Food Shaped Soap For Chefs – Bathropolitan Soap Bars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I would love to recommend these creations for chefs, home cooks, and fabulous gift givers.

Bathropolitan New York City Soap Crafters was inspired by my brother, who has been a chef in some of the top eateries in Los Angles and often complains about cooking odors and grease on his hands. His frustr…

NYC Living Japanese Style – Metal Shutter Duplex (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Metal Shutter Houses created by the Japanese Architect Shigaru Ban (in partnership with Dean Maltz Architects) stands 11 floors tall in the heart of West Chelsea, New York, and has brought Japanese simplicity and modern architectual lines to a sweeter big apple. Ban, known as the ‘poet’ architec…

Glowing PET Bottle Art – Joan Nadal’s Eco-Design BoB Collection

(TrendHunter.com) Did you know that there are more than 10,000 P.E.T bottles wasted every second in the world?

Eco designers from Andorra (a little country between Spain and France) have been transforming those beautiful bottles into cool design objects. Joan Nadal’s works bring not only style to your home but, more…

1st Microsoft Surface Game – Firefly (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Just about everyone who’s seen the Microsoft Surface is captivated by its possibility, and eager to see more of what it does. I know I can’t wait to see it live.

This video shows a new game for the touch-screen table top called Firefly. It’s the first game developed specifically for the Surface an…

Droplet Holds Self-Destructing MP3s – Drop of Music

(TrendHunter.com) Poised with the question of what a “drop of music” would look like in 3D, German designer Noa Lerner came up with the Music Drop concept. The tiny ear piece, shaped like a droplet of fluid, contains a piece of music of can only be listened to once; “one drop of music that contains one song that can …

60s Home Theater Room – 1500 Square Feet of Retro Groovy

(TrendHunter.com) The problem with this home theater is NOTHING. So cool, even Norbit would be fun to watch (with lots of adult beverages.)

James Biber from Pentagram designed this baby and it is incredibly wicked. It’s 1500 square feet, with the perfect mood lighting and the funky retro bean bag chairs. Pass me an…

Computers of the Future – The Curved iMac (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Curved iMac is a mock-up conceived by designer Nuno Texeira. This mock-up looks simple but impossibly elegant. Yanko Design says..”Designer Nuno Teixeira believes every computer should be two faced and with more curves…Taking a cue from the 1950’s CINERAMA wrap-around movie theatre screens, …

LED Bamboo Lights – Sevcan Yardim’s Sustainable Outdoor Lighting

(TrendHunter.com) Developed by Sevcan Yardim, a recent graduate from the METU (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara, these new lights incorporate LEDs inside bamboo for a quite startling night-time effect. She developed the concept as a result of her research into parks and gardens, with the intent of develop…

Storage Units as Second Homes – GarageTown Play Spaces (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What a fantastic idea: using storage units as play spaces!

Designers and builders of storage units realized that people were using these rental spaces for more stashing their boxes full of junk, so they took the idea and ran with it. The units by GarageTown are perfect for kid play or for adult pl…

C4DCafe Speaker Design Contest (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are pictures of entries in a speaker design contest by C4DCafe. The designs are mostly meant to be aesthetically pleasing and some of the gadgets were made to be more for decoration than for functionality. Some of these speaker prototypes definitely look kind of weird. Still others are really …

Death Star Inspired Hotel – Full Moon in Azerbaijan

(TrendHunter.com) Officially, they’re calling it the “Full Moon” – everyone else is calling it the Death Star. Yep, in our very own galaxy (specifically, Baku, Azerbaijan), the construction of Star War’s most famous man-made planet is being planned. The Death Moon is going to be a 521-feet high hotel with 382 rooms, …

Funky Converted Warehouse – Mumbai Blue Frog Serenity (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When “Susan” and “Robeert” at the call center in Mumbai, India gets done dealing with Vista problems, they want solitude and serenity. No problems. Please hold. The Blue Frog can provide all that.

Just looking at the circular motif with the soft blue lighting can release the tension in shoulders. …

Magnetized Liquid PC Adapts to Special Needs – Siafu Morphs Surface (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Siafu will make it possible for people with vision loss or severe impairment to interact by touch.

The key to this innovation is the awesome concept material, magneclay, or magnetized liquid. It’s “an oil based synthetic agent that possesses limitless morphing capabilities,” according to Yanko Des…

Milan’s Portable Toilet Art – Sebach Designs in Arezzo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Italy’s portable toilet giant, Sebach unveiled portable johns for art lovers in Arezzo, Milan last year with Michelangelo’s “David” and an artwork by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli elegantly decorating the toilets. The display of such exquisite work of art on those portable johns, in my mind…

E-Paper Sheet Music – EMS

(TrendHunter.com) I’m sure that if you’re a musician carrying around stacks of sheet music, it defiantly doesn’t help with getting the ladies. Well fret no more because EMS (E-paper Music Score) has just given you that little oomph of technological goodness to score it big with the ladies.

EMS is a device that …

Unexpected Urban Decor – Baccarat Chandeliers on Rue des Hallebardes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) How romantic would it be to stroll the streets of France an instead of streetlamps, had your evening stroll illuminated by the cascading glow from chandeliers?

It must have been vraiment enchanting to see these glowing in the night in the small town bordering Germany. They are hung as part of the …

Eco Message in a Bottle – Bottle of M (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The inventors of Bottle of M were trying to think of a way to drive awareness to bottled water consumers for the need to recycle their empty containers.

Cheong Yian Ling, Cindy Liew , Joanne Lin and Lionel Wong, the Singapore-based designers, took their inspiration from the cigarette packaging the…

Shake & Wake to Music Alarm – The Minute Glass (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) At first glance, I thought this alarm clock looked fantastic, with a funky, green floral graphic on a clear cylinder encasing what looks like an hourglass. Upon reading about it, I’m astounded that it is also environmentally friendly and promises to get the user out of bed with a good groove.

The …

Strap-On Chair – Legless Chair Looking For Love

(TrendHunter.com) The Strap-On Chair, created by Cambridge, Massachusetts born and raised designer Annika Schmidt, is proudly taking on the established preconceptions of what a chair should look like. The chair is one of a progressive series of designs, and like its name suggests it is only fully functional when it i…

One Night Stand Architecture – Demountable M-Hotel in East London (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve heard of pop up boutiques and pop up restaurants, but now Architect Tim Pyne has designed a temporary hotel is London’s trendy Hoxton. Pyne aims to start building works this summer and intends to fill the disused site for 8 years (which will be long enough to cash in on the Olympics boom). …