Rocking Horse Toilets – Perry Dixon’s Saddle Toilet

(TrendHunter.com) Freud might say this designer most certainly underwent trauma during his toilet training years. Designer Perry Dixon has built a better mousetrap, or rather, a better toilet. The claim is that the Rocking Horse Toilet provides health benefits because of its unique construction. The “rider” can expel…

Mural Dishwashers – Horizontal Design Hangs On Wall (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tired of unloading the dishwasher when the dishes are clean? A totally new dishwasher concept designed by Marie-Christine Lacasse and Marie Claude Savard, and unveiled at the University of Quebec in Montreal Design Grad Show, could prove to be a very interesting addition to your home. Their version…

Swarovski Luxury Furniture – Finkeldei’s Crystal Edition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) German manufacturer, Finkeldei introduced the Crystal Edition, an upholstered Swarovski crystal-encrusted high-end line of furniture. The luxury furniture includes sofas, armchairs, chaise lounges, tables beds, and accessories. There is no price mentioned but you can be sure that this crystal-stud…

Making Wireless Stylish – Linksys Makeover

(TrendHunter.com) The famous blue Linksys machines are now synonymous with wireless routers. Like the rest of electronics, the blue boxes have upgraded their look. Linksys has redesigned their routers – making them black and sleek. Just when everyone thought they knew what was going on…

Sink Art – Lace Drains (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These gorgeous designs are part of The Ornamented Life collection by Brazilian designer Joan Meroz. The unique pieces are like jewels for the sink. The metal Lace Drains are functional and dazzling, and transform boring drains into artistic statement pieces.

The Drain Dirt-Catchers are little filte…

Spraying Steel Knuckles – Pepper Knuckles

(TrendHunter.com) Next time you meet a dark shady character in that dimly lit alley, be sure you are prepared, not just to defend yourself but to belt a knuckle to their face. Designer Idan Arbel came up with the idea of combining both pepper spray and steel knuckles into one design called the Pepper Knuckle.

It is…

Mood Plants – The Flower Nurse (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designed by QianJun Gao, the Flower Nurse is an artificial potted plant where the flowers “express” their needs by changing color. In addition, when they’re feeling neglected, the leaves droop, just as a real plant’s would when it hasn’t been watered or has been kept out of the sun.

I am all for c…

Silver Leather Sofas – Hollywood Stardom (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The sizzling metallic trend in fashion and cosmetics has chicly drifted to living room furnishings. $8,100 will get you the hottest in glam sofas; the “Hollywood Stardom” sofa, made in Italy from fine silver Italian leather is just what you need to make your lounge the hippest in the ‘burb.

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ReCycled Bike Chairs – Tour de France Lounger

(TrendHunter.com) The Tour de France lounge chair, complete with flaming tires, horn and a handlebar base is any cyclist’s dream. It actually looks comfortable with black padded seat and back on spoked rims. This cool chair, made from recycled and new bike parts, would look fantastic in a sports-themed bar. Can’…

Eco-Luxury Architecture – $15 Million Orchid House (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is the design of a sustainable, eco-friendly house shaped in the form of a bee orchid. The house, which is called The Orchid and is located in the UK, uses geothermal heating and an underground pump to create its own energy. So far so good.

The Orchid, designed by Sarah Featherstone, sits on 5…

Pump Action Laptop Surfaces – The Airboard (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve ever worked with your laptop actually placed on your lap then you’ll definitely appreciated this design by Ki-Seung Lee. The pump action laptop surface Airboard comes to the rescue of millions of lap-surfers worldwide.

Regardless of what you’re using your laptop for, the Airboard makes i…

Color Coded Homes – Rainbow Bookshelf (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A lot of people make fun of me for going crazy with highlights and color coding, but the Rainbow Bookshelf takes organization but hue to an extreme.

Chotda organized his extensive library by jacket color, putting all red books, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple together, in the order of the r…

Aquarium Desks 2 – AZOO Eco-Desk (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The last aquarium desk we featured, the Milk, was neat, but it was only big enough to house one goldfish. The Azoo Eco-Desk Lifestyle Aquarium, however, is big enough for an entire school of tropical fish.

Better than simply being a mini aqua park below your work surface, the Azoo also takes care o…

Utensil Dart Boards – Thout UtiliTile

(TrendHunter.com) The THOUT UtiliTILE is a storage unit for your utensils. Instead of storing your spoons, folks and knives in a drawer, you can hurl them as you would a dart or a knife into this mounted tile on your wall.

“Ideal for small-space living, UtiliTILE: Dining is a series of simple-to-mount yet elegant l…

Expandable Furniture – Cube 6 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designer Naho Matsuno has designed a classic piece of furniture called the Cube 6 made of birch plywood and maple. The cube unfolds into six tiny stools that would be ideal when you have a small group of friends pop by one morning and all of them start whining that they want to sit down.

The piece…

Burners as Hotplates – Sovrappensiero

(TrendHunter.com) Ever wanted to serve your food fresh, piping hot food straight from the stove? Well then this is what you need. The stove designed by Sovrappensiero is unique in that you can actually remove its modular burner units and use them as hot plates while serving the food. Each of the modular units has a r…

High Tech Designer Tubs – Teuco Sorgente Hot Tub (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Teuco Hot Tub “Sorgente” by Lenci Design has a seamless sunken profile design. The tub ensures a tranquil experience with 8 Hydro-silence whirlpool jets. But what makes this tub stand out from the rest is the features. It has a control panel or remote control operation, underwater lighting, …

3D Board Games – $150 Clue Premier Edition

(TrendHunter.com) After a steady decline after the video game boom, board games are regaining popularity, but only because the companies behind them are innovating. One such way is by upgrading from 2-Dimensional boards to 3D, pop-up ones.

The Clue Premier Edition, retailing at $150, has a game board that is litera…

Crystal Cross Overs – Randomly Crystallised Swarovski (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Swedish designers Front created Randomly Crystallised which is a collection of vases and lights for the Swarovski Crystal Palace, a high-end crystal and glass store.

The pieces were made by combining cut crystals with hard blown liquid crystal.

“Front has experimented with crystal as a material,…

Bleeding Paint Chairs – Anna ter Haar Designs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These brilliant chairs by Anna ter Haar simply demand admiration. The white chairs appear to be bleeding rainbows of wet paint, the fantastic hues dripping from holes drilled in the corners.

The vibrant colours just pop, especially as photographed against the pure white background.

This chair’s g…