Real Phone In A Fake Sandwich – Sandwich Phone

(TrendHunter.com) There isn’t much to say here! The title and photo are self-explanatory! I’m not sure how you answer it. And I can imagine the strange looks you’d get if you were in public view, talking into a slice of bread! Obviously, the company that made this is open-minded and willing to do custom designs. …

Dance Craze Spurs Black Market Products – Bobaraba Fuels Bottom Enhancers (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) On the Ivory Coast of Africa, a pair of Sir Mix-a-Lot imitators called DJ Mix and DJ Eloh have devised a dance to go with the hit song Bobaraba, which means “Big Bottom.”

As a result of the song’s popularity, women want to undergo surgery to enhance their bottoms and have turned to all kinds of co…

Home Built Laser Harp – Light-Controlled Synth Harp in Action (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Laser harps aren’t necessarily new, but this is the first time I’ve seen a home built one.

In the video, Stephen Hobley moves his hands over the laser beams projected in the air to produce music as the sensors gets blocked. My explanation of the light-controlled synth harp isn’t great, which is wh…

Turn Your Gum Into Origami Art – Gum Flower

(TrendHunter.com) As a motivation not to spit your gum into the street, designer Jung-taek Choi has created the Gum Flower. The Gum Flower’s wrapper is a piece of origami. Once you are done with your gum, you fold the wrapper into a cute little origami flower and put the gum inside the flower. Now you have a colorful…

Instruments Made of Car Parts – Car Music Project for Ford (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Recycling has spurred on such a huge movement for creative projects like these instruments made of old car parts.

The video is from the British Ford commercial we posted last week which featured an entire orchestra made of pieces of a Ford Focus backed up singer, Alesha Dixon. The music they are a…

Lohan Bares All To Be Monroe – Recreating The Last Sitting

(TrendHunter.com) Marilyn Monroe continues to be one of the world’s most influential female icons, as is continually proven by celebrities who try to emulate her. The latest is Lindsay Lohan who posed for a spread in New York Magazine inspired by the famous shoot, “The Last Sitting” in which Marilyn Monroe got naked …

Lickable Ads – Welch’s Grape Juice

(TrendHunter.com) Scratch and sniff is so ’90s. Marketers for Welch’s have gotten a lot more savvy when trying to appeal to the senses of their customers. The company has launched a new lickable ad campaign for their grape juice.

Similar to perfume ads that have panels you pull back to offer a hint of the fragrance…

Online Rep Protection – Tiger Two, Distilled, Reputation Defender

(TrendHunter.com) Type Amy Winehouse or Paris Hilton into Google and in the top ten results you’re sure to find articles about them smoking crack or making sex tapes. Try again with Kate Moss and you won’t find any mention of her infamous behaviour until somewhere on the third page of results. In fact, clicking throu…

Supersonic Flight – Reaction Engines A2 Hydrogen Airplane

(TrendHunter.com) This Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) concept is the A2 hypersonic plane designed by Reaction Engines of the U.K. It will carry 300 passengers and reach speeds of up to 4,000 mph. It will run on liquid hydrogen and could fly between England and Australia in less than 5 hours. A production model won…

Searching the Web By Clusters – Clusty Returns Groups of Results

(TrendHunter.com) This search engine isn’t a Google killer, but it’s one that will be gaining in popularity because of its specialized search feature. It’s called Clusty because it clusters search results in meaningful groups. If you are doing a large search on a popular term, Clusty will try to put them in groups wi…

Shifting to All Digital TV – What Will Happen When Analog Ends?

(TrendHunter.com) It is now official that TV will go from analog to digital broadcasts by February 17th 2009. Many TV stations already broadcast digital as well as analog signals. The difference is that on that date, the analog switch will be turned off.

Consumers that already use cable, satellite or have a TV w…

Miss Landmine Contest

(TrendHunter.com) Created by Norwegian artist Morten Traavik, the Miss Landmine contest is both a protest of the use of landmines and a celebration of beauty. It’s no secret that landmines are violent objects of war that indiscriminately maim and kill – often innocent people. The Miss Landmine contest in Angola conti…

Barbed Wired Crib – Baby Furniture by John Greg Ball

(TrendHunter.com) This crib is not really designed with barbed wire. It just looks like it. The design is supposed to mimic and make light of the physical restraints and many spatial limitations that human beings create to limit mobility. The x shaped motif is supposed to encourage the babies to stay in the crib. How…

Star Wars Origami (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dorks unite! There is finally a way your two great loves may meet – Star Wars Origami. The recent craze has been sweeping the globe with sites popping up all over the net. Happymagpie.com teaches you how to make your own Destroyer Droid or Naboo Fighter ship. Whilst Phillip West’ Flickr acco…

Buddhist-Themed Amusement Park – Suoi Tien Park (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Who says spirituality can’t be fun? Suoi Tien Park in Vietnam is an amusement park themed by all things Buddhism.

Forget meditation or consuming nothing but healing herbs, this park has all the fun things traditional amusement parks do including wild roller coaster rides, water slides, race cars a…

Coiled Man Hair For Women – Shehawks at Emporio Armani (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Watching the Emporio Armani show, it was difficult to stay focused on the fashions being paraded down the runway as my gaze was stuck on the model’s heads.

The hairstyles at the Milan Fashion Week show weren’t elaborate, brightly coloured or large. They were short and mannish, coiled on top of the…

Political Musical – Barackula

(TrendHunter.com) “Barackula” is a fictional horror rock musical featuring the Democratic presidential candidate hopeful Barack Obama as a young warrior fighting a secret society of vampires at his alma mater Harvard Law School in 1990 when he was inducted into presidency of the Harvard Law Review. Barackula, which u…

12 Interesting Beds (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We read in them. We watch television in them. We make love in them. We sleep in them. I’m talking about beds and like us, they come in all shapes and sizes. This is a collection of interesting beds that I found across the internet. Good night.

musical bed / bed made of jade / magic bed / world’s la…

Musical Art For Gap Viral – Sound of Colour (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) You may not think colour has a sound, but five bands and five directors were able to create five music videos inspired by five different colours. What results was the Sound of Color, and the compilation will part of an online ad campaign by Gap. The Raveonettes, Dntel, Swizz Beatz, the Blakes and Ma…

Cheese Made of Breast Milk – Human Cheese (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If the thought of adults drinking human breast milk make you cringe, what about the thought of eating fermented human breast milk on your crackers?

The video shows exactly where Human Cheese, a new social enterprise, goes for their product. So whose boobs are you drinking from? Well, according to …