 Black Ear Swabs::The Japanese Heiwa Medic Co., Ltd. are the makers of a Western-world oddity - black cotton swabs. Supposedly, earwax shows up against a black background better than our white ones. In case you're wondering,… [MORE] |
 The Smoker's Bib - Fall Asleep With Your Lit Cigarette and Live::You might die a sickly, undignified death from emphysema. You could be ravaged by lung cancer that spreads to your other organs. Or you might have a hot date with an unforeseen heart attack. But you won’t… [MORE] |
 Useless Gadgets - USB Powered Weiner Dog Humps Your Computer::This innovation is unlikely to inspire global change, but it will make you laugh.
This USB-powered dog humps your computer when plugged in (see video).
Warning: Not suitable for young pups. [MORE] |
 Shoot Sponges at Real Children with Online Splatgun::Splatgun is a real gun (2 x 2 meters) that can be operated online from www.buitenspeelbond.nl. It fires sponges at real children playing outside.
The gun is an initiative from the Dutch Outdoor Play… [MORE] |
 Real Life Hacks - Control Any Elevator::The internet is enabling the democratization of real life hacks. In other words, people are using the net to share how to hack just about everything. In this case, we see a hack to control an elevator.… [MORE] |
 A Supersized Toilet For Your Supersized Ass::We are truly living in the gilded age. Western society has become so detached from basic survival skills, traditional labor and sweat, we're so fat and complacent, that we now need a special toilet to… [MORE] |
 Receptionist Robots (FOLLOW UP) - Wakamaru::Are receptionist robots the next big thing? This is the fourth receptionist robot Trend Hunter has discovered. Read the others HERE, HERE and HERE.
People Staff, a temporary staffing agency based in… [MORE] |
 Skintight Space Suits::Dava Newman (shown in photos), a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT, thinks that it's time to make our astronauts a tad more fashionable. OK, maybe that's not what… [MORE] |
 Flavored Canned Oxygen (Part 2) - Big Ox::Over a year ago, Trend Hunter featured OGO canned fruit flavored oxygen. The concept is so wonderful and bizarre that we had to follow it up with another canned oxygen provider, Big Ox.
A marketing blitz… [MORE] |
 Urban Mushing - Dog Powered Transportation::Why does this seemingly crazy stuff always start in Southern California? OK, here we go, so apparently a group of lazy Southern Californians were jealous that their dogs were getting less exercise than… [MORE] |
 Electronic Cigar - Smoke'em If You Got'em::Want all the wonderful features of a big fat cigar without inhaling a ton of tar? This faux-cigar uses "microelectronic control and supercritical atomizing technologies". Huh!? The upside: you don't need… [MORE] |
 Long Distance Golfing - Man Golfs Across Mongolia::Do you have to yell fore if no one is around to hear it? Ask Andre Tolme. Although he completed this feat in 2004, it isn't old news to those of us who didn't hear about it. He spent 90 days hitting 12,170… [MORE] |
 Grief Tourism - When Travelers Seek Tragedy::When we imagine "tourism," we imagine beaches, comfortable hotels, sometimes a sport, and at other times natural discovery. But now, darker forms of tourism are gaining popularity in an increasingly news-strung… [MORE] |
 Brand Obsession Driving Rogue R&D - Example: The Zippo'd iPod::Unfortunately, the Zippo'd Lighter / iPod is a fake. But the rising trend is that brand obsession with iPod is driving rogue research and development across the web. There are literally hundreds of fake… [MORE] |
 The Sex Calculator - Retro Trend of the Past::U.S. Patent Number 1428065 is a sex calculator. This was a device for predicting the sex of your child that was invented by HUBERT BOYDS TIDSWELL in 1920. Here's how it worked: you had to have already… [MORE] |
 Oregon Man Flies 200 miles in Lawn Chair Powered by 100 Helium Balloons::After making the trip in nine hours athveraging an attitude of 11,000 ft., Kent Couch the owner of the Stop and Go Mini-Mart in Bend, Oregon, was in good spirits and uninjured. He did however loose his… [MORE] |
 Orbo - Perpetual Motion Machine or Pie in the Sky?::A small Irish company, Steorn, is competing for world class chutzpah by having taken out a full page ad in The Economist challenging scientists to test their claims to have invented a perpetual motion… [MORE] |
 Flip Flop Art - Shoes for Your Feet or Wall::These sturdy foam-core flip-flops are printed with advertisements taken from a Chinese newspapers, which creates a fascinating design and if you read Chinese then you can get some past news on your Flip… [MORE] |
 Eating Contests Get Big - American Pride Restored After Dude Eats 66 Hot Dogs::Joy sprung though out the land as Japan’s Kobayashi’s stranglehold on this 12 minute hotdog eating suckdown sprint was broken and a new world record was set by the bloated and nauseous American, Joey… [MORE] |
 Ashtrays as Furniture - Commemorative July 01 UK Smoking Ban Art::I love this idea from the online pub come called The Albion. Smoking in public places was banned in the UK from the 01 July which makes this site bang on trend.
I will let the pictures from their 'July… [MORE] |
 USB Butt Cooler - For Cubicle Dwellers with Hot Buns::File this one under "Weird Japanese Inventions".
Thanko has developed the USB Butt Cooler. Apparently you place the cooling pad on the seat of your desk chair and plug it into your USB drive. It then… [MORE] |
 Kaiju - Japanese Monsters Invade The USA::Kaiju is a Japanese word that means “Strange Beast”. This term was popular in the 60s and 70s with the Japanese series Tokusatsu, but it got more popular with the appearance of Ultraman (The mythical… [MORE] |
 Amnesia Causing Drug - New Drug Erases Bad Memories::Everyone’s got something in their past they want to forget, even Paris Hilton. Now there is a pharmaceutical delete button. Why go through years of therapy or self-medication then rehab, when you can… [MORE] |
 Zorses - When Zebras and Horses Have Unprotected Sex::A zorse is what happened in a German safari park when a zebra named Ulysses got hot to trot for a horse named Eclipse. To the park keepers’ surprise Eclyse the zorse was born and she is rare even among… [MORE] |
 UFO Theories Are Back - Dead Roswell PR Officer Leaves Behind Sworn Affidavit Admitting to Aliens::After 60 years of sticking with the weather balloon story Lieutenant Walter Haut, who was the public relations officer at the Roswell base, issues a postmortem sworn affidavit testifying that the that… [MORE] |
 Love Patch - The Cure Of A Broken Heart::Ice cream, chocolate biscuits, champagne, films, tissues. The signs of a breakup. Or signs of giving up cigarettes. But we know, there’s probably a better solution for the latter one. So why wouldn’t… [MORE] |
 World's Ugliest Dog Contest in California::In Petaluma, California, the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest at Marin-Sonoma County Fair took place last week. Elwood, a 2-year-old Chinese Crested and Chihuahua mix, was crowned as the world’s ugliest dog.… [MORE] |
 MOBA - Museum of Bad Art for 'Art Too Bad to be Ignored'::Searching the web looking for The UncoolHunter I was pleased to find MOBA, The Museum of Bad Art . MOBA, located in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA, is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection,… [MORE] |
 Robot Clones - When iRobot Meets the Wax Museum::I was really amazed by this guy. He is a very talented sculptor who has made basically a clone model of himself and fitted it with robotics. I can see this as being the next big "toy" for millionaire's.… [MORE] |
 Portable Bum Washer - TOTO Offers Instant Cleanliness::Washing up after doing your business has become portable with the TOTO rear end washer. You just fill it with water, snap on the lid and stow it in your purse or bag until nature calls. After you've finished… [MORE] |
 Wooden Tie - When Lumber Meets Fashion::Gytha Mander has created a bizarre wood tie. Forgot cotton. Forgot silk. To be really original, wear this wood tie! It is amazing and stylish at the same time.
As noted on the official website, "Wood… [MORE] |
 Bone Pins - Look Like a Cannibal::Designer Ron Dotson created these original silver pins with the shape of a bone. As Blackbird says these bone pins have very fine, intricate detailing and are a great way to add a little something extra… [MORE] |
 Branded Bling Necklace - Freaky Collage of Logos in Gold::This Bling Bling necklace promoted as the "most branded product in the world," is a textured pendant necklace that takes industrial cues from household brands like Coca-Cola, Playboy, Diesel, BP, even… [MORE] |
 African Dental Sticks - Folk Medicine for your Smile::Across sub-Saharan Africa you will find people chewing on sticks and twigs, this is nature’s toothbrush. Users say that the sticks are more natural, cheaper, effective and medicinal than their plastic… [MORE] |
 Human Breast Milk Commercially Available For Babies in Japan?::We've all heard how breast is best for baby, but what if you can't or don't want to use your own? In Japan this product called "Mother's Milk" offers what may be human breast milk for your little bundle… [MORE] |
 Self-Healing Surfaces - Road Heal Thyself::Imagine if cracks in the road or in an airplane could heal themselves, kind of like you do when you get cut. That’s the idea that University of Illinois researchers have come up with. An epoxy-resin… [MORE] |
 Human-Animal Clones - Brits Advocate Scientific Testing::The need for human-animal clones was reached by expert British scientists in a recently released report. Apparently there are no laws against making human-animal embryos, yet (how did the Bush administration… [MORE] |
 Bullet Hole Shirts - Fashion on a Rampage::Attus Apparel thinks that "manufactured" holes in clothing are so yesterday. Instead, they offer the alternative of getting holes in your shirt in a more realistic and dangerous way. They sell bullet-hole… [MORE] |
 Environmental Nudity - 'World Naked Bike Ride' in Support of the Environment::That’s right the World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR), is a series international events bringing together environmentally conscious nudists from the world over to protest oil dependency, in major cities, by… [MORE] |
 Memorial Bikes - NYC Ghost Bike Project Pays Tribute to Deceased Cyclists::Ghost bikes are a phenomenon from New York - a memorial to those cyclists killed on the roads of the city. At traffic blackspots all over New York, white bicycles decorated with photographs of the victims,… [MORE] |
 Glow in the Dark Tattoos::Have you always wanted a tattoo but were afraid of what your boss will say? With glow in the dark tattoos you can cover yourself in body art and no one will be the wiser (unless they see you with the… [MORE] |
 Westernization of Toilets - Beijing Rethinks Squat Down Washrooms for Olympics::BYOTP – Bring Your Own Toilet Paper
That’s tip number one for anyone planning a visit to Beijing.
That and prepare to lower your standards as well as your stance – squatting is still the way they… [MORE] |
 Death By Cotton Candy And Other Food Obsessions By Visual Artist Daniela Edburg::Visual artist Daniela Edburg has created a gallery of work entitled "Drop Dead Gorgeous" to showcase our obsession with and love of food. There is an in-depth interview regarding this work at The Morning… [MORE] |
 Anti-Pervert Shot Guard Underwear - Blocks IR Cameras::The increase of IR photography has led certain junkies to take undesirable photos of females. The “Shot Guard” underwear aims to prevent such unwanted photography from occurring, and has already been… [MORE] |
 Eating Dog To Protest The Queen - Vegan Performance Artist Makes a Statement::The world is going to the dogs, literally. Last year Prince Phillip shot a fox but it held onto life for five minutes before it was clubbed to death by his hunting party. Months later, seeing that justice… [MORE] |
 Ingestible Silver Pills - Twenty Four Hours of Sparkly Poo In a Pill::Last year, Trend Hunter featured edible gold pills that let you ingest your wealth. Now you can ingest silver pills.
Does the world need twenty fours hours of sparkly poo in a pill? I don't know, but… [MORE] |
 Fake Beer For Kids - Japan's Sangaria Helps Get Your Kids Addicted::Our good friends at Kilian Nakamura point us to beer for kids! Sangaria is a Japanese company that markets juice to children by encouraging them to think it's beer. Everything about the drink convinces… [MORE] |
 Topless Car Wash Offers Lap Dances - Australians Outraged::Sydney Australia is in the worst drought of it's history that has led to ban against washing your own car. So now professional car washing services in Sydney are cleaning up in the profits department and… [MORE] |
 Corset Body Piercings - For The High Fashion Body Mutilator::Body piercing and modification has become like a sport where keeping up with the trends and shock value are a must. Here is an interesting entry in the world of piercings. It's called corset piercing.… [MORE] |
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