(TrendHunter.com) It’s passed. The biggest fashion day for Spring 2008. Couture week is when the thoroughbred fashion horses trot out their finest innovations. Over the next few days, you can see five designs from the biggest designers and decide which you like overall. Chanel starts with some short pastel dresses th…
(TrendHunter.com) The Latest in Viral Advertising is the promo for the new football (soccer) game FIFA Street 3. Released across Europe, this video displays some rhythmic gymnastics/ parkour/ circ de sol le all amazing twisted up into “Extreme football from Mexicoâ€. Watch the Video and be amazed, be very amazed.
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(TrendHunter.com) All thanks to the movie Juno, hamburger phones are now very much in demand; sales of eBay for these silly phones have shot through the roof. Seriously. The sales have gone up 759% on eBay since the movie was released!
If you haven’t seen the flick, the main character, Juno, uses the corded Hamburg…
(TrendHunter.com) As was remarked by my office compadres – Will Ferrell can pretty much do anything, anywhere, and then video tape it and post it on the internet, and it will be funny. It is a tried and tested formula that has yet to fail Ferrel, or his funnyordie.com alumni. In this outing, Ferrel invades CNBC’s “…
(TrendHunter.com) Ever find yourself using your skin as a piece of paper to write down a name of a song you hear on the radio and want to download, or maybe a shopping list?
Here’s a little something cool and different that next time you go start writing your to do list on your skin, you’re probably going to want o…
(TrendHunter.com) Target doesn’t care what bloggers think about them. When a blogger emailed criticizing a billboard, she got a blow off email saying that Target doesn’t deal with non-traditional media. Target went on to say that this allows them time to focus their efforts on publications that reaches their core “gu…
(TrendHunter.com) Don’t be fooled — this is no Lucky Charms commercial. If you’re familiar with the Truth campaigns against cigarettes, then you know the ads tend to be rather gorey. The latest ad, however, goes against spreading awareness with a new approach that’s actually even a bit… cute.
“A Magical Amount” a…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve ever dreamed of flying naked, you better head to Germany! A travel agency there is offering the first nudist holiday flights for vacationers who like to take the bare minimum when traveling.
OssiUrlaub.de will start booking a trial naked voyage this week which will leave from Erfurt in ea…
In a keynote address to several hundred convention delegates, McGuinness, who has managed U2 since the band started, directly attacked the creators and operators of ISPs, saying, “I think the failure of ISPs to engage in the fight against piracy, to date, has been the single biggest failure in the digital music market.
“They are the gatekeepers with the technical means to make a far greater impact on mass copyright violation than the tens of thousands of lawsuits taken out against individual file sharers,” he said. “To me, prosecuting the customer is counterintuitive, though I recognize that these prosecutions have an educational and propaganda effect, however small, in showing that stealing music is wrong.”
McGuinness likened ISPs’ relationship to illegal downloading to a magazine filled with ads for stolen cars, one that also helped deliver them to anyone interested in having one.
“I’ve met a lot of today’s heroes of Silicon Valley,” he said. “Most of them don’t really think of themselves as makers of burglary kits. . . . [But] kids don’t pay $25 a month for broadband just to share their photos, do their homework and e-mail their pals.”
While also chiding record companies for not treating musicians equitably, McGuinness reserved his harshest words for ISPs. At the same time, he challenged them to step up to the plate to acknowledge that they have “a moral obligation to be true, trustworthy partners of the music sector. To respect and take responsibility for protecting music.”
After his talk, which McGuinness said has been posted on U2’s official website, the manager said that musicians have “too little power” to force such actions and suggested that if “ISPs won’t do so voluntarily, legislation may require them to do so.”
He said this was primarily his cause, not U2’s, although he prefaced his remarks by noting that “U2 always understood that it would be pathetic to be good at the music and bad at the business and [has] always been prepared to invest in their own future.
“We were never interested in joining that long, humiliating list of miserable artists who made lousy deals, got exploited and ended up broke and with no control over how their life’s work was used, and no say in how their names and likenesses were bought and sold.”
He also said he thinks a key change in the attitude of technology companies may come from Apple founder Steve Jobs’ new role with the Walt Disney Co., ABC-TV and Hollywood Records.
“His point of view may be changing now that he owns content as well as selling those beautiful machines that have changed our world.”
The MIDEM conference runs through Thursday and is expected to draw nearly 9,500 participants from 91 countries
(TrendHunter.com) These chewing gum sculptures by artist Maurizio Savini are pretty awesome, and from afar, chewing gum is the last thing you would consider they were made from.
I actually find them really scary – I am not sure if this is as the bubble gum pink reminds me of flesh. I think I find the sheer size of t…
(TrendHunter.com) To me thinking of camping food brings on images of dehydrated space style food with ice cream being the most exciting thing on offer. However, Swiss-based company Katadyn have begun to change all of that with the ultimate in convenience food. The World’s first cheese burger in a tin!
All the food t…
(TrendHunter.com) So the kid has a party and acts as either a legend or knob on Australian TV. These quickly turns Corey Worthington into a Z list celebrity almost instantly – as already covered in two parts on Trend Hunter. However a very amusing part three is the merchandise being developed – but not by Corey, I ha…
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s another face/product mashup. Go from fab to funky without leaving your computer. Revolutioneyes is part of the ineyewear.com website where you can experiment with different size and shapes of eyewear. The site has a wide variety of glasses from the top names in eyewear, including Oakley, Bvu…
(TrendHunter.com) The metallic menswear theme is hot off the European catwalks. From Paris fashion week comes Maison Martin Margiela’s 20th anniversary show highlighting his fall-winter 08/09 collection. This much sought after Belgian designer, who interestingly chooses to stay out of the public eye, has celebrated h…
(TrendHunter.com) A Chinese gardener has focused his obsessive behavior on growing calabash, a vine whose fruit can be eaten or dried out and used as a container. Sounds like a perfectly normal endeavor until you learn that Mr. Zha has spent 6 years and $830,000 on perfecting his hobby. These are no ordinary calabash…
(TrendHunter.com) I wish I could tell you what it is about these Nike boots that makes them so intriguing, but I’m just going to have to stick with the fact they are uncommonly beautiful.
In a bizarre cross between a sneaker and a suede boot, the Winter Hi2 comes in three color variations: pink and brown (Baroque B…
(TrendHunter.com) This gizmo connects to your phone (better if it’s someone elses) and randomly calls a phone number when the user tries to call out. Don’t worry, 911 calls will always call out correctly and in fact, about 25% of all the other attempts make it out as dialed – just enough to get the victim to continue…
(TrendHunter.com) This has got to be the most practical computer-based invention I have seen in a long time. Designer Clement Eloy found an ingenious way to utilize the heat generated by the power cable adapter of your laptop to power a pair of foot warmers. The Sweet Home slipper is just the most magnificent creatio…
(TrendHunter.com) I love these iconic speakers even though they are truly hideous to look at – and of course a pun in 3D form.
These headless dog speakers are from Buro Vormkrijgers and come in black and white. I have not been able to find out a price, but have been informed they are hideously expensive. I can’t fin…
(TrendHunter.com) A wave of ubiquitous computing is sweeping the world, with incredible inventions like touch-screen tabletops hitting restaurants and bars, allowing for waiterless ordering with interactive menus, or sheer entertainment.
The Adour restaurant in NYC’s St. Regis hotel opens tomorrow and will offer an …
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