Alien Matrimony – Space Weddings

(TrendHunter.com) Now, you can combine two once-in-a-lifetime events – getting married and going up into space. Space Wedding, a business partnership of Rocketplane Kistler Japan and wedding planner First Advantage, has…

Body Art Videos – Write Here, Right Now (5 Markers + 8 Hours) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Here is a woman who must really, really love typeface text. The video as well as the stills show how she covers her entire body, or at least the most visible parts of it, with different typeface letters.…

Viral Spoof Creating Change – Unilever Reacts to ‘Dove Onslaught(er)’ (by Greeenpeace) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Long ago, Trend Hunter brought you the Dove Evolution ad, which features a normal women transformed into a billboard model. The commercial is striking because you can observe how much change takes place.…

Publicity Stunt Pricing – Dolce & Gabanna’s $369,000 Sunglasses

(TrendHunter.com) I feel so dirty, I will wash my hands and keyboard after posting this publicity stunt.

C’mon $369,000 for a pair of sunglasses from Dolce and Gabanna?

The sunglasses are gold and probably have some…

Eco Architecture – Rammed Earth Homes

(TrendHunter.com) Innovations in architecture and construction materials are always welcomed because of the growing interest into going “green”.

The rammed earth construction for buildings is incredibly old. It can…

Puzzle House – Mysterious Fifth Avenue Home (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This apartment has been revamped by architect Eric Clough with an assortment of puzzles for the current and future owners to solve.

The project is one of a kind and depended upon a number of collaborations…

Real Exercise in a Virtual World – Stationary Bike Connected to SecondLife (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A set of prototype stationary bikes has been rigged up to a computer to allow riders to explore the online world, SecondLife. Sensors on the bikes read the velocity of the turning wheels and the direction…

Can Shocking Art Go Too Far? – Lamp Skirts (With a Message) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The art world was recently enlightened at a show called “Under My Skin”. At the exhibit, French artist Marianne Maric made these lamps to illustrate girls, “as a thing conveyed by the entertainment world.”…

Binaural Recording – The $3899 Otokinoko Microphone Has Ears (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s called binaural recording and it works like this: a microphone that is shaped like your head (spherical) and has ears records sounds the way humans actually hear things.

When played back through…

Dirt-Repelling Paint Job – Chamelic

(TrendHunter.com) It sounds more like a magic spell than a new technology – a dirt-repelling coating. Spray it on glass, metal, or plastic and… that’s it. The surface stays clean. Developed by the University of Leeds…

Watching TV to Death – Woman Died Watching TV, Found 42 Years Later

(TrendHunter.com) This woman loved her television. Perhaps more than life itself.  Hour after hour passed with her sitting in her favorite chair with a nice cup of tea. She wouldn’t move, it was her life. It was also…

Killer Heels III – Murderous Shoes

(TrendHunter.com) I think this is the most terrifying pair of shoes I have seen in my life. The razor thin heels of these red stilettos elevate perfectly perpendicular to the ground like ballet toes. But geometrical proportions…

Perpetual Passenger Train – Non-Stop Metro Rail Transit

(TrendHunter.com) Taiwanese inventor, Peng Yu-lun, has designed a non-stop passenger train. It takes a lot of energy to start and stop a moving train due to something called inertia (mass x speed). Awesome! Wait a minute.…

USB Potpourri – Instant Aroma For Geeky Travellers (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Geeks everywhere will rejoice at the AromaUSB, which is surely the world’s first USB-powered potpourri accessory.

The device is a mobile clip that you can bring along with your laptop when you are traveling.…

44 Surprising Things You Can Eat – From Gold Pills to Deodorant

(TrendHunter.com) While candy necklaces and chocolate cigarettes have been confectionery novelties for decades, a range of new innovations are arising that turn things ordinarily not for consumption into unique, edible…

2000 ft Buildings – ‘Tokyo Sky Tree’ is World’s 2nd Tallest (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A ridiculously tall building that is not in Dubai? Yes. As the name suggests, standing at 2000 feet (610 meters) tall, the Tokyo Sky Tree will actually be in the heart of Tokyo.

Set to finish in 2011…

Thought Changing Furniture (Update) – The Mind Chair Projects Into Your Head (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember The Mind Chair that Trend Hunter told you about back in February? That early polypropylene version of the chair was presented at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition 2008 at MoMA in New…

Landscape Self Protraits – Art by Levi van Veluw (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Dutch artist Levi van Veluw’s self portraits are not photoshop enhanced pictures. His artform involves what he calls “material transfers” whereby he adds all kinds of things on himself. His landscape…

Funeral Planning Online – Have Fun Planning Your Death

(TrendHunter.com) DieBoomerDie.blogspot.com is a fun blog, but people die… so it’s important to plan your funeral now.

So grab a bottle of wine or vodka, go to TheFuneralSite.com and make an awesome funeral without…

Fake Passengers – NZ Drivers Using Blow-Up Dolls to Beat Traffic Rules

(TrendHunter.com) Drivers are often irked when they face the minimum passenger requirements for entering some city downtown cores. However, in Auckland, New Zealand, they have resorted to some pretty ingenious ways of beating…