 Instruments Made of Food - Ocarina::Ocarina is described by Wikipedia as a flute-like wind instrument, made of various mediums, with origins in Chinese and Mesopotamian cultures.
However, the more unique version of Ocarina as referenced… [MORE] |
 Chicken Dancing Cheerleaders - Carl's Jr Jalapeño Chicken Sandwich Ads::If you’ve seen any Carl’s Jr commercials, thoughts of Paris Hilton and naughty school teachers probably come to mind. Building on the racier imagery, Carl’s Jr has launched another hot campaign to… [MORE] |
 Terrace Farming - Urban Gardens Boom in NYC::In the past when I've stayed with friends in New York, they - and it seems everyone else they know - eat out for every meal. That's all changing though. With the soaring cost of food prices, urban vegetable… [MORE] |
 Swarovski High Chairs - Icansit Blinged Baby Seat::You know how people tell rich kids that they were born with a silver spoon in their mouths? Well, now they can take it to a whole new level and say "Born on a silver chair". The special edition "I can… [MORE] |
 Personalized Steak - Custom BBQ Branding Irons::Coming this June is a customizable BBQ Branding Iron that allows you to create a message with a name or expression, or mark your steaks rare, medium or well-done. All you have to do is slide the letters… [MORE] |
 Food Themed Games - Cooking, Food Fights, Puking::Food Games are heating up in the gaming industry. Wii has many awesome games coming up that revolve around the theme of making food, fighting with food, or even farting and puking because of virtual foods.… [MORE] |
 Fast Food Tables - For Family Meals on the Run::This humorous table sure speaks volumes about the way modern family time has eroded to the point that people, if they eat at all together, have to eat on the run. Sometimes life is so hectic it feels like… [MORE] |
 BBQ Swords - Become Chef Zorro::Here's another picture that may be worth a thousand words.
If your summer barbecue ever becomes boring, try strapping on this handsome outfit; the ladies will love it!
Complete with the included mask… [MORE] |
 Arboreal Restaurants - Okinawa Tree House::This tree house restaurant is located on Highway 58 at the entrance of Onoyama Park in the south of Japan. The establishment, called Okinawa Tree House, is perched upon what looks like a real tree. But… [MORE] |
 McDonalds by Mobile - Japan's RFID Contactless Coupon Program::McDonald’s Japan has started an innovative new Contactless Coupon loyalty and payment program that has been under development for nearly a year. The program started with 175 stores and will expand gradually… [MORE] |
 Goldleaf Burgers - $175 Wallstreet Kobe Burger::We were excited about the first $100 hamburger, then astounded at the $5,000 Fleur Burger at Mandalay Bay in Vegas. But after the caviar burger and the $170 Kobe beef burger from Burger King this $175… [MORE] |
 Sexy Bakers Revive Office Tea Trolleys - Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Campaign::Kellogg's Nutri-Grain has just launched an online campaign to bring back the office tea trolley, a much missed tradition in the UK.
The campaign has a dedicated micro site which allows visitors to create… [MORE] |
 Animated Birthday Cakes - Celebrate With Moving Food::How fun is this?
With the continued media growth of the entertainment, food, and children’s birthday party industries, animated birthday cakes seem to be the product of natural demand progression.
On… [MORE] |
 Cone Crusts - Konopizza::Have you ever been inconvenienced while downing a slice of pizza while in a rush? Or fallen victim to sloppy pizza toppings landing on your lap? Or even worse, losing a whole pizza that fell off your plate?… [MORE] |
 Thorny Dish Racks - Hedgehog Dish Drainer::I never thought I could be excited about a dish drainer, but the Egouttoir Herisson En Kit looks more like an art sculpture than a tool to hold your dishes while they dry...
The unusual design of the… [MORE] |
 Overly Stimulating Ads - Swedish McDonalds Coffee Ads::Featuring cheesy family shots and corny music just won't make the cut for Swedish McDonald's commercials. In a way, it only makes sense to develop something as outrageous as this.
Since McDonalds has… [MORE] |
 Caffeinated Chips - Engobi::In need of a boost but can't stomach espresso or other energy drinks? Reach for a bag of caffeinated Engobi chips instead.
The 1.5 oz bags are packed with about double the caffeine of regular energy beverages,… [MORE] |
 Spirit Lifting Kitchenware - Chicks Dig You Cereal Bowl::What a fantastic way to start your day and pump yourself up: a cereal bowl that lifts your spirit up as it greets you with "You're the Man! You're Handsome! You're Strong! You're Charming!" As you finish… [MORE] |
 Taste Test Robots - Artificial Mouths::Food quality and flavours are of great importance in the food industry. Human taste-testers are still better at deciding if processed food is going to do anything for our palate. Recently, French scientists… [MORE] |
 Hip Super-Drinks - Yumberry Juice::Could Yumberry Juice be the next hip super-drink? By the raves it has been receiving and the health benefits of the Yangmei fruit, Yumberry is on course to be a winner. Produced in China by the Yumberry… [MORE] |
 Stomachs As Appliances 2 - Enzym Lefax Ads::Trend Hunter previously featured a witty Pepto-Bismol guerrilla campaign that turned Laundromats washing machines into stomachs. Here we bring you a print ad campaign that uses the opposite approach, transforming… [MORE] |
 Double-Ended Jars - Skforlee PB & J Jar::This has got to be one of the most ingenious, practical, yet obvious designs ever developed. Skforlee is promoting his ingenious double-ended jar for peanut butter, but the applications would not be limited… [MORE] |
 Chocolate Perfume Paints - Kaori by Galler::Galler is a Belgian chocolate brand founded by Jean Galler when he was only 21. Recently, Galler invented the kaori, a new way of experiencing chocolate.
The kaori is a box with six chocolate sticks… [MORE] |
 Banana Protectors 2 - Nana Banana Saver Prevents Browning::My secretary swears that if she eats a whole banana, she can't eat for the day again. If that sounds like you, then the Nana Banana Saver is for you. Cut your banana in two, clip on the banana saver and… [MORE] |
 Soda Float Gizmo - Fizz Cup::If you've ever tried making soda floats at home, you know the mess the creation of the pop and ice cream combo can be. It's fun to concoct, but you wouldn't want to do it anywhere you can't clean your… [MORE] |
 Coffee Makers of the Future - Nespresso Design Contest Winners::Well known for their sexy and creative coffee maker designs Nespresso gives us a peek at the future of coffee designs with the announcement of the winners of their second Nespresso Design Contest at an… [MORE] |
 Vegetables As Appliances - Antoine Lebrun's Aion Kitchen::Antoine Lebrun’s futuristic kitchen design called Aion Kitchen is supposed to answer the question, "What would a small kitchen look like in 10 years?" Brandt Aion is a multi functional kitchen which… [MORE] |
 Giant Gum Bubbles - Big Babol Ads::I must have invested hours as a kid trying to blow big, pink bubbles with my chewing gum. I could blow small ones, and every once in a while I managed a big one, but it never lasted long enough to be captured… [MORE] |
 Adopt an Olive Tree - Nudo Virtual Plant Fostering::Have you always imagined having your very own olive tree on a romantic Italian hillside? Now you can! Olive oil producers Nudo, lets you ‘foster’ an olive tree in their groves in La Marche Italy. You… [MORE] |
 Butter Sticks - Grease Sticks for Toast::The glue stick butter applicator is just the right combination of functionality and silliness. I’m not sure that this idea is a commercial reality, but I can definitely see the potential.
One can't… [MORE] |
 Space Produce - Mega Veggies Could End World Hunger::I wonder if these things have Air Miles? Mega Veggies are grown from seeds that were fired into space, where for two weeks, they orbited the Earth. Once returned, the seeds are cultivated in hothouses… [MORE] |
 Famous Apples to Promote Cereal - Eve & Snow White for Kellogs::To advertise the use of "more fruit than before" in Kellog's All-Bran Fruit'n Fibre cereal, JWT advertising agency brought in non-other than Snow White from the beloved children's fairy tale and our mother,… [MORE] |
 Transformer Coffee Cups - Multicultural En Terrasse / To Go Mug::While coffee is a universal drink, different cultures have different rituals and ways of drinking it. For example, while most people in New York City would have their coffee “to go” and drink it on… [MORE] |
 Junk Food Motorcycles - The Hamburglar Bike::Harry Sperl of Florida had this Harley bike customized to look like a really fat hamburger. I think it's a total riot!
"Frankly, I’m surprised we don’t see this kind of thing more often, since Harley’s… [MORE] |
 Sushi Cologne - Smell Like Dinner Wherever You Go::If you love the smell of Japanese restaurants, then you'll be excited to know you can experience the aromas of white rice, seaweed and fish wherever you go. Demeter created a sushi cologne that seeks to… [MORE] |
 Bread Parties - Dough Something Different in SF::Flour power has struck the west coast. While it sounds like something your grandma would have done as a young housewife, bread baking parties are actually a hip type of social get-together people in San… [MORE] |
 Barbaric Bread - Fresh Baked Heads::Believe it or not Artist Kittiwat Unarrom who has a family baking business is baking heads and other body parts.
Does that seem gruesome? You probably would be relieved if I told you that those heads… [MORE] |
 Boosted Caffeine - Starbucks Adds "Energy" To Drinks::There’s coffee, there’s espresso, and then there’s “energy” on the menu list of additives to get you powered up at Starbucks. They’ve added the option to enhance the caffeine in their already-stimulated… [MORE] |
 Luxury Fastfood - Hot Ducks::It seems with every new day comes a new addition to the Luxury junk food category. Yesterday we marveled at the caviar burgers at Serdendipity3, and now another New York company is serving up duck hot… [MORE] |
 Non-Dissolving Edible Packaging - Compost or Eat Your Containers::Let’s face it: current food packaging, on one hand, is useful to keep food fresher, but is wasteful. Think of all the plastic and polystyrene containers that are just tossed away after you bring food… [MORE] |
 Suburban Free-Range Meat - Squirrels An Ethical Meal?::Are squirrels the new tofu? Apparently, the little rodents have recently earned themselves the reputation of being an ethical delicacy in the UK. "Suburban 'free-range' meat," was what TreeHugger called… [MORE] |
 East & West Meet With Customization - Personalized Donut Fortune Cookies::Yes, culinary inventions that blend Asian and Western influences are alive and well... and of course, they have come a long way from the wonton self-packaging influence on the burrito.
The chocolate-covered… [MORE] |
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 Celebrity Junkfood - Tim McGraw Corn Chips::Take a tip from Tim McGraw this summer: if you're craving some smoky flavours this summer but don't want to risking getting a barbecue stain on your white Tshirt, try a bag of Spicy Jalapeno Fritos Corn… [MORE] |
 Free Range Humans - Disturbing Pro-Vegan Ads::Here is a marketing idea I hope NEVER becomes a popular trend.
If there ever was a picture worth a thousand words, this could be it. I was mortified when I saw it, and for the record, I'm not a vegetarian.… [MORE] |
 Culinary Assistants - Interactive Digital Cooking Aid::Hannah Plevin designed a very convenient device she calls an Interactive Digital Cooking Aid. This is a foldable, wall-mounted device with a fully adjustable, removable screen and a scale which comes with… [MORE] |
 $1,000 Sushi - Foie Gras High Roller at Koi::I'm a passionate sushi connoisseur, but even I couldn't fathom spending $1,000 on a roll. Apparently the chefs at Koi in New York didn't have customers like me in mind when concocting the High Roller,… [MORE] |
 Sogginess Preventing Cereal Bowls - EatMeCrunchy::Here's an invention that even a Chief Trend Hunter would enjoy! If you've ever taken cereal to work or school, you know you either have to pack the milk separately or deal with blobs of sogginess hardly… [MORE] |
 Soda Bottle Furniture - Chairs & Toys::Designer Jinhong Lin cuts the recycling cycle short by allowing you to instantly convert your soda bottles into a stool or table. I am not sure how comfortable this stool would be, but the table variation… [MORE] |
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