Top 29 Easter Themed Items - Eggcellent Innovations (SUPER GALLERY) (VIDEO)

Like just about every holiday, Easter has become highly commercialized. It marks the dawn of the spring season and is marked by images like tulips, baby chicks, bunnies, and everything pastel.

For a range of industries, from designers to marketers, it’s an excellent opportunity to flex creative skills to produce new products and services just for the occasion. Even companies like Telus use the occasion to market their cell phone plans, just look at the video above!

Easter is only one weekend of the year, but billions of dollars are spent on cards, flowers and food like duck. We mustn’t forget Easter candies too, for those obligatory egg hunts! That’s what I’m most eggcited about ;)

Check out this list of some of the top innovations to celebrate the Easter season, starting with a cluster of 15 egg-shaped things.

Pods - Top 15 Things that Are Round (SUPER GALLERY)

Many people have been trying to understand the latest “pod” obsession. Thanks to Microsoft (iMac, iPod, iTunes), the suffix has been added to all sorts of products. Trend Hunter rounded up some of this year’s best… and they aren’t all related. Which leaves us wondering: what exactly classifies som… [More]

Holiday Branding - Armani Easter Eggs

As a kid, I used to leave the Easter Bunny a few carrots, just to make sure I got some good chocolates. Now that I’m an adult, what do I have to do to make sure I get some Armani Easter Eggs this year? “Embossed with the unmistakable ‘A’ and delivered in a sky blue box dressed with a ribbon, these… [More]

Easter Egg Pimping - Egg Tuning (GALLERY)

My friend Alex posted these three great examples of egg tuning on his blog. What was the insight for this project? For Easter in Romania, everybody embellishes boiled Easter eggs. In some regions, the eggs are true pieces of art as they are painted manually in tens of shades and forms (and sometime… [More]

Designer Graffiti Easter Eggs - Celebrity Eggs For Charity

Thornton’s have come up trumps again with egg-cellent Easter PR Story. They have created five Easter eggs bearing the faces of Gordon Brown, Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, Lily Allen and Prince Harry. These people were chosen as they “represent a spectrum of British culture.” Yeah, yeah but we ar… [More]

Luxury Chocolate - £1 million Easter Egg

An Easter Egg costing £1 million is set to go on sale at Harrods this Easter. The Belgian chocolate half-egg is set with a necklace made from pear shaped and marquise diamonds from jeweller Edwin Solomon. The egg is part of a larger collection of gifts set in chocolate which Harrods will sell this… [More]

Snob Hats - Designer Easter Bonnets (GALLERY)

Wear one of these creations to church Easter Sunday and you better be prepared to drop a big bill in the collection plate. Or if fashion is your calling, then you better be prepared to drop a big bill to buy one of these chapeaus. If hats are your cult, you are on your own, or call your local Scient… [More]

Psycho Bunny Striped Tie

Add some flavour to your monkey suit with a psycho bunny tie.  You can pick up these cross bone enhanced bunnies at Neiman Marcus for $110. If you really get caught up in the psycho bunny branding, you can also buy a psycho bunny gold and diamond belt for $3,600. [More]

Seasonally Serial TV Spots - Cadbury Creme Egg Ads (VIDEO)

Cadbudy Creme Eggs have become a signal that spring is on the way. The chocolate-covered Easter goodies with the caramel and creme centers are returning to TVs already in not one, but a series of TV commercials. They’ve chosen the tagline, “Here today, goo tomorrow.” Check out the Hairdryer, Foot P… [More]

Chocolate Beauty Treatments For Men This Easter

WholeMan - the beauty parlour for men have a very groovy Easter Experience up their sleeve. A limited edition Easter Chocolate Experience. Costing £85 for the hour treatment, it makes a great non-edible chocolate Easter pressie for any vain man who loves in your life. Venezuelan Chocolate is appli… [More]

Lollibean - Jelly Belly Unveils the Next Generation of Lollipop

Jelly Belly has taken their delicious creation, the jelly bean, and turned it into something new. The Lollibean. Now you can savor the beans you love to your hearts content in a new long-lasting bean shaped pop. These tasty beans are also aesthetically pleasing, pure eye-candy. Jelly Belly has not… [More]

Parents Discouraged from Buying Live Easter Bunnies

Animal rights activists are discouraging parents from buying children live rabbits for Easter. Pet store owners fear that when the novelty wears off, nearly half of the rabbits sold at Easter time are abandoned when the new owners lose interest in them. The House Rabbit Society (HRS) claims that r… [More]

Interative Robot Pets - Segatoys Dreamchick (GALLERY)

No, it’s not a realistic sex doll! Dreamchick is the latest must-have gadget in the Japanese robotic pet movement. It’s a cute, little, lifelike robotic baby chick made by Segatoys that won’t grow into an ugly chicken and crap all over your house. Dreamchick has sensors so it “knows” whe… [More]

Religious Customs Before Social Life - Students Give Up MySpace and Facebook for Lent

I have heard of giving up candy, pop, and TV for Lent but never this.  But for some individuals, as they approach Easter, giving up Internet sites like Facebook and MySpace is not uncommon. [More]

Chocolate As Art - 6 Foot Tall Anatomically Correct Chocolate Jesus

Jesus has turned to chocolate for one of his many Easter appearences, thanks to a US based artist. Cosimo Cavallaro will unveil the his work of art - called My Sweet Lord- on 1 April in Manhatten, US. The sculpture took over 200 pounds of chocolate to create, and is said to be amazing by those wh… [More]

World’s First Chocolate Billboard

The World’s first chocolate billboard was unveiled in Covent Garden Plaza, London. Made for Thornton’s - the the news of the chocolate billboard is literally hot off the press - hence the press photographer is in the way! UPDATE: All 60 stone of the billboard were eaten by the public in three hou… [More]

Japanese Cops Get Cute - Bunny Ear Cruier Lights (VIDEO)

Police officers in Japan are adding an element of cute to their cruisers with new lights in the shape of rabbit ears. Do they have a real purpose? Is it just to make the confrontation with authorities less intimidating? The Osaka Prefectural Police Department bought 800 of these electric blue bu… [More]

Sony’s Viral Bravia Ad - Rolling Stones Boost Hi-Def Sales (VIDEO)

Trend Hunter covered Sony’s Explosion of Paint Commercial for the hi-def Bravia TV last October. Now a year later, we bring you their latest viral marketing campaign. “They’re the ones behind the ad with all the superballs bouncing down San Francisco’s hills,” MTV news reminds. “Their latest comme… [More]

Luxury Homes For Rabbits

At last a rabbit hutch that makes a style statement and keeps your fur baby happy and healthy. Available in a range of colours, the eglu offers a safe funky environment which your animals will love. The range also comes in syles suited for chicken & ducks. Hideously expensive but in my view worth e… [More]

Green Eggs - Mexican Chicken Lays Modern Marvels (VIDEO)

A chicken named Rabanita from Huecatitla, Mexico, has become a local celebrity after laying green eggs. Rabanita has been in all the local papers, featured on YouTube, and on Televisa TV. “My children say that God looks favorably on me so that I was given as a prize a chicken that lays green eggs,… [More]

$10 Million Fabergé Egg House - For Sale in Moscow

This four-story house designed like a huge Fabergé egg is for sale in Moscow. It is listed at $10 Million. It is located on Ulitsa Mashkova in a historic area of the city, which also has elite modern apartments. The house has never been lived in and only recently completed. It has been featured in … [More]

The Value of Rediscovered Art - $18M Faberge Egg

A previously unrecorded Faberge egg has been rediscovered. It’s a well known fact that when a previously unknown, but highly collectible, piece of art shows up, the art world gets out their checkbooks.  An engagement gift to Baron Edouard de Rothschild, the egg has a clock with a diamond set cockere… [More]

Could Faberge Become Cool? - Pallinghurst Buys Egg Brand; Plans to Launch Faberge Gemstones

The Faberge brand is synonymous with luxury, but its glamour days are long past.  However, a group of mining investors at Pallinghurst Resources have purchased Faberge with bold plans to revive the brand. Sean Gilbertson, a partner of Pallinghurst, explained, “What we want to do is create the worl… [More]

Kid Safety Pod - Nestt Egg Carseat (GALLERY)

Make something mandatory and chances are the design is going to be worse than child-like. It will be ugly. Nestt wants to change that. They have returned the child to the egg, something many mothers wish they could do on command. The design on the Nestt Egg Carseat is a charming solution to a fed… [More]

Japan’s Answer To Chia Pets - Nyokki Pet Planters (GALLERY)

Nyokki Pets If you understand Japanese, you probably have an idea of what these little pets are. For those who don’t, “nyokki” means “grow” in Japanese… and that can mean only one thing — cool little plant-haired buddies with which to entertain yourself. Nyokki Pets ($20, set of 2) feature on… [More]

Design Meets Technology - Marcel Wanders Takes His Shot at Stereos

There are a bunch of products I’ve featured by Marcel Wanders in the past. There’s the Microwave with the TV in the door. Then there was the City System Shelving for Mooi. All, beautiful stuff. But this is the first design that I could actually use in my home and could afford to buy. Well what i… [More]

Eggvertising Update - Japan Joins the Advertising on Eggs Game

Remember last year when we introduced you to Eggvertising?  The US was the pioneer on this one, but now Japan has entered the game. That’s right, Japan is now adveritsing on eggs! Takako Maruyama, a spokeswoman at public relations firm Sunny Side Up Inc. said “The chance of people taking the ad… [More]

Egg Chair - Doctor Riter’s ErgoChair

Being a couch or a mouse potato is a tough job.  Sitting and slouching for hours results to poor posture which results to back pains and leg cramps.  Even a simple object known as a chair should be carefully understood for its architectural and geometrical structure in order to bring forth an act c… [More]

Egg Chairs - Tato Collection by Baleri & Santachiara

Why sit on a stool or chair when you can sit on an egg?  Priced from $417 each. “‘tato’ family designed by enrico baleri and denis santachiara for baleri italia. the tato series is a surprisingly comfortable group of polyurethane spheres, ovals and other shapes suitable for use as footrests or stoo… [More]

Smart Egg Shows You When It’s Done

It’s a fact: you can’t boil an egg.  Now, researchers in England are helping to give you a little more guidence with an egg that shows you when it is done. From the Times Online: DESPITE the best efforts of Delia Smith, millions of Britons will readily admit that they cannot boil an egg.  The exper… [More]