Greg Ponesse & His Top 20 Trends

Constantly looking for what’s new and exciting, Greg maintains his innovativeness through his cooking, fashion and travel adventures.  Having spent most of his career in media consulting at Factiva, A Dow Jones and Reuters Company.  Now, Greg is the Director of Sales at a start up a company in Email Management.  For Greg, contributing to TrendHunter Magazine is not only fulfilling and stimulating, but also enables him to share his entrepreneurial interests and opinions to those who can relate.

Aside from enjoying a fast-pace environment in the work-place, Greg loves to entertain, travel, play team sports and cook.

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Greg Ponesse’s 20 Most Popular Trends

1. Real Sex on Screen - Is the Shortbus Film Porn or Art?

In the recent film Shortbus, the actress and actor actually had sex to create the movie.  Is that Porn or Art? [More]

2. Real Life Sex Doll Robots

Say goodbye to late night trips to the local strip club or late evenings surfing the web.  The time has come for those looking to put a little more reality into their sex life. [More]

3. Naked wedding photos a hit in once conservative China

Forget the Mao suits of a generation ago. Actually, forget about any clothes at all. Naked wedding photos are the hot new trend among young couples in once deeply conservative China.  Even in Anhui, a largely rural province in the east, many newly-weds are having their pictures taken in the nude, to… [More]

4. Tofu with a twist

Brands of tofu with unusual names like “Handsome Tofu” and “Johnny the Tofu Maker, Blowing in the Wind” have been attracting attention on the Internet and around town, not just for their names but also for their exquisite flavor. Though a single pack costs two or three times more than regular tofu, … [More]

5. Are Married Couples Really Having More Sex than Swinging Singles?

It has been thought that married couples just don’t get busy in the bedroom and that the single life is the way to go.  However, recent trends state differently. From the Globe and Mail.com: According to findings from dozens of countries that belie the urgent message of supermarket self-help magaz… [More]

6. A Burning Need for More Porn

If you could buy a porn video, download it in about an hour and burn it to a DVD that will play in any standard drive, would you do it? What if it had built-in digital rights management (DRM) code that only let you burn the file to disk one time, and one time only? Vivid, arguably the most tech-sav… [More]

7. Apple iPhone - New Killer Phone in the Works

Is Apple about to further diversify its suite of products and expand in the wireles market.  If this apparent ‘I-Phone’ is as successful as the iPod, Nokia and Motorola have some strategizing to do. [More]

8. Jeans made out of sugar cane

A Japanese company is making jeans out of a blend of sugar cane and selvage denim. The cane used is Sweet Sorghum, otherwise known as Sweet Millet. It’s a type of grass grown all over the world for making a molasses-like syrup and animal feed. The Sugarcane jeans that feature this fiber have a faint… [More]

9. Porn Says Yes to HD DVD

Why is it that the adult industry always leads the charge into new technology? We have all witnessed the war between Betamax and VHS but little did many people know that the reason why VHS prevailed is because the porn industry was in favour of the VHS technology. It is the porn industry that actual… [More]

10. Create your own video game using Microsoft Software

Hoping to spur interest among video game enthusiasts, creative types and students, Microsoft Corp. said it plans to offer a consumer version of the professional software tools used to create video games for its Xbox 360 console. The XNA Game Studio Express program, an offshoot of the company’s more… [More]

11. The Cult of Leia’s Metal Bikini

As movie costumes go, it was both small and fleeting, occupying only two minutes of screen time in Return of the Jedi, which many call the weakest of the original Star Wars films. But nearly a quarter-century later, Princess Leia’s slave-girl costume occupies a unique position in pop culture and sho… [More]

12. Japanese Men Getting Big on Girdles

As Japanese waistlines expand, so is the market for girdles—for men. A new line of male underwear that flattens the stomach and lifts the hips proved so popular when introduced on a trial basis last month that some stores quickly sold out.  “Men are getting so much more fashion conscious these d… [More]

13. Fashion Is The New Priority When Choosing Cell Phones

In the past, the bells and whistles were what most consumers looked for when selecting a cell phone.  However, times are now changing. [More]

14. Monster versus Red Bull

How does a booming company spark new growth the year after its sales nearly double and its stock skyrockets 333 percent? If you’re Hansen Natural, maker of Monster Energy drinks, you start by signing a two-year endorsement deal with Ricky Carmichael, the Michael Jordan of motocross and supercross ra… [More]

15. Osama bin Laden’s Niece to Model in GQ

Her uncle may be the world’s most elusive fugitive, but Osama bin Laden’s niece is about as conspicuous as she can be in a sexy photo shoot in the January edition of the men’s fashion magazine GQ.  Wafah Dufour is an aspiring New York-based musician who told the magazine that her family ties to the… [More]

16. Sleep Is The New Sex - Is it Time to Re-evaluate the Relationship?

It has been predicted that in 2007 we will start to see couples not only enjoy the act of sex, but apparently more important, a good night’s sleep.  This will be managed by creating adjoining bedrooms within the master bedrooms of the house.  This will enable couples to choose when to be initmate or… [More]

17. New Species of Shark Caught on Video-What Else Is Out There? (VIDEO)

Who would have known that there is a new species of shark that is rarely seen alive?  Due to the fact that its natural habitat is about 2,000 feet under the sea, it raises discussion that there is considerably a lot more wild life that marine biologists are not aware of. [More]

18. Shiloh, The Fashion Icon.

THE T-shirt worn by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby in her first photo-shoot has sparked a shopping frenzy across America. Gorgeous Shiloh Nouvel wore a top featuring skull and cross spoons, pots and pans, and the words “The Pots & Pans Band” scrawled over a pair of angel wings on the front… [More]

19. Cybersex - New Technology Makes it Better than the Real Thing?

Is cybersex going to be better than the real thing?  It is at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.  Cybersex has inspired these sexgineers and artists to come up with new ways to use technology for pleasure and relationships.  This market is becoming so enormous that porn might be pushed to th… [More]

20. Chinese Domain Name Sells For $160,000

A sale of Chinese Internet domain names netted more than $160,000 on Friday in what organizers said was the biggest such auction yet in the computer-crazy country. A pair of sites named for ultra-mobile personal computing (umpc.cn and umpc.com.cn), one of the hottest technologies around, fetched an … [More]