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    <title>TREND HUNTER Magazine</title>
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arabaquarius's Latest Trends
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    <dc:date>2008-05-17T19:48:00-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Explosive Furniture &#45; Grenade Drawers (GALLERY)</title>
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Los Carpinteros&apos; work was recently featured an PBS&apos; Frontline/World in a report about Cuban art. 

Other interesting and unusual p&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 13:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Hitting With Words &#45; Domestic Violence: Verbal Abuse (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/verbal-abuse"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18727_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) This powerful PSA campaign from Singapore successfuly illustrates how verbal abuse can be just as horrific as physical violence. This is an important issue to raise awareness of, as many people do not realize that vicious domestic verbal abuse can actually have longer lasting effects and hurt their &#8230;</description>
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      <title>PC Integrated Desks &#45; Sync (GALLERY)</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 12:32:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Group Therapy Parodies &#45; Apple Ad: PCs Living with Vista (VIDEO)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/pcs-living-with-vista"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18723_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) &quot;Hi, I&apos;m a PC and I am living with Vista!&quot; That is the latest twist and (below the belt) hit Apple takes at Microsoft&apos;s expense in their well&#45;known &quot;Hello, I&apos;m a Mac. Hello, I&apos;m a PC&quot; series. The spot likens using the wildly ill&#45;received and underwhelming Vista operating system to living with a dise&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Intelligent Whiteboards &#45; Microsoft TouchWall (VIDEO)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/microsoft-touchwall"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18634_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Bill Gates demonstrated a new multi&#45;touch computer and interface, called the TouchWall, at the Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond on May 14. 

While Microsoft Surface&apos;s steep price tag of $10,000 makes it too expensive for the average consumer, TouchWall is the poor man&apos;s surface; with the system being&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 19:01:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Air Quality Detecting Fashion &#45; EPA Dress</title>
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Designer Stephanie Sandstrom&apos;s EPA Dress, which is currently showing at the 2nd Skin Exhibition at San Franc&#8230;</description>
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      <title>AMOLED Notebooks &#45; Samsung Prototype</title>
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The prototype, which will be showcased for the first time next week at the Society For Information Display (SID) 2008 in LA, fe&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 18:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Customizable Android Phones &#45; Mimique (GALLERY)</title>
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One example is the Mimique touchscreen phone concept by RKS design consultants of southern California that looks like the lov&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:33:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Flannel Shirts Return &#45; Dolce &amp; Gabbana Pre&#45;Fall 2008 (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/dolce-pre-fall-2008-ads"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18672_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) While we&apos;re just starting to warm up to the Spring and waiting for the Summer, Dolce &amp; Gabbana are already over it. The uber stylish fashion brand are wetting our appetite for the cold season with these brand new Pre&#45;Fall 2008 ads.

Shot by famous fashion photographer Mario Testino, the campaign fea&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Rotary Dial iPhones &#45; iDial (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/idial"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18669_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Combine cutting&#45;edge gadgets and retro style with this awesome beyond words rotary, analogue style dialler iDial application for the iPhone. 

In a clash of the past and present technologies, iDial utilizes the iPhone&apos;s innovative multi&#45;touch capabilities with the ancient but cool dialler of analog &#8230;</description>
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      <title>Bikini Model Statues &#45; Blush: Stop Nudism (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/blush-stop-nudism"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18706_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) What a smart and cost&#45;effective idea to use popular statues to model your latest fashion line. At least you know they&apos;d show up on time!

That&apos;s exactly what Blush swimwear &quot;Stop Nudism&quot; campaign did. The creatives at glow ad agency, Berlin took it to the streets and used statues as models with stic&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:14:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Coffee Makers of the Future &#45; Nespresso Design Contest Winners (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nespresso-contest-winners"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18665_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) 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 awards ceremony in Milan. 

The four winning designs are:

First place: ”Untitled&quot; by Brice Genr&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 15:07:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Eco Heroes &#45; WWF: Be The Hero Campaign (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/wwf-be-the-hero"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18705_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Rather than shock and disturb you with violent or crude images this fun WWF Be The Hero campaign shows you that you can be the hero and save the planet by adjusting your lifestyle with small acts or awareness.

The  campaign consists of five print ads that illustrate how a normal average person can &#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Adding Fun To Organization &#45; The Butt Station (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the&#45;butt&#45;station</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-butt-station"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18661_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) With the clutter and tens upon tens of gadgets and stationary sprinkled and spread across my desk, why not add another one that can actually help organize and reduce the mess? I am not sure though that I would choose Urban Outfitters  quirky organizing tool which is called The Butt Station. I kid yo&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Blooming Light Designs &#45; Agave Inspired Aloe Lamps (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/aloe-lamps"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18711_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the Agave plant, a tropical cactus with distinctive fleshy&#45;leaved flowers, new zealand born, london&#45;based designer jeremy cole launched his promising design career with this beautiful Aloe lamps collection. 

The Aloe collection includes three designs &#45; the Bud, which represents the birt&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Masking Censorship &#45; World Press Freedom Ads</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/censorship-in-disguise"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18639_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Censorship is one of the things I hate most, and the most dangerous kind of censorship is the sly and subtle kind that creeps in without making a fuss or grand entrance.  It’s the little measures and twisted, undercover ways which go unnoticed and undisputed that abuse people’s rights. That’s &#8230;</description>
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      <title>Crude Imagery for Awareness &#45;  Blood of Earth on Your Mouth (GALLERY)</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/shockvertising-refillable-bottles"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18619_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Going for a variation of “having the blood of someone on your hand,” this new campaign for Brita water filtration pitchers and Nalgene refillable bottles warns us that we are murdering our planet and that we have its blood (oil) on our mouths… 

The ads depict people with unpleasant&#45;looking cr&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:46:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Virtual Girlfriends &#45; INBED: Never Sleep Alone</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/inbed"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18664_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Consumed with his graduate school program and motivated by a loneliness I can totally identify with, New York University student Drew Burrows showcased INBED, an &quot;infrared&#45;sensitive&quot; light projected virtual girlfriend, at NYU&apos;s Interactive Telecommunications Program Spring Show at Tisch School of th&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Amorphous Fashion Watches &#45; Strobe</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/strobe-watch"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18624_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the works of the artist Giger, designer Benjamin Wysk used Giger&apos;s amorphous forms as a biomechanical symbiosis in his Strobe watch design &quot;to reflect there the person and the clock.&quot;

According to Wysk, the design, which is an entry in the Signity watch design contest 2008, is for peopl&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Guerrilla Fairytale Campaigns &#45; Rapunzel for Pantene (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/rapunzel&#45;pantene</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/rapunzel-pantene"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18641_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) A fun guerrilla campaign to promote Pantene Anti&#45;Breakage Shampoo has just been deployed in Toronto, Canada.  

The campaign uses enormous braids a la Rapunzel that dangle from buildings, complete with a dummy of a man climbing them. The obvious nod to the well&#45;known fairytale is used to demonstrate&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Breath Name Tags &#45; SMINT: Hello, My Name is... (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/smint&#45;hello&#45;my&#45;name&#45;is</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/smint-hello-my-name-is"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18655_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) How about approaching someone cute you&apos;d like to get closer to and introducing yourself with, &quot;Hello, my name is Onion&quot;? I would say, you would be one lonely person. That is the witty approach of this new SMINT breath mints campaign that uses &quot;Hello, my name is..&quot; party tags to reflect what your bre&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Creative Open Church Promotion &#45; Black, Female &amp; Hip Jesus (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/promoting&#45;open&#45;churches</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/promoting-open-churches"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18622_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland promotes their diverse and open nature with a message of “Room for faith you consider yours” in a campaign that depicts Jesus as a female and a black man. 

My favorite however is a hip dude Jesse who “really digs ya, man,” which continues with “A&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Wind&#45;Up Promotional Toys  &#45; McDonald&apos;s Cranks it Up for Coffee (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mcdonalds&#45;coffee</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/mcdonalds-coffee"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18660_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Be warned Starbucks, McDonald&apos;s is making a very strong push to promote its coffee. Following the unusual Sort Your Head outdoors campaign, Alma DDB has created a fun print ad campaign promoting McDonald&apos;s premium roast coffee.

The &quot;Wake up with a premium roast coffee&quot; campaign features wind&#45;up toy&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 14:42:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Cell Phones for Seniors 2 &#45; Easy Mobile Calling (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/emc&#45;phone</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/emc-phone"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18659_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) The EMC (easy mobile calling) phone by designer Matthias Pinkert is targeted at growing baby boomer demographic. As they age, designers are trying to come up with products and designs to keep them up to date with technology while still taking their age into consideration.

The EMC phone features fou&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:38:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Coffin Tables &#45; Memento Coffee Table Casket (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/memento&#45;coffee&#45;table</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/memento-coffee-table"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18642_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Designed by Charles Constantine, Memento is a wooden coffee table that can store books, magazines and other personal mementos during your lifetime. The design twist is that it also awaits your death to store YOU. As a bonus, an open casket is easily arranged with the conveniently removable top piece&#8230;</description>
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      <title>iMac&#45;Simulating iPhone Stands &#45; Just Mobile Xtand (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/just&#45;mobile&#45;xtand</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/just-mobile-xtand"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18656_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) This has got to be the best looking iPhone stand yet, and somehow it makes your iPhone look like a minature iMac. The Just Mobile Xtand  can hold your iPhone vertically or horizontally, and rotates a full 360 degrees offering the ultimate flexible viewing experience with adjustable viewing angles.

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      <title>Famous Apples to Promote Cereal &#45; Eve &amp; Snow White for Kellogs</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/snow&#45;white&#45;eve&#45;apples</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/snow-white-eve-apples"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18620_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) To advertise the use of &quot;more fruit than before&quot; in Kellog&apos;s All&#45;Bran Fruit&apos;n Fibre cereal, JWT advertising agency brought in non&#45;other than Snow White from the beloved children&apos;s fairy tale and our mother, the first female, Eve.

While it&apos;s usually one red apple in the hand of Eve or snow white, we&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Transformer Coffee Cups &#45; Multicultural En Terrasse / To Go Mug (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/en&#45;terrasse&#45;to&#45;go</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/en-terrasse-to-go"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18617_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) 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 the move, you’d be hard pressed to find the same in Paris, where the typical coffee drinking is &#8230;</description>
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      <title>Fake Mutated Animals &#45; Fantasy Hunt for Hightech (VIDEO)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hunt&#45;for&#45;hightech</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hunt-for-hightech"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18580_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) After being introduced to the brilliant Bart Hess through his lucyandbart collaboration with Lucy McRae, my fascination is further solidified by his latest project: The Hunt for Hightech.

With his Hunt for Hightech art project, Hess created a collection of fake fur that touches on elements of fetis&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:12:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Sneaky Musical Promos &#45; Apple Mac Music Video Ad (VIDEO)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/apple&#45;mac&#45;music&#45;video</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/apple-mac-music-video"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18583_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) The tech blogosphere has been fascinated by this cleverly edited video by digital filmmaker Dennis Liu. Essentially it&apos;s a music video for the song Again and Again by The Bird and the Bee using all sorts of cool software, utilities and programs running on an Apple Mac Leopard operating system.

Ther&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Disguising Technology &#45; Fake Book Hardbox Drive (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hardbox</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/hardbox"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18582_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Now you can hide your data with this stylish Hardbox enclosure that looks like a hard cover book. In addition to keeping your desk looking more “educated”, you can hide the data on your 3.5 inch hard drive from prying eyes. This disguise would blend in too well next to your Harry Potter books.

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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:36:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Phones of 2012 &#45; Express, Share &amp; Feel (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/provoke&#45;phone&#45;2012</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/provoke-phone-2012"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18598_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Finnish company Provoke Design, one of Nokia&apos;s main design contractors, has created three concept phones that represent their vision of mobile phone design in 2012. The prototypes will be on display at the HARDCORE New Finish Design exhibition in New York starting May 17th. 

The three phone models &#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Anonymous Texts at Bus Stops &#45; Big Brother&apos;s Creepy Bluetooth Campaign (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bluetooth&#45;big&#45;bro</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bluetooth-big-bro"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18561_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) To promote popular reality show Big Brother 2008 on Channel TEN in Australia, advertising agency Marketforce in Perth came up with a unique bluetooth SMS campaign that really caught people by surprise. The ads embodied the &quot;Big Brother is watching&quot; slogan, which is the essence of the show.

The camp&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Green Energy Producing Canopies &#45; Cobra Solar Shades (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/veil&#45;solar</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/veil-solar"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18566_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) It is solar energy overload at Trend Hunter this week. Following yesterday&apos;s peel &amp; stick solar panels, we bring you the venomous, cobra&#45;inspired Solar Shades Canopies. Designed by Buro Nort , the idea was to harvest solar energy while providing cooling shade for kids at schools. This design hits tw&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Secret Drawer Cubes &#45; Fractal 23</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fractal&#45;23</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fractal-23"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18568_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Takeshi Miyakawa&apos;s unique Fractal 23 design utilizes each and every inch of a cube by having a whopping 23 functional drawers. Suddenly that abstract and minimalistic&#45;looking cube becomes much more exciting! 

There are drawers on each side, which means you have to give it enough space if you want f&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:26:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Amphibious Muscle Cars &#45; 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Boat (GALLERY)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/corvette&#45;stingray&#45;boat</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/corvette-stingray-boat"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18569_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) Swedish designer Bo Zolland creatively fuses an iconic American muscle cars, such as the 1963 Corvette Stingray, with boat designs. The result? One hell of a series of bad&#45;ass watercraft! 

Somehow Zolland manages to make the designs look both retro and futuristic at the same time. 

Here are some s&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:53:00 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Artvertising With Hands &#45; HTC: Set Your Fingers Free (VIDEO)</title>
      <link>http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fingertising&#45;htc&#45;set&#45;your&#45;fingers&#45;free</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/fingertising-htc-set-your-fingers-free"><img src="http://www.trendhunter.com/images/phpthumbnails/18563_1_120.jpeg" width=120 height=120 align=right border=0></a> ]]> (TrendHunter.com) This is an awesome video ad for smartphone brand HTC that stars.... a pair of fingers! 

The “Set your fingers free” spot follows a pair of fingers from their house through several beautifully detailed miniature scenes that include playgrounds, forests, busy cities, subway trains, dance clubs as&#8230;</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:09:00 -0400</pubDate>
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The motivation behind HandGlove, a project by engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University, was to enable easy com&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Peel &amp; Stick Solar Panels &#45; Lumeta PowerPly (VIDEO)</title>
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The key innovation in the L&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Medical Nanotechnology Breakthroughs &#45; Nanohealing Material Stops Bleeding</title>
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While they love the concept, Yanko Design dissects the mechanism and thinks its pre&#45;mature, given the cu&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Burning Inhumane Images &#45; Amnesty International Picture Campaign (GALLERY)</title>
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The campaign ingeniously uses the logo of Amnesty Internationa&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Packaged Brains &#45; Poly&#45;Wrapped Business Card (GALLERY)</title>
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As a fresh newcomer in freelancing, Pettersson wanted to approach some creative directors by delivering them a small poly&#45;&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Extreme Sports Cameras &#45; Rush (GALLERY)</title>
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The idea behind his innovative sport and action camera is to mo&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Free Money as Advertising &#45; Absolut Cash Machine (GALLERY)</title>
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Working with TBWA ad agency in B&#8230;</description>
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      <title>All&#45;Star Show Design Contest &#45; Converse Chuck Taylor MyChucks Competition (GALLERY)</title>
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The Chuck Tay&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Hand&#45;Drawn Fashion &#45; Illustrated T&#45;Shirts (GALLERY)</title>
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Dave is not a teenager with a hobby for drawing, he is a professional designer / copywriter / illustrator, with clients including the New York Times, Sundance Channel and Vice.&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Physical Websites &#45; Art Installation Becomes World&apos;s First &apos;Analog Website&apos; (GALLERY)</title>
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It is a statement and social commentary about our obsession with all things digital.

Yanko Design explains,&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Ancient Greek Sandal Skateboard &#45; Tougher than Leather (GALLERY)</title>
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You can not get any more old school than ancient Greece!

The made to order Tougher Than Leather skates are as much a fashion statement&#8230;</description>
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      <title>Mutated Humans as Art &#45; Lucy and Bart (GALLERY)</title>
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They both share a fascination with genetic manipulation and expressions of beauty&#8230;</description>
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