USB For Distanced Loved Ones – MooMoo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Have someone far away that you miss? Get a MooMoo.

The silly little cow gadget lights up in different colours, and a mooing sound comes out of the computer when someone sends a signal to your MooMoo. While there was no product page to be found, the video seems to show that users can transit a sign…

Web Jargon Explained: Geotagged Photos (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Geotagging means adding geographical coordinates to something (in this case photos) usually aided by a GPS. Looking at photos on a map and knowing exactly where they were taken literally adds dimension to the experience especially if it’s someplace you’re going to visit or would love to visit bu…

Disco With Your Baby – Clubs Cater to Mothers with Babies (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Baby Loves Disco started in the US, by dancer Heather Murphy, and has now landed in the UK (when I am based) and I love it. It is the ultimate in a child friendly night out – a disco with your baby!

Basically it is a club night that takes placed during week-day afternoons with everything you woul…

Drug Addicts As Animals – Spoof Wildlife Doc as Viral Anti-Drug Ad (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The UK’s government organization for drug awareness, Frank, has released a new viral video over youth social netwoking sites. The ad is a spoof wild life documentary, showing the camera venturing nervously into a house party and uncovering an array of strange species. Such are the “pill taker” ( wat…

60 Second Keynotes – 90 Minutes Steve Jobs in 60 Seconds

(TrendHunter.com) The folks at Mahalo Daily found have summarized 90 minutes of Steve Jobs into just 60 seconds. The video is a condensed version of Steve Job’s keynote at MacWorld 2008.

The video covers so many different points you’ll wonder what Jobs spoke about for the other 89 minutes.

As a keynote speaker m…

Edible Landscapes – Foodland (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These peculiar photos were created by a Russian artist named Tanusha.

She created landscapes made of food items using some type of photo manipulation software, and has done a tremendous job in the collection of images she’s titled Food Land.

Her images contain mountains made of bread, broccoli t…

Human Hair Dress – Bizarre Fashion Designs to Generate Buzz

(TrendHunter.com) Some designers will stop at nothing to get ink from the fashion writers. Here’s a hair dress to illustrate the point. It was shown at the London College of Fashion awards. The aspiring designer is Julia Reindell. This was part of a collection of hair dresses, which included one that seemed to emanat…

Animals as Babies – Dog Backpack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You’ve seen people strap their babies on their backs and on their stomachs, so why not do the same with their dogs? People treat them as children these days anyway, so it really isn’t that bizarre.

These images show a puffy little Pomeranian strapped to the back of his owner in a checker patterned …

Pen Cutlery – Work N’ Eat With Din-Ink

(TrendHunter.com) DesignBoom.com, a design news blog, recently held a design competition called dining in 2015. With an impressive 4843 entrants from 98 countries, three designs tied for first place. This was one of the winners – din-ink by Andrea Cingoli, Paolo Emilio Bellisario, Cristian Cellini, and Francesca Font…

Instant Computer Boot-Up – Splashtop

(TrendHunter.com) Silicon Valley startup, Device VM, is trying to get you on the web faster than ever before. When it comes to computers, you have two options: leave it on and waste energy or turn it off and wait several minutes until your machine boots up. Now, you have something in between – Splashtop is a mini-ope…

Special Drugs For Gamers – FPSBrain

(TrendHunter.com) I’m not even sure what to say about this. According to the makers of FpsBrain, a new energy pill, “Electronic sports is becoming more and more professional.” That being said, they though it made sense to pay more attention to the hardcore gamer by forcing their sleep-deprived bodies to continue to w…

Online Karaoke Contest – TalentRun (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Although the site is German, you’ll still get plenty of joy, if not more, listening to random strangers belt out some of the world’s favourite karaoke tunes, the majority of which are in English.

TalentRun is an online community that brings together people who either love to sing karaoke, watch it…

Couch Surfing For Euro 08 – Sleep-In (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Couch surfing, the act of sleeping on a stranger’s sofa while traveling, is becoming an internationally accepted type of travel accommodation. Spinning off the trend are niche couch surfing projects like Sleep-In, a website that lets soccer fans both find and offer a couch during Euro 08.

Unlike j…

Half-Suit For Women? – Fashion on Top, Undies Below (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember the Half Suit? The oddly popular suit cut off at the waist, the ideal outfit for the video conferencing employee? Business on top, party below? There is now, at long last, a female version! In fact, there are several half-dresses and half outfits in which the bottom isn’t just comfortable, …

Radical Elopement – Double Proxy Weddings

(TrendHunter.com) Are proxy weddings the future of matrimonial services?

By proxy I mean either bride or groom, is unable to attend the ceremony, but the wedding takes place anyway. Someone usually takes the place of the missing person. A double proxy wedding is when neither shows.

One army couple took the proxy w…

AntiFreeze Improves Ice Cream – No More Freezer Burn

(TrendHunter.com) It sounds horrifically toxic, but scientists have found that the secret to perfect ice cream may lie in a new type of antifreeze. The discovery comes from food scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Everyone knows that soft serve, ice cream bought at a cafe or the first serving from …

Magical Luxury Water – Madonna Spends $10,000 a Month on Kabbalah Water

(TrendHunter.com) At $5.00 a bottle, Madonna is currently spending $10,000 USD per month drinking Chernobyle water, and according the British Government and the Department of Trade and Industry, she also believes this magical water can used to treat radioactive material. Madonna and Guy Ritchie are devote followers o…

Custom Flickr Cards – Phreetings

(TrendHunter.com) Phreetings is a really neat site that lets you create your own photo ecards using images from Flickr. I’m not sure if it’s Flickr endorsed as there’s no information on the site.

The cards are easy to create. Simply type in a search term of your choice (I chose “fashion”) and it automatically searc…

Scientifically Inventing A New Color – Blacker Than Black

(TrendHunter.com) Did you know that the color black has an official standard kept by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology? It’s sort of their thing. It seems that researchers at Rice University in Houston have developed a configuration of carbon nanotubes that produce a material 30 times blacker th…

Kirsten Dunst For Miu Miu – Ad Campaign Spring/Summer 2008 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The long-awaited Miu Miu campaign with Kirsten Dunst, that was shot last November is finally out! These photos are simply mesmerizing! Kirsten, who replaced Laeticia Casta fits amazingly in the world of the famous designer brand, and the photographers, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott did their best to …