Added 27 February, 2014
Pharrell Williams is a major star of the moment. An American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, drummer and fashion designer, Pharrell can be expected to have his finger on the pulse of the cultural direction of his audience. So it speaks volumes that his latest denim clothes collection is being promoted primarily for its environmental...
Added 3 February, 2014
Over the past few years, pressure from consumers has given birth to a mainstream trend in the food industry to embrace things that are natural and healthy. Now that same aesthetic is filtering across industries to compel brands to reformulate their offerings to make them better for people and the environment. The past few weeks have seen several...
Added 28 January, 2014
We have featured quite a number of 3D technologies on WikiTrend, but few are more fun than the various fingernail designs created by a New York City-based digital artists collaborative. Known as TheLaserGirls, this dynamic duo produces fun finger art made of dyed nylon. One of the best things about 3D printed objects is that lots of them are made...
Added 25 January, 2014
Procter & Gamble, the parent company of Gillette, one of the world's largest razor companies has said that its sales are taking a hit due to changing men's fashions. From Hollywood to hipsterdom, beards are in and wet shaving is out. Illustrating this trend, all five nominees for the Academy Award in the Best Actor category is wearing a beard...
Added 23 January, 2014
Augmented reality is the ability to add digital images to a live video screen, so that you can see what the world would look like if it were, well, augmented slightly. Ikea, the home furnishings giant, has a cool app that let you point your iPad camera at an empty corner of your living room and see on the screen what it would look like with a...
Added 3 January, 2014
Speaking of wearable computers, how about a Bluetooth headset build into your hat so you can talk on the phone in winter without unsightly dangling wires and without having to take your hands out of your pockets? The Hands-Free Bluetooth Beanie can also double as a headphone hider for your music, syncing up with your mp3 player. Like other...
Added 22 November, 2013
A humongous H&M flagship opened in Times Square this week as a paean to high-tech retailing. The store exemplifies the way in which bricks-and-mortar shops are fighting back against the Internet by offering immersive shopping experiences that just can't be replicated online. This being Times Square, shoppers are greeted by a pair of enormous...
Added 19 November, 2013
Regular readers know that we recently wrote about the way in which the farm-to-table food trend is propagating around to other parts of our lives, like farm-to-massage-table spas (http://www.wikitrend.org/farm-massage-table-trending-spa-industry). It didn't take long...
Added 4 November, 2013
Facial hair is one of those fads that perennially pop up on men every few years in one guise or another. A decade ago it was the goatee. And it was the soul patch before that. Now, the full beard is having its moment, both trimmed and otherwise. One constituency has done away with the razor altogether in favor of letting facial hair grow untamed...
Added 4 November, 2013
Japan, of course, has the most active vending machine culture in the world, automatically dispensing everything from snacks and sake to fresh eggs, fried chicken, and Smart cars. New Yorkers, on the other hand, are not as automat savvy and for them the installation of machines vending something other than soda is a game-changing innovation. L'...