Wired Fashion – Lederhosen with iPod Controls

(TrendHunter.com) How many times have you put on your Lederhosen on in the morning, or when you go to the gym (mostly), and you’re like, “WTF, why can’t I control my iPod though these things?”

I know right? Like everyday.

Well, now this problem is solved.

These bad boys have the controls built right in.

Thank…

Advertising with Zombies – Zune’s Piece of Me, Piece of You (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Zune’s new ad came out a couple of days ago and it is not lacking in creativity and, um zombies. “Very Tim Burton”, says adrants. Indeed. The ad is somewhat reminiscent of Burton’s quirky and often dark style but the aptly titled Piece of Me, Piece of You manages to be very cheerful and totally cool…

Virtual Mix Tapes – Mixwit is Embeddable (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember the 80’s? Ghetto-blasters and mixtapes dominated that decade and everyone was making mixtapes for their breakdancing routines, for their friends, and the most important reason: for their crushes!

Alas, technology came and wiped the humble mixtape right off the map, but now there’s Mixwit …

iTunes 3D Visualizer- Magnetosphere (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I’ve been a fan of the Barbarian Group for a while, one of the hottest interactive ad agencies out there. But with the beta release of their iTunes visualizer, called the ‘Magnetosphere’, they have absolutely obliterated the paradigm for what an ‘agency does’. I mean i can’t stop looking at the thin…

Music Bags – The Fi-Hi Bags (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These Fi-Hi bags come equipped with speakers and amplifiers and they can easily hook up to the iPod, cellphone, MP3/CD player, hand held game or multimedia device with a 3.5mm stereo mini jack. The Fi-Hi bag which was showcased at the CTIA Wireless 2008, is supported by four AA batteries that can la…

iPod Competitors – SanDisk Sansa Fuze MP3 Player

(TrendHunter.com) Why can this dinky MP3 player be a threat to the omnipresent iPod you ask? It has a secret microSD card slot that will enable you to stuff this player with 32Gb of music and the battery lasts 24hrs for constant music playing or 5 hours of video watching

DIY CD Case Wall Art – Alveoprint Printable CD Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This beautiful piece of art actually consists of 20 printable, paper CD cases. When placed together, the individual hexagonal cases create a larger image that makes a beautiful piece of wall art. As seen in the gallery, they can also be assembled separately for smaller design statements.

Even bett…

iPod Capsules – Cradle With Speaker (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Gee it’s Nano everything and people with big fingers may not like these. Peter Hwang’s small concept for the Apple iPod has a ‘Home’ button that when touched allows browsing the same way as with the iPhone. Docked to the mini speaker cradle, you can simultaneously send and receive data in the i…

iTune Competitors – MySpace Music Launched

(TrendHunter.com) The giant in social networks is taking on the giant in online music. MySpace Music officially launched to compete with Apple iTunes.

MySpace has joined with three of the giant record labels to keep iTunes from getting to much control. Warner Music, Sony BMG and Universal Music will make music wit…

In-Ear Bluetooth Headphones – Etymotic Ety8

(TrendHunter.com) You’re looking at the world’s first in-the-ear, high fidelity, noise-isolating, wireless Bluetooth stereo earphones; yeah, that’s a mouth full.

The Etymotic Ety8 claims to have highly accurate sound reproduction and unsurpassed noise exclusion. The ety8 earphones have a Made-for-iPod adapter that i…

Retro Instruments for Modern Music – MP3 Stylophone (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Awesome news – the 1970’s “organ in your pocket,” AKA the Stylophone, is back with a bang and it is awesome. Are you too young to know what this is? It’s a battery-operated instrument with metal keys that you press to close the circuit, which in turn generates a unique and annoying noise.

On the …

Retro Car Record Players – VW Van Soundwagon

(TrendHunter.com) This gets to be filed under C for “cool as hell”. It’s a portable, stand-alone record player! The Soundwagon Portable Record Player from Turntable Lab is shaped like a Volkswagen van and “drives” around records, playing music through a built in speaker. $89 USD.

MID Sneak Peeks – Lenovo Ideapad U8 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Lenovo has unveiled the new gorgeous Ideapad U8 at Intel’s IDF in Shanghai.

The sexy MID (Mobile Internet Device) utilizes Intel’s newest Atom processor and features a 4.8-inch touchscreen display and an optical mouse for one-handed operation while surfing the web over EDGE or 3G data.

iPod Death Clock – iPodMechanic

(TrendHunter.com) Gadgets don’t live forever. If you’re addicted to your iPod, that thought might sting a little. For an estimate into the lifespan on the Apple of your, uh, ears, there’s the iPod Death Clock.

Input the serial number of your device onto iPodMechanic.com, and it will calculate an estimate. Of course…

iPod Trumpets – Phonofone II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is the Phonofone II, designed by Tristan Zimmermann.

I love it when somebody takes a high tech gadget and makes an accessory that is very low tech. There are no electronics for the phonophone, it depends entirely on the ceramic design and horn acoustics to amplify the sound of you iPod by con…

Fan-Inspired Ultra Mobile PCs – F@N UMPC (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A big problem with current UMPCs is the limited screen size that hurdles multi-tasking or prolonged usage. Inspired by the folding fan of the east, F@N is a concept of a powerful UMPC that looks like a normal one screen device but actually has a hidden keyboard and two other screens that can easily…

Web Cams in Funeral Homes – Pay Per View Last Rites (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Pay-per-view funerals will start in Britain soon. If you can’t make the services, for a fee, you can log on and mourn. Wesley Music will offer the service to funeral parlors around the country for a one time payment of $150 for access to a funeral webcast. If the eulogy is half as good as John Clees…

Boombox Redux – The iPod Boombox from Urban Outfitters (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Now, this is really a boombox! Actually, retro boombox would be more apt due to the fact that this gadget has been actualized with up to the second tech. This is in fact an iPod Boombox from Urban Outfitters! Its design, shape and color are very similar to the annoying boomboxes of yesteryears but t…

PC on your Wrist – The INFO Live Bracelet Concept (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) INFO Live is a bracelet PC concept that merges smartphone, a mobile device and a PC into a pretty, fashionable accessory. INFO Live is one of the concepts that emerged from the 2008 Next-Gen PC Design Competition that ended in February. Right now this is just a pretty bracelet. Gearfuse says, “Use …

Crank Powered Gadgets – The Eco-Friendly Thanko Cranking MP3

(TrendHunter.com) This cranking MP3 player from Thanko Team supports both MP3 and WMA files and has 1GB of internal memory. It also comes with its own flash light which will come in handy if you’re far from power sources.

For every minute that you crank, you get ten minutes of music and so on. Hum. The gadget is at…