Top 30 Products You Can Customize in 2008 H1

From custom CLOUD machines to coffee printers, 2008 has welcomed an explosion of customizable products.  This delicious list features our top 30 customizable products.

It’s nice to see that Custom TrendHunter.com layouts made the list, but it shouldn’t have beaten the customized granola bar…

This is one of many features in our new FREE Micro Trend Reports section.

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Top 30 Products You Can Customize

1. Design Your Own Shoes Part II - Custom Vans

Custom Vans for fifty bucks? Nope not a mommy van, but a shoe. Van’s has developed a whole lifestyle around their brand. By sponsoring skateparks, events, entertainment, they have a very loyal following.… [More]

2. Futuristic Custom Desk - Vision One Computer Desk (GALLERY)

Look at this desk and tell me you don’t think of banging on those pads like Larry Mullen of U2. Well, budding skin-banger, this is not for that purpose. The Vision One Computer Desk is for working or gaming.… [More]

3. Custom Commercials - Your Custom Tattoos Star in Brazilian Beer Ad

I’m just nuts over interactive ads and this is a great one. It for the Brazilian Antarcita beer. You put your name in and somebody else’s name too. The names then appear on live characters - not cartoons.… [More]

4. Custom Built Cell Phones - zzzphone

Have you ever wanted a custom built phone with all the fancy oooo’s and ahhh’s that you could choose to meet your every need? Thanks to zzzphone, this once dream is now a reality. Comparing themselves… [More]

5. Customized Fake Eyelashes - Beauty Lashes Out (GALLERY)

False eye lashes are still a scorching hot beauty accessory, but everyone has their own idea of what they’re comfortable wearing. Some women like to keep their fake lashes on the natural side, some like… [More]

6. DIY Graffiti Keyboards - Custom K3YB04RD

Who says you have to shell out hundreds of dollars on an Optimus Maximus keyboard to have a colorful unique one?

Any plain keyboard coupled with a mix of marker pens, paint, stickers, assorted decor and… [More]

7. Top 11 Custom Shoes - Artistic & DIY Footwear (SUPER GALLERY)

One of the biggest movements in fashion footwear is giving customers the opportunity to customize. Both in store and online personalization are now options being offered by a number of shoe companies.… [More]

8. Customized Clouds - Cloudvertising with Flogos (VIDEO)

Trend Hunter has already introduced you to moonvertising, now get ready for cloudvertising which uses Flogos , or Flying Logos.

Francisco Guerra, the inventor of Flogos describes them as “a revolutionary… [More]

9. Custom Luxury Watches - One of a Kind Kudoke Skeleton Watches (GALLERY)

These are Kudoke German Skeleton luxury watches. The watches are one-of-a-kind hand-made models that also comes with hand-engraving.

Kudoke only makes a handful of these intricate watches so you can imagine… [More]

10. Customizable Hi-Tech Soccer Shoes - Adidas F50 TUNiT (GALLERY)

The F50 TUNiT is the new customizable hi-tech Adidas boot unveiled recently in the UAE.

The boot allows players to choose among the different looks the shoes has to offer.

“Choose the fit and comfort… [More]

11. Limited Edition Gadgets - Courvoisier Customized iPhone, Curve, iPod (GALLERY)

Famous Cognac brand Courvoisier has created an intruiging limited edition collection of customized iPhones, Curves, and iPods.

The collection features a surprisingly elegant shade of orange with artistic… [More]

12. Matte is the New Glossy - Automakers Customize Car Finishes

In recent years, safety and technology have found themselves on a level playing field between auto manufacturers.  At the 2008 North American Auto Show in Detroit, automakers made lengthy efforts to emphasize… [More]

13. Customizable Android Phones - Mimique (GALLERY)

With Google’s new open source Android OS expected to be out soon, we are seeing more and more mobile phone designs and concepts that utilize the much anticipated platform.

One example is the Mimique… [More]

14. Custom Cigarette Packs - Build Your Own Death Project (GALLERY)

Build Your Own Death Project obviously is an anti-smoking endeavor that adds creative flair and interactivity in their campaign. Launched by a Chilean agency, BYODP offers smokers the chance to create… [More]

15. Hot Rod Jewelry - Custom Cuffs to Showcase Your Own Rod

Hot Rod Jewelry is the creation of silversmiths and hot rod enthusiasts Brad Johnson and Alicia Hanson. 

The two combined their skill of silver-smithing with their love for vintage cars. The result is… [More]

16. Custom Color Jobs For Your Tech - ColorWare (GALLERY)

An item that is inseparable from the geek lifestyle: a MacBook. Or dreaming about a MacBook. Or if you’re like me, it’s dreaming of a baby blue (as blue is the new pink, for your information) MacBook.… [More]

17. Customizable Light Fittings - Tile + Light

These way cool tiles have customizable light fittings so that they can be arranged in any manner of ways. Tile + Light can be used strictly as architectural enhancement, or as a way to subtly light a space.… [More]

18. Coffee Printer - Custom Edible Ink Images (VIDEO)

“Give me a grande caramel espresso drink with an… image of the Mona Lisa painting on top. No! Make it that picture of me and my grandma at the Grand Canyon. Here, it’s on this flash drive.”

You wouldn’t… [More]

19. Custom Rock Band and Guitar Hero Instruments - ArtGuitar Controllers

These beautifully pimped out guitars were inspired by the popular video games Guitar Hero and Rock Band. The limited edition guitars which were put out by ArtGuitar were hand-painted with familiar images… [More]

20. 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]

21. My Trend Hunter - Customize TrendHunter.com With Over 15 Hot Layouts!

Now you can customize your TrendHunter.com landing page with over 15 hot layouts.  Love pictures? Do you like ‘em big or small?  Once you make up your mind, you can save the layout as your default screen… [More]

22. Customized Energy Bar - YouBar Build-A-Bar (GALLERY)

Remember the customized cereal, MyMuesli? That’s great for eating at home, but for picky eaters wanting to choose what they eat on the go too, there are now energy bars to you create yourself!

The YouBar… [More]

23. Customized Robot Jeeves - Virtual Butler Summoned Through Magic Mirror (GALLERY)

Imagine never having to stick your hand in a toilet bowl again, never having to scrape crusted on food off a pan or never having to scrub at scuff marks on the floor. In the future, you could have a robot… [More]

24. Custom Made Cereal - MyMuesli (VIDEO)

Just as famous as Germany is for Bratwurst and Sauerkraut, it’s well known for Muesli.

Muesli (aka Müsli and Mueslix) is a mix of cereals comprised of a combination of grains, nuts and dried fruit.… [More]

25. Custom Flickr Cards - Phreetings

Phreetings is a really neat site that lets you create your own photo ecards using images from Flickr. I’m not sure if it’s Flickr endorsed as there’s no information on the site.

The cards are easy to… [More]

26. Custom Sneakers - Sole Brother (GALLERY)

Matt Francois makes some killer custom sneakers and calls them Sole Brother. He’s based in Winnipeg and has thunk up some fantastic designs. They don’t give up the original quality of the shoe, just add… [More]

27. Customized Ferrari 612 Scaglietti - New One-to-One Personalisation Program (GALLERY)

Ferrari recently launched a new “One-to-One Personalisation Program” at the Geneva Motor Show. The program allows buyers to fully customize their car by choosing details and materials they want in… [More]

28. Custom Cartoons With Your Kid - Kideo.com Creates Custom DVDs (VIDEO)

Now your child can swing across buildings as Spiderman or sing along with Barney, in Barney! How does this work? It’s pretty simple. Upload a picture of your child to kideo.com and it would be cropped… [More]

29. Innovative Custom Laptop Decor - SkinStyler Trackpad Skins (GALLERY)

We’ve seen countless computer skins before, iPhone skins and funky mouse pads, but the newest form of personalizing your electronics is decorating laptop trackpads.

These colorful trackpad skins from… [More]

30. Dental Tattoos - Custom Tooth Art? (GALLERY)

I, in my naivety, thought that I had seen the last frontier for body tattoos when I saw people getting inked inside their eyes. I was so wrong! But it never occurred to me that some people would want to… [More]