Protect Your Wrist, Tantalize Your Tummy – PC Breakfast Wrist Rests (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As someone who works and plays on the computer, I am starting to feel the effects of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) in my wrists. The Breakfast Themed Wrist Rest Set aims to ease the wrist’s strain and pain while sending ‘i want greasy breakfast’ signals to your brain. The set comes with a ‘plate’ m…

Creepy Furniture – Han Solo in Carbonite Desk

(TrendHunter.com) Tom Spina Designs created this super creepy ‘Han Solo in Carbonite desk’ for Mark Hall of the Grammy Award winning group Casting Crowns. It is a custom designed desk that fits a Star Wars-style theme. The makers claim the desk ‘is beyond furniture… it’s not just a desk, it’s art!’ It’s damn cre…

Bizarre Luxury Buys – $675,000 License Plate

(TrendHunter.com) A Delaware man shelled out $675,000 at auction for the number plate “6”. The man whose name is Frank Vassallo IV, admitted afterwards that he was prepared to go as high up as 1 cool million. Mr Vassallo’s family is already in possession of plate #9 for which $185,000 was paid at auction in 1993, and…

Playing With Food – Tic Tac Toast

(TrendHunter.com) I am a big fan of toast stampers and this new one onto the market is my current favourite, even beating Holy Toast.

I love Tic Tac Toast – and the fact that playing with your food is made acceptable is pretty groovy. Not sure what else to say as the picture really does say it all.

Home-Built Pontoon Boat – “Gaze-Boat”

(TrendHunter.com) Take the comforts of your backyard deck with you with this novel home-built version of a pontoon boat! According to the blog post, the builder was originally just going to build this gazebo on the edge of his dock, but, in his own words “I thought …..I might just as well build the deck with floats…

Girly Luxury Lighter – Hello Kitty Swarovski Zippo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What better way to light up your ‘cancer on a stick’ than with an adorable looking pink Hello Kitty zippo lighter? Oh, you are extremely wealthy? Well, this one is a limited edition and is blinged with Swarovski stones. So it must be pricey.

The brass zippo has Hello Kitty logo etched and is colore…

Your Own $5,200 Monster – Lifesize Alien (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you love Sci-Fi and creepy creations, you can now bring home your very own Alien for $5,200. The life-size prop is built to 1:1 scale, standing at 7’7”. It can be the perfect art for your bedroom standing next to your bed.

Alien features resin and rigid foam head, transparent dental acrylic …

Schnitzel Hammer Jewelry – Tenderizer Ring

(TrendHunter.com) This great looking ring was originally made from that never used schnitzel hammer. The Tenderizer Ring was created by Ken Goldman, an artist known for bringing innovative new product to the world of modern design.

The design has now evolved, with the men’s ring available in sterling silver.

Phone, Computer & More Under Your Skin – Digital Tattoo Interface

(TrendHunter.com) The Greener Gadgets Conference had some really ‘interesting’ concepts. Take this concept by Jim Mielke for example; a gadget that is ‘tattooed’ under your skin and runs on blood by turning glucose and oxygen into electricity.

It’s an electronic interface embedded under the skin that looks like a t…

Diamond Defender – Killer Engagement Ring

(TrendHunter.com) I’m not joking, this design by Tobias Wong is really called ‘Killer Engagement Ring’. It is a sturdy diamond ring whose point faces out, turning it into a potentially lethal weapon. The diamond sharp edge will cut skin down to the bone with a minimum of 1 karat stone – but the larger the stone the d…

Penile Art – ‘Pricasso’ Paints Portraits With Penis (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Pricasso is well known on the sex-fair circuit (so they tell me) for his penile artworks and one-to-one portrait sessions and is now about to move into the mainstream art world with his inclusion in an Australian professional art competition. Pricasso aka Tim Patch will be showing off his works that…

Holiday Branding – Armani Easter Eggs

(TrendHunter.com) As a kid, I used to leave the Easter Bunny a few carrots, just to make sure I got some good chocolates. Now that I’m an adult, what do I have to do to make sure I get some Armani Easter Eggs this year?

“Embossed with the unmistakable ‘A’ and delivered in a sky blue box dressed with a ribbon, these…

Digital Necklace TiVos Your Life – Momenta PC Concept

(TrendHunter.com) Are you ready to take feeling strangled by your work to the next level?

This PC design concept comes from Momenta who entered Microsoft’s Next-Gen PC Design Competition. It monitors the world around you to help you determine what sorts of events cause emotional or mental changes. It records your p…

Tea Candles as Pixels – Moving Art by Phil Hansen (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Candles are one of the oldest forms of interior decoration, having been used not only as a light source for centuries, but to set a mood. They continue to be focal pieces on their own or to enhance art, but this piece takes an uber modern approach by turning tealights into an image which looks like …

Bring Graffiti to High Tea – Welovekaoru Graffitea Cups (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Drinking tea from china cups typically evokes images of older ladies in frilly dresses and is often considered a stuffy past time. Be prepared to let go of those stereotypes.

The odds of you seeing a table full of grannies sipping from Kaoru Parry’s cups are oh so slim. In the very off chance you …

Bug Sucking Vacuum & Zoom – Eyeclops Get More Fun

(TrendHunter.com) Last year’s cool electronic eyeball has new features available to add to the fun in 2008. The new model of Eyeclops now comes with three levels of zoom, 100x, 200x, and 400x. And this fall, the company will make it easier to catch the bugs and stuff you zoom in on with their new bug-sucking vacuum a…

Landmark Toilets – Plastik Architects Design in Kent (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Why should you hire an architect to design public toilets? The answer can be found in the work of trendy, young designers Plastik Architects in London have completed their first public commission: a building for toilets next to a car park in Gravesend Kent.

The up-and-coming designers, who were …

15 Crazy Cars (Some Hot, Some Not) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The world loves automobiles. You can see this fact on any given day by reading through one of the numerous auto-focused blogs or major headline news sites. Whether the news is about the latest in alternative fuel vehicles or a kooky homemade contraption – we are interested in seeing it. Here are 15 …

Fashion, Art & Social Commentary – ‘Lamp Girls’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is absolutely the best and most creative use of fashion and art to make a social statement I have seen of late. Marianne Maric, a french super talented recent art school graduate, is considering working as a photographer.. or stylist.. or designer… Well, she hasn’t made up her mind just yet, …

Home Built Laser Harp – Light-Controlled Synth Harp in Action (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Laser harps aren’t necessarily new, but this is the first time I’ve seen a home built one.

In the video, Stephen Hobley moves his hands over the laser beams projected in the air to produce music as the sensors gets blocked. My explanation of the light-controlled synth harp isn’t great, which is wh…