3D Medical Simulators – PerioSim for Dental Students (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Learning to be a dentist isn’t easy, but with the help of technological advances like the PerioSim 3D dental simulator, training becomes much more efficient for students.

Directly on the screen, students use a stylus which looks like an “explorer,” the scary-looking, pointy device dentists use to …

Massaging Backpacks – Airo

(TrendHunter.com) If you don’t mind looking like the Hunchback of Notredom, this Airo messaging backpack will provide you a relaxing massage without having to beg someone for it.

Now that I think about it, having someone walking behind you rubbing your shoulders might not be a good look either.

If my little German …

Coffee Softdrinks – JavaPop Organic Coffee On-The-Go (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Who, besides the British who have their tea, is able to start the work day without that much-needed shot of caffeine? That being said, who has time to brew a nice fresh cup of coffee?

In recent years, the US consumer market for on-the-go coffee exploded. Most beverage manufacturers hastily introdu…

Saving Lives – Cell Phone With Defibrillator (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It may be just a concept right now, but the cell phone defibrillator would feature electrodes in the buttons that would jolt the heart back to a regular beat when pressed to the someone’s chest. It would also contain a heart monitor for identifying problems and GPS tracking once the defibrillator is…

Cell Phone Workouts – PumpOne Exercise Program (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Phone fitness is a new workout program to be download and stored on your mobile phone. PumpOne’s Pumped for Summer 2008 is a line of simple workouts to cover strength to Pilates to yoga to flexibility. The programs demonstrate start and end positions and which muscles you will be working one.

Oxygen Hospitals for Pets – O2 Doghouse

(TrendHunter.com) We know the wonders oxygen can do for our health, from sharpening our minds to reviving injured muscles. It only makes sense that it would do the same for all living creatures, including our four legged friends! Making sure no mutt gets left behind, the Japanese have invented the O2 Doghouse.

Funct…

Earth Hour 2008 – Times Square Shuts off Billboards (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) On Saturday, March 29th, from 8:00 to 9:00 pm, millions of people world-wide will be celebrating Earth Hour.

Participants will shut off lights and TVs, and go dark for the event, which is in support of improving our natural environment.

In the U.S., dozens of major cities from the Golden Gate Br…

Guerilla Obesity Awareness Campaign – Every Fifth Child is Overweight (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Child obesity is fast becoming a global epidemic.

The Health Promotion Switzerland foundation has come up with a creative guerilla campaign to raise the awareness of this serious issue.

The campaign uses the fact/slogan “Every Fifth Child is Overweight” on stickers placed on creatively designed p…

Powerful PSAs – Sexual Abuse (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Sexual abuse is not a light subject, and this powerful appropriately creepy and disturbing public service announcement video ad successfully delivers the message: “If sexually abused children never get help, they never outgrow their trauma.”

The ad is very effective in conveying the trauma that abu…

Measuring Towel – Comfortable Weight Management

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a practical design you can use to keep track of your girlish figure. And guys, don’t cheat.

Wrap the towel around your WAIST and not UNDER your belly then declare “Yup, still a 30.”

It’s actually a playful piece, making it more fun while running around hotel rooms starkers. The designer’s…

Bio-Charging – Self-Healing Artificial Muscle Charges an iPhone

(TrendHunter.com) What’s better than successfully creating an artificial muscle that heals itself? Having that muscle charge your iPhone or other gadgets!

Combining breakthroughs in self-healing materials and artificial arms, University of California, Los Angeles researchers created such muscles that can generate e…

Ugly Food Glasses – Blue Shade Glasses Help You Lose Weight?

(TrendHunter.com) Scientific research has found blue to be the least appetizing color. This is the basis behind these blue shaded sunglasses. Supposedly, the person who wears these shades sees an ugly hue of blue that brings about a negative view of eating in general. Perhaps the blue tint subconsciously reminds us o…

Internet Addiction Official Mental Illness – Compulsive-Impulsive Disorder

(TrendHunter.com) I may soon be officially classified with a brain illness… According to the editorial of the latest issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry: Internet addiction — including “excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging” — is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that sh…

Pink Speed Bumps – Guerilla Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is a truly unique and creative campaign to raise awareness about breast check-ups. Taiba Hospital in Kuwait commissioned the JWT ad agency to come up with a strategy to increase awareness of self breast exams.

Since breast cancer is a sensitive topic in a conservative Muslim country like Kuwa…

Human-Powered Scooters – Xcelerator Hypersonic Red (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This motorless scooter is powered by your sweat (and tears?)

The new human-powered Xcelerator Hypersonic Red which comes with a steel down tube chassis, is outfitted with an ergonomic propulsion T lever placed at the back of the scooter. The brakes consist of an alloy two finger lever and the Xcel…

Voiceless Chat & Calls via Nerve-Tapping Neckband – Audeo (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Finally, a way for that annoying guy next to me at Starbucks to yap on his phone without making noise! The first “voiceless” phone call has been demonstrated at a recent conference held by microchip manufacturer Texas Instruments utilizing a new technology via a neckband that translates thought into…

Hip Folding Wheelchair for Kids – Mex’x Wheelchair

(TrendHunter.com) Innovation for children’s health is fantastic, which is why it’s so great to see the Mex’x Wheelchair for Children by Meyra-Ortopedia among six other finalists in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year.

The wheelchair was designed especially for kids with disabilities, having cool details that wou…

Fashion that Gives Directions – Turn Signal Jacket

(TrendHunter.com) Clothes that use LED’s for flare are usually intended to create a “look at me” reaction. But Leah Buechley, has designed what appears to be a practical use for clothing that lights up. Shirts for bikers that flash turn signals. The way bikers are hunched over the handlebars, wouldn’t it make more se…

Space Medicine – Kibo Japanese Experiment Module (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Japanese astronomers have officially launched Kibo, an experiment that will allow the conduction of medical research in space.

“The Japanese Experiment Module, or JEM, called Kibo — which means “hope” in Japanese — is Japan’s first human space facility and enhances the unique research capabiliti…

Robot Creates Clickable World – El-E Robot

(TrendHunter.com) This is my kind of robot, not something that will take over our civilization and kill humans, just a robot to serve me and say cool catchphrases (such as “Bob is your uncle!”) when it gets the job done. El-E is is not designed to behave like a human; rather, its aim and focus is interacting with us …