a strange novelty item I came across. For just $24 a dozen, you can have a Hummer party! It looks like one of those “just add water” things. It’s hard to tell how big it actually gets. I’m not sure of the appeal of this, other than t…

The Ultimate Man Bag – Sir Bob Gelfof’s Mulberry Bag

(TrendHunter.com) This is a trend which I don’t really understand how it happened. Sir Bob Gelfof, has teamed up with Mulberry, a leading designer of leather goods, to create the ‘Bob Bag’. The press released touts it as the ultimate man bag it is said to “have lot of compartments”.

POA so I can’t imagine it is that…

TV Show Influences Tech Fashion – Lipstick Jungle (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Last time we reported on Lipstick Jungle, a new TV show based on the book series by Candace Bushnell, we mentioned it would probably have a heavy influence on fashion, just like the Sex and the City series by the same author did. What we didn’t realize is how heavily it would be influencing tech tre…

World’s Smallest Gun – 2″ SwissMiniGun Fires Real Bullets (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This tiny, tiny gun can kill you. Believe it or not. The SwissMiniGun is about 2 inches long (approximately the size of a key chain) but fires tiny 270mph bullets powerful enough to kill at very close range. The stainless steel gun costs $6,000 although the manufacturers also produce extravagant, ma…

Retro Commuter Community – RetroVelo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) “Captivating” is probably the best word to describe the RetroVelo bicycles from Germany.

RetroVelo has launched an entire lifestyle for bicyclists. One club motto is, “We promise nothing and deliver.” One fan said he had never had an urge to party with the makers of any product until he met the R…

Eye Candy – Top 8 Innovations For Your Eyes (Including Creepy Contact Lenses) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why not enhance your eyes with a new flavor of contacts, eye tattoos or special jewelry that sticks to your cornea? Yes, good times.

The first example on our list would be FXeyes. These special effect contact lenses are kind of creepy. They are produced by a company named Fxeyes which specializes…

Branson Helps You Hire a Private Jet – Virgin Charter (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Richard Branson keeps making it easier for the world to travel in style. He wasn’t going to stop at Virgin Galactic; now he’s launched Virgin Charter, a new online service that lets the uber affluent charter private planes from anywhere in the world.

If the travel bug is crawling around under your…

Virtual Shoe Museum II – Whacked Concept Shoes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) “Concept” designs are hot in cars, furniture, tech, etc. Fulfilling that need to fix that addiction to novel design ideas for those who also have shoe fetishes are these concept shoes.

The answer to all those questions you might be thinking when you look through this gallery is simply, “Who cares?…

Celebrity Dolls – Noel Cruz Repainted Reproductions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Noel Cruz is an artist whose present crusade is to improve upon the affinity for celebrity dolls by repainting them. Most, or I should say many, of us have been exposed to celebrity dolls claiming to represent a famous person’s likeness only to be cruelly disappointed upon realizing that the doll lo…

Zero Gravity Curiosity – Sending Boomerangs to Space

(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever wondered if a boomerang would come back to you if you chucked it in space? Will the ‘rang come back at zero gravity? While most people probably haven’t pondered over that one, some Japanese researchers did, and the curiosity got to them so badly, they wanted to find out for themselves.…

Wingtip Sneakers – Nike Still Has Design Tricks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If I’m Nike, I’m getting these awesome shoes to North America and Europe as quickly as possible. Nike Wingtips have just been released in Japan and they look wicked. Obviously taking their cue from the classics. The pair is called the Dunk Lo Premium and Dunk Hi Premium, it white or black leather wi…

Acid House Smiley Kids – Has UK School Gone Too Far?

(TrendHunter.com) A UK school has disguised children in online photographs with acid house-style smiley faces. The move was to protect the children from unwanted attention but as the school used a popular symbol of the acid house raving scene in the late 1980s it has just attracted attention. Even the National Societ…

High Performance Breast Pumping – Techy Solution for Working Moms (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We all know that Mother’s milk is the best for babies. Breast pumps have been around for a while now, but not much has been done to bring them to our high tech world. Leave it to designers Miji Rhoe & Solbi Lim who bring you the Handheld Breast Pump, a solution for the working (or just lazy) mom who…

Bling Bling Boring (Part III) – Top 34 Bizarre Blinged Things (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As the final part in our Bling Bling Boring series, we bring you a list of the most random things adorned with crystals, gems and diamonds.

The list has such a diverse range of items, it was impossible to create individual categories. There’s everything from jewel encrusted bugs to toilet paper di…

Fashion Targets Breast Cancer – Natalie Imbruglia with Sass & Bride (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In an increasing trend of fashion and celebrities helping the fight against AIDS and cancer, Sass & Bide has teamed up with Aussie singer Natalie Imbruglia to help Fashion Targets Breast Cancer- a charity close to Sass & Bide designer Heidi Middleton’s heart.

Middleton was diagnosed with breast ca…

German Patriotism Campaign – Du Bist Deutschland Ads (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Jung von Matt, one of Germany’s top ad agencies, has released a great campaign to help evoke positive feelings of patriotism in the country’s citizens.

The Du bist Deutschland (you are Germany) campaign is a series of 18 photographs of famous Germans who have had historical impact and are known gl…

Searching For Answers – Conspiracy Theory Film Zeitgeist (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Conspiracy films seem to be popping up everywhere, teeming with facts on what the real underlying truth is and what the people in power don’t want you to know making them appealing to the one’s searching for the answers.

Zeitgeist is yet another one of those films, however what makes this one …

Camera Implants For Insects – Cyborg Spy Flies

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re paranoid about being watched, this might not be a good feature to read as it could cause you more anxiety.

Scientists are working on the development of an implant which can be inserted into flying insects, turning them into tiny spies. They’ll be able to send these “Cyborgs” into environ…

Snarky Animated TV Show Promo – Dirt Ads (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) To promote the new season of Dirt, a series of six really funky, animated clips were created featuring comic book style spoofs of the types of things you’d see in celebrity tabloids.

The ads created by Arsenal feature “vignettes of Hollywood stars and celebutaunts caught in the act of wild, unbeco…

Steam Powered Rowboat – New Boat Concept Lets Steam Do The Work (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Although the actual boat, known as “Steam Rowboat II”, is still in the development phase, the proof-of-concept mechanism (AKA Steam Rowboat I) seems to work very well! Artist/inventor I-Wei Huang has also built many other steam powered devices, which are described on his website Crabfu.com. Unfortun…