Gravity Defying Houses – Daring Architecture

(TrendHunter.com) It’s really hard for me to believe that the second house from the top clockwise is not a Photoshop product. The house, which is located in the Ukraine, is being supported by a single cantilever. That is it. The first house meanwhile, is located in Russia according to likecool.com, and it belonged to…

Luxury Game Tables – Football for the Fashionable (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Absolutely “the beautiful game!” This sculptural version of the classic table football game is a stunner. The stadium effect is conveyed with a matte black shell, white playing field, lighting effects and gleaming chrome footballers, accented by a vivid orange game ball.

Designed by GRO design and …

Funky Barcodes – D-Barcode Spices Up Packaging (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who knew that barcodes could be so much fun? Barcodes are the machine-readable representation of information most of us are familiar with.

A Japanese firm named D-Barcode has been “decorating” these codes and their products are now used all over Japan. Great, fun concept.

Mobile Show Rooms – Ikea Designed Kobe Portliner Monorail (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Kobe Portliner Monorail in Japan has been decked out in all things Ikea, creating a very Swedish, mobile showroom.

Ikea, known for its affordable, flat-pack furniture, is using the train as an advertising gimmic as the exposure it will get from traveling across Japan will be immense.

It look…

Pixel Furniture II – Pixel Sofa

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter recently featured a nerdy Pixel Couch, and it seems that pixels, an integral part of modern life, are inspiring more and more furniture designs.

The Pixel Sofa by Ron Arad for Moroso is set to be featured at the upcoming Salone del Mobile from 16 to 21 April, 2008.

The unique sofa is…

Jewelry from Recycled Car Parts – Hi Octane Jewelry

(TrendHunter.com) Hi Octane Jewelry makes their accessories from recycled car parts. The pieces integrated in the jewelry have been salvaged from auto junk yards and turned into new treasures, making each piece a unique one.

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DIY Political Finger Puppets – Obama, Hillary, McCain

(TrendHunter.com) Adi Marom, a New York based designer, created an online project where you can create your own DIY finger-puppets of Obama, Hillary and McCain and stage your own presidential debates!

The process is simple! It’s all there, at your fingertips: Download the candidate, print, cut, fold, glue… And set…

Earth Furniture – Lawn Chair + Lawn Couch (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) How much oxygen did your furniture produce today? Yeah, this is not your typical piece of furniture.

Add some alive furniture to your lawn or garden with these neat looking environmental chair and couch.

Simply fill the frame with soil, spread grass seeds evenly over the dirt, press them in and w…

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…

Ambigramic Fashion – Love Hate Psy-Shirts

(TrendHunter.com) When you look at the shirt normally, it appears to say, “Hate,” but look at its mirror image, and it displays “Love.” This ambigramic t-shirt reveals that no matter how icy you try to act, you’re really a loving softie at heart.

This reminds me of witches and evil entities in movies who look beauti…

Hands as a Canvas 3 – Funny Fingers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Although hands aren’t a traditional art canvas, they do prove to work wonders for some very remarkable art, as proved by our previous post on animal hands and this gallery of “Funny Fingers.”

These photographs merit a second link, they’re incredibly well done, and many of them need to be examined t…

Eco Chic Transit – Swarovskied Low-Rider

(TrendHunter.com) Bling on the attention! This crystal-covered bike will cause so many double takes, the rider had better be prepared to take responsibility for whiplash! Low-riders are focal points as they are, but imagine the stares you’d get riding around on this Swarovskied one!

So, who would buy this 110,000 cr…

Conservation Innovation – Happy Tap

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Julia Treutiger has come up with an eco-friendly shower tap design that reminds you to conserve water.

Happy Tap features segmented joints that break apart providing a visual timer as they slowly snap back into place. This subtle mechanism reminds you to cut your shower short and stop wast…

Functional Spinning Walls – TurnOn is Your Whole Apartment (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Save space and bring out the hamster in you with TurnOn , a Multi Functional Spinning Wall that integrates several revolving modules linked together. Change between dining table, kitchen, bedroom, or exercise room with a simple spin of the wheel!

“The wheel literally turns, and as the positioning o…

Exclusive Bed Designs – The Sphere by Karim Rashid (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Famous multi-talented designer and artist Karim Rashid has created an exclusive bed design, The Sphere, for Hollandia International.

The Sphere was recently revealed in Moscow to much hype and fanfare. The fancy bed features 32″ Colored Television with an optional 5.1 surround sound Theater System,…

OLED Lamps – Early Future is World’s First

(TrendHunter.com) Famous designer Ingo Maurer has designed the world’s first organic LEDs (OLEDs) table lamp for OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, entitled Early Future.

Early Future made its debut at the Light&Building;fair on 6 April, 2008, and is being produced as a limited edition.

Martin Goetzeler, CEO of OSRAM said…

Portugese Helium Lights – Joao Sabino Designs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I found out about Joao Sabino whilst looking at the keyboard bag (shown below) which led me to his website and in turn, a large section of some of his awesome designs.

I think the way he reinvents objects, such as the wine glasses, is really fresh and actually different, for once showing you can re…

Canoe Made of 7,382 Chopsticks

(TrendHunter.com) Shuhei Ogawara, a city-hall employee, has made a 13-foot canoe from thousands of disposable chopsticks that he collected from the city hall cafeteria. He was disturbed that perfectly good wood was being thrown away – so, he spent two years constructing this 66 pound boat out of 7,382 chopsticks. A l…

Celeb Height Comparisons – Who Tall Are You Mirror

(TrendHunter.com) Who tall are you? No, that’s not a typo; with the Who Tall Are You Mirror, you can find out who else stands at your height.

The mirror looks like an ordinary rectangular mirror in shape, but it’s etched with an image of measuring tape with heights of the stars marked along either side. The chart h…

Appliance Skins – Pimp your Espresso Machine!

(TrendHunter.com) Obsessed with customization? Now you can pimp your espresso machine (Krups models, Cube, Siemens, Magimix) if you get tired of the same old look. For about 9 euros (about $14) you can change the skin of the coffee machine to one that’s more fun to look at.

I’m at a loss for words. What do I care wh…