By Kelvin Ko, from the Fontys IBMS Coolhunt: This concept Internet search device is designed by Mac Funamizu. It is a screen that will most likely be transparent. It will be like having wikipedia whereever you go but this is much cooler and way more advanced. The artist’s impressions for this concept is to make a portable device that has a touchscreen panel, built-in camera,Wi-Fi connectivity, Google Maps and Google Search capabilities. The capabilities of this screen is that when you point it at an object, the device will be able to show you more details about it--such as the name of an insect, a car model, or food on the table--on the screen. We suppose at this point of time it will use the onboard Wi-Fi to grab information from the Web.

By Burak Kaya, from Brussels Coolhunt ’09: Walls notebook is a book that has pictures of empty walls in New-York City, so that taggers can practice on them before actually doing it. You can purchase it already on Amazon.com…

By Hae In Lee, from the Seoul Coolhunt ‘09: Nowadays, it’s not difficult to find women that run their own Internet shopping ‘mall’ in Korea. They are just normal people, not celebrities or big entrepreneurs, but they are as beautiful and powerful like celebrities and CEOs. This picure was provided from the owner of www.naemood.com 



By Rebecca Sousa de Andrade Passos, from Tio Coolhunt: This is the Mobile Living Unit designed for homeless people. They can sit in it and walk around with their belongings in quite a fashionable way. This unit protects the homeless from rain, wind and the cold floor.

Luc van de Riet, from Fontys Coolhunt ‘09: What began as an underground service for his (founder) thrill-seeking friends, which was strictly word-of-mouth, has now gone public and grew to a successful kidnap business in New York. This unique company (violently) abducts its clients from the street (or their homes) and kidnap them for up to $ 4,000 (€ 3.200,-) a time. 
Clients come to this company wanting to test themselves and go through the ‘real’ experience of violent abduction, incarceration and something that most people would describe as torture. 
Most of the clients are in their mid to late twenties or early thirties, with steady jobs, and they hang out on the hip-side of Manhattan or Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. 
Before an abduction contract is agreed, the company sits down and discusses the client’s ‘desires’. But after that it becomes more spontaneous, kidnap ‘victims’ agree a time-frame for their abduction, but the thrill comes in not quite knowing when the team will strike. 


By Noami Boortman, from Erasmus Coolhunt: Invisible outfits of the Dutch artist Desiree Palmen are cool because she shows that fashion and art go hand in hand. People who see her art are confused, surprised and show interest. All people have a wish to disappear sometimes and she shows a step closer to this situation.

By Judith Nielen, from IBMS Coolhunt ‘09: Naomi Yotsumoto is a professional Japanese table tennis player that wears colourful, self designed outfits during her matches. Her creations are inspired by Japanese (manga/Cosplay-)cartoons that have a big influence on Japanese youthculture. With her outfits she gets a lot of media attention and in the mean while disrupts her challengers. She gets the same attention as Anna Kournikova, Venus Williams, or Andre Agassi. She is a big trendsetter.

By Tugkan Bahar, Istanbul Coolhunt ‘09: Everybody, including Sony’s marketing agent, knows that bus-stops are boring. That’s why Sony tried to make bus stops enjoyable with their Playstation ad campaign. Playstation bus-stops are covered with bubble wraps that have Playstation signs on it. Passengers can spend their time by popping bubbles. Don’t we all love to do that anyway?  

By Anne Barmentloo, from the Amsterdam Coolhunt ‘09: 43 things is a website where you can make a goal list online. If you register online you can set your goals and you can share your progress with a lot of other bloggers. You can cheer other people with their goals and their accomplishments. And they can cheer for you. 

By Thanh Nguyen, from The IBMS Coolhunt ‘09: In most of the Asian countries, they use chopsticks in order to eat. Because of the production of disposable chopsticks, lots of trees are being cut. So Triumph international (manufacturer of women lingerie) has invented My Hashi (My chopsticks bra in Japanese) as a response for the Japanese women.  It has collapsible chopsticks as a promotion tool to produce less disposable chopsticks.

By Dusica Lazarova, from the Skopje Coolhunt ‘09: Meet Wu Xiao-bin, a student of Zhejiang University of Media and Communications. Wu Xiao-bin comes from a poor Chinese family which cultivates fruits and have huge orange plantation. This year, their sale was very low and they had plenty of unsold high quality oranges. These pictures were taken this February:  Having no money to pay the student tuition fee for the studying year on the faculty, he decides to sell oranges in front of the faculty! With big help of the media, he succeeds to sell 5000 kg of the oranges in just one hour and to pay his annual student fee.

By Rick de Roo, Tio Coolhunt: The Single House offers modern domestic living space. It is supported by one central mast. Therefore you can build it everywhere.
You can also pack the roof with solar panels or a wind turbine generator to make a fully self sustaining unit. 

By Igor Delov, from Skopje Coolhunt: There is a guy called himself Slinkachu who made new style of urban art. 
For example he paints snails and lets them go for a walk so they form some kind of slow exhibition.

By Jo Hyun Kyo, from Seoul Coolhunt: From April 16 to April 19 Poomba festival is held in Korea. The festival is named after Poomba, a Korean traditional beggar. Poomba was not just poor and homeless, he also criticized betrayers and corrupt officers in a very direct manner.  
At the festival nowadays people walk down the street dancing and singing with ridiculous clothes. By doing these performances they express common people’s sorrow, grief and regret. 
At this festival everyone can be a poomba! Dress ridiculously and make up like poomba, begging from person to person. 

By Yvonne Blikman, from Tio Coolhunt ‘08: The ‘beauty and the geek’ jeans is a creation of a Dutch design student, Erik de Nijs. He has stitched together this eye catching pair of “Beauty and the Geek” jeans. These “modern shaped trousers which is often worn by youngsters..” are the perfect solution for nowadays’ geek that wants to be connected 24/7. It’s a beautiful mash-up of fashion and technology with its stitched-on keyboard. 

By Li Chang Dian, from Shanghai Coolhunt ’09: Calligraphy is an ancient art with a long history. It reflects the spirit of different, ancient times. Today, a new calligraphy becomes popular, called “water calligraphy”.  As the name implies, it uses water to write. The places we practice it are special; generally in the park or square. So in many parks and squares in Shanghai, we can often see people write on the ground with “water brush”. The words emaciate under the sunlight irradiation, until disappearing. This not only attracts the attention and admiration of visitors, but also adds a new luster to people’s lives.

By Ana Sofia Vaz Pinto de Jesus, from Lisboa Coolhunt ‘09: In the main centre of Lisbon – Chiado – there’s a new store were we can buy CD’s, DVD’s, house stuffs and accessories, having a zen tea, eating a biological or veggie meal, or even walk on the interior garden. A little paradise in one of the most traditional and full streets in Lisbon. Infinito Fabrico‘s slogan is based on the diversity: in nature nothing is equal, nothing repeats. One unique moment in an unique store.

By Dana van Beersum, from Tio Coolhunt ‘08: stoerevrouwen.nl (‘stoere vrouwen’ means ‘tough women’ in Dutch) is a website for women who love shopping, but want to do this in a responsible way. At this website you can find all kinds of cool and responsible (!) gadgets, products and stores. You can become a member and contact other women in your region. Together you can organize events to create awareness for the environment.

By Burak Kaya, from the Brussels Coolhunt ‘09: FMyLife.com is a pretty special website…

By Dragan Saldziev, from Skopje Coolhunt ‘09: How much of a letter can be removed while maintaining readability? After extensive testing with all kinds of shapes, the best results were achieved using small circles. After lots of late hours (and coffee) this resulted in a font that uses up to 20% less ink!

By Erik Vader, from HvA Coolhunt ‘09: Whopper Sacrifice! A temporary add-on specially designed for Facebook, one of the most popular online social networks on the globe. Whopper Sacrifice is a Burger King promotional tool and is all about sacrificing your friends. Install it on your Facebook profile, choose ten of your friends, and sacrifice them all in order to get a free Whopper in return. A fun side note is that normally people are not able to see if you have deleted them as one of your friends. With Whopper Sacrifice however, the contrary is true. 233,906 friends have been deleted in less than a week. ‘Friendship is strong, but the Whopper is stronger.’

By Anli Jin, from Fontys IBMS Coolhunt/China ‘09: I-Deck is a touch screen music player that revitalizes album art and user interaction which has been lost in current mp3 format.

By Missin Alexia, from Brussels Coolhunt ‘09: Kiva is a website which gives you the possibility to lend money to one or more entrepreneurs. The website presents you a serie of different entrepreneurs of all the developing countries. The lifestyle of each entrepreneur is described. Each pre-screened entrepreneur is hard-working and hopes to create a sustainable livelihood. All they need is a small loan. So, what you have to do is to choose your own entrepreneur and give him a loan as little as $25. You will receive updates and later on your money back as the business succeeds.

By Erim Mani, from the Istanbul Coolhunt ‘09: This picture from an advertising campaign of Lipton Green Tea, shows a garden in Cairo designed like Lipton teabags and teacups. These teabags consist of real teaplants, just like they actually exist in Egypt. Suggesting that nothing is more real than Lipton ”Green Tea”. 
Now I would like to integrate this example with Cool Experience Economy which is one of the Cool mentality trends. Supposing that there is a Tea cafe surrounded by these teabagplants but the diffrence is, the teabags are REAL tea plants. 

By Ma Li, from Shanghai Coolhunt ‘09: Nowadays surprisingly many people wear animation/game costumes in Shanghai on the subway. Cosumes like “deer”, “mummy”, “egg heads”, “Superman,” and so on. Many people believe that such a way of dressing in public is indecent, but others think it’s quite interesting. It livens up your journey. 
The subway companies say that the dressed-up passengers does not violate the provisions of strange clothes.