No Ordinary Choir

When will Honda stop coming up with such catchy advertising? I swear, their commercials just keep getting better and better. Back in 2006, Honda released a commercial in which an entire choir comprised of people made noises that sounded like a car- or more specifically- what a Honda vehicle would sound like juxtaposed with clips of a Honda vehicle traveling the roadways. If you close your eyes, you cannot tell the difference; amazing. Those other car companies could stand to learn a thing or two from these guys.

What Time is It?

If you thought you could tell time, try using one of these unique watches from Tokyoflash Japan. How the heck do you tell the time on it? The watch goes for 14,900 yen or roughly $145 US bucks. This particular brand watch is the Shinshoku design, which consists of a stainless steel band and looks like it was attacked by a hole puncher. Twenty-nine brightly colored LEDs light up to somehow tell you the time. According to the makers, 12 red LEDs tell you the hour, 3 green LEDs indicate increments of 15 minutes, and 14 yellow LEDs indicate single minutes. Confused yet? Don’t worry; it comes with directions.

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No Ordinary Water

Since when did drinking water become boring? When the creators of Gatorade dipped their hands into it, that’s when. Now, there’s no such thing as “water” anymore. Rather, there’s regular water; there’s sparkling water; there’s tonic water; and there’s Propel Fitness Water. Marketed by the makers of Gatorade with some pretty schnazzy commercials that have athletes falling out of drops of water and into action, it kinda’ makes you want to see what this “water” is all about. And with all the different types of water out there now, it’s no wonder it takes me forever to shop at the supermarket!

Commercials That Keep Us Guessing

Check out this advertisement for Postbank. At first, you don’t know where in the world this commercial is going. A guy is in a locker room, getting dressed when his phone rings. He answers it and speaks to whom we naturally assume is his wife, but viewers are in a for a slight twist by the end of the commercial. You know, it never ceases to amaze me how incredibly brilliant some commercials are; and if they’re funny-well, then that’s an added bonus.

It Stinks Like Sex in Here!

“People always say that I’m raunchy, but how can I be raunchy? I’m eternally 12.”monstersandcritics.com 2.23.07

The above quote was just one of many Mariah Carey has said. Speaking of Miss Carey, has anyone been paying attention to the metamorphosis that this “butterfly” has made? No longer, the innocent, multiple octave singer she used to be, Mariah seems to have slipped into the common, but all too ill-fated trap of using sex and sultry R&B crooning to sell albums. It seems that this singer is playing strip poker with each album that is released. I’m afraid of what the album cover will look like if she ends up making another record!

Private Spaces – New Service Lets You Book an Entire Hotel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Want real luxury? Book the entire deluxe hotel to yourself. As in ‘no other guests’ You know there are people that book whole hotels for their stay. Here’s a place where you can do it online. Imagine, your assistant doesn’t even have to talk to a person. You can have complete solitude. Hotels are …

Adjustable Wii Platform – Electric Up and Down Big TV Stand

(TrendHunter.com) Playing Nintendo Wii is more enjoyable when you’re standing up swinging and poking the remote. That’s why a Tokyo firm, Thanko, came up with an expensive, adjustable TV platform, the Electric Up and Down Big TV Stand. It has a built-in wired controller for pumping TV screen vertically up to 130 cm…

Mobile With Transparent Screen – Microsoft LucidTouch (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The LucidTouch is a new mobile concept launched by Microsoft and Mitsubishi that gives the end user the ability to control the devise by touching its see-through back; users can choose to manipulate objects by touching a sensor pad on the back of the device which allows them to resize images and tex…

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…

Bling Bling Boring (Part I) – 26 Luxury Gadgets (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) By now just about all of us have grown sick of sparkly gadgets… it’s the now very mainstream trend we at Trend Hunter are now simply referring to as the “Bling Bling Boring” craze.

As a final adieu to feature posts which feature nothing unique or exotic other than rhinestones, Swarovski crystals…

Fantasy Rooms in Minnesota – The FantaSuite Hotel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Winters are long and bone chillingly brutal in Minnesota, which is the only reason I can think of that the FantaSuite Hotel ended up in Burnsville, Minnesota.

Some of the fantasy room themes include outer space, caves, forest, Rome, Greece, Egypt, undersea and wild west.

I guess sometime during …

Artistic Advertising – Hotel Ads Imitate Renaissance Masters (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Renaissance Hotels in Rome, taking advantage of its name, has put out an advertising campaign on the basis of Renaissance paintings. “The Birth of Venus”, a work of art by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli, is recreated by a model standing by a pool and been catered to by three assistants. In…

Vegas Keeps Building – Giant Observation Wheel Coming (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What’s missing from Vegas? Access? check. Excess? check. Success? check. Gigantic observation wheel? Uh-oh. It’s not because the money people at Voyager Entertainment insist that a 600 foot observation wheel will be built in Vegas, it’s just a matter of where and when. A couple of locations have alr…

The softer side of Microsoft.



And by soft I mean good. Check out the latest work for MS Office:Mac 2008. Kudos to McCann for producing this smart, clean and well executed site. It’s refreshing to see Microsoft embrace white space and a light-hearted approach. Smart writing and a quirky illustration style breathe life into a familiar product that doesn’t need to be over-sold. Supported by an equally clever ad campaing (check out the ads here) this site rewards exploration and discovery, speaking well to the Mac audience. Thanks for talking to me and not down to me.

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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…

Christian Fashion Statement – Cross MP3 Player with Bible Audio (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) What would Jesus listen to? Christian form meets function meet fashion with this cruxifix shaped mp3 player necklace, containing 17 hour of the New Testament audio Bible. Distributed in the United States by CrossMP3Player.com.

Portable Internet Radio Lets You Create Your Own Station – Slacker Portable (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The problem with Internet radio is, of course, that you can’t listen to it on a radio because it is not broadcast on radio waves, so really its not radio at all.

The Slacker Portable solves that problem by caching the music on its flash memory and refreshing it whenever a WiFi connection is avai…

Art Coincides With Your Mood – MoodSpace by Interactive Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What if you could design your own moods? For only $25,000 you can add an entire wall that shimmers and glows to your living room decor.

Now imagine being able to fine tune it. The MoodSpace by Interactive Art has LED lighting and other elements, each piece crafted by artist Arjuna Noor.

“Arjuna’s…

Jet-Like Super Car – Acabion GTBO (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) At only 20% throttle the Acabion GTBO two wheeler (four at low speed) passes the Bugatti Veyron’s top end of 250mph and, helped by its jet-like body, it hits the electronically limited top end of 340mph at 50% throttle.

It goes from zero to 300mph in under 30 seconds! You might want to make like…

Gold Flake Champagne РGold-Cuv̩e With 23K Gold (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember the Gold Flakes Vodka? Now there’s an even more luxurious, yet much more affordable alternative! Gold-Cuvée Sekt mit Blattgold is a Gold-Cuvée champagne with flakes of real 23 K gold.

Imagine the aesthetic appeal of a glass of glittering alcohol, the golden bits shimmering as they’re sw…