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Recreating Classic Films With Robots - The Shining with a WowWee Tribot (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) The famous 'tricycle' scene from The Shining has been reenacted with a WowWee Tribot and it is pretty darn awesome. I just wonder where the heck this idea came from in the first ...
Fake Gun Crafts - MP Industries Felt Armory (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Ethical issues aside, I totally love this felt armory collection from MP Industries. From a design point of view, they are fantastic, much like the china guns we've previously post...
Eyelid Tattoos - More Extreme Tattoos (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) So we thought tattoos had been done to death on Trendhunter, but oh no no no. I have found a new one to us all: Eyelid tattoos! You can see the picture, but why anyone would want ...
Abandoned Celebrity Mansions - Mike Tyson's Old Home (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Forget what you see in fake Hello and OK magazine spreads, this is more like it! These are pictures of what Mike Tyson's mansion, found in Southington, Ohio, look like now that he ...
Futuristic Cuckoo Clocks - 10,000 Year Clock (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) The Long Now Foundation is a small group of folks who like to think... well, long term. The group "hopes to provide counterpoint to today's "faster/cheaper" mind set and promote "s...
Novelty Vegetables - Heart Shaped Cucumber Kits
(TrendHunter.com) The Yamagata Prefecture DIY vegetable growing kit will ensure all your cucumbers grow heart shaped! Is life too short to grow heart shaped cucumbers? I can't even rustle a six inc...
Terrifying Toys - The World's Most Hideous Doll
(TrendHunter.com) OK, so you must be pretty messed up to design a doll like this, and even more messed up to have spent your money one dolls this ugly. Even the designer proudly describes them as si...
Womb Dolls - Recreating that Fetus Feeling
(TrendHunter.com) These womb dolls are creeping me out, and I am not sure why. I must be the only one disturbed too, as these are a sell out hit. Takara Tomy created two dolls in the forms of Micke...
Childish Body Armor - Glamguns Care Bare Vests
(TrendHunter.com) With a 'company' called "Glamguns," you could guess what might be coming, but you would probably still not expect to see bullet-proof vests with childish cartoon imagery. I am tota...
Publicity Stunt Secrets - Truth Behind UFO Revealed (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) Now I can tell you all what I have been up to over the last few days... after playing dumb on Trend Hunter (sorry again.) The two films about the Vauxhall Insignia UFO were made b...
Luxury Air Travel Capsules - US Air Force $16 Million Design (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Four top military officials are in the business of designing luxury air travel, including a 37 inch flat panel television. It just so happens that it's for military luxury air trav...
Fake Food Wallets - Toast and Bacon Wallets
(TrendHunter.com) This item is just plain silly. The wallet resembling a buttered piece of toast is rather realistic, or at least more so than the uncooked bacon wallet. Regardless of this, the $...
Eternal Errorts - Misspelled Tattoos (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Misspelled Tattoos? That's Awesme. ;) Most reputable tattoo shops don’t allow customers to be rocked off their gourd when they get inked. And for good reason - heaven forbid so...
Garden Zombies are the New Gnome - The Zombie of Montclaire Moors
(TrendHunter.com) Toss out those garden gnomes! Now there is something really scary to put in your garden - The Zombie from Montclaire Moors. It’s guaranteed to frighten away your neighbours and n...
Nike Stabbings? - Nike Air Stab Shoes Linked to Crime (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Nike has been in the media for good and bad this week. First off, the Nike Air Stab had to be recalled because it has been attributed to stabbings, or at least thought to coincide ...
Britain’s Busy Skies - ‘Bizarre’ Levels of UFO Sightings (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) What indeed is going on in England? Experts say the number of UFO sightings are extraordinarily high this summer in the UK. The map here shows the locations of the recent sightings...
UFO Crash Publicity Stunts - The Potters Field Mystery (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) This is an image and video from from activity I saw taking place at Potter’s Fields Park, in London by Tower Bridge (UK) today. What is it? We just don’t know what yet and Tr...
Picnic Table Pyramids - The 'Rest' Air Restaurant in the Netherlands (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) While most of the information I could find on this exhibition was in Dutch, I thought it was still worth posting. This massive triangular stack of wooden picnic tables is an art pr...
Controversial Cuisine - 8 Banned Foods (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) We've featured some wickedly daring foods before, but NewsWeek rounded up a delicious sampling of eight forbidden meals just starving for a mention. A mere description in words wou...
Latex Pod Hats - Joop! At Berlin Fashion Week (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Mercedes-Benz Berlin Fashion Week transforms the German city into a whirling sea of fashion and design, filling the days with sartorial shows to flaunt elaborate new collections an...
Pet Dentists - Rainbow is a Parrot That Fight Plaque (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) Rainbow is a parrot. Rainbow is a dentist. If you open your mouth near him, he'll clean your teeth. Hmmm.... now that the economy is tanking, perhaps this little dude would be an...
Pink Dog Poo - Poop Scoop Awareness Campaign
(TrendHunter.com) Pink doggy doo is being spotted on streets in the UK thanks to a bizarre new poop scoop awareness campaign. Oak Tree Heath nature reserve in Nottinghamshire has unleashed activis...
Reborn Babies - Freakishly Real Fake Babies (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) "Reborn babies" are freakishly lifelike dolls in every respect, from their mohair hair and eyelashes to their realistic breathing and actual beating inside their chest. The act of ...
Chess Boxing - Rocky Balboa Vs Bobby Fischer
(TrendHunter.com) You may soon see "My Chess Champion Child Kicked Your Kid's Ass" bumper stickers as an odd new hybrid sport gains momentum. Chess Boxing is a sport that combines chess, the sophist...
Vegetable Vodka - Square One Cucumber Flavor
(TrendHunter.com) Square One has come out with cucumber vodka, a flavor I just could not handle. But if your guts can handle it, Square One wants you to enjoy this new vodka with a slice of fresh cu...
Viral Nature Videos - Christian the Lion (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) You know a video is viral when your mom calls you sobbing to pass the little gem along. This video is the story of Christian the lion, who two men saved from captivity after they...
Fat Furniture - "Basho" The Sumo Wrestler Table
(TrendHunter.com) “Basho” the Sumo Wrestler Table, as pictured here, makes a nice hefty addition to any sports memorabilia collection, not to mention its functional use in the living room. For ...