Maserati Concept Designed by Students – Chicane to Debut at Geneva Auto Show

(TrendHunter.com) The Maserati is one of the premium sports cars in the world. They have taken a bold step and asked a group of students from Italy’s Istituto Europeo DiDesign to come up with a concept. It’s known as the Maserati Chicane coupe. The final design will be 2+2 seating with a front mounted V8 engine. It w…

All Wonders of the World in Dubai – Falcon City of Wonders (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The biggest pyramid in the world will no longer be in Egypt; rather, it will be in Dubai. As part of a new project called Falcon City, Dubailand will be adding replicas of the world’s wonders that will, from an aerial view, resemble the shape of a falcon. The buildings will be used for commercial an…

Sofa Wall – Two-sided WallFa (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s a wall. It’s a sofa. It’s a WallFa! What fun this would be. A two-sided piece of furniture so that people can sit on either side and have some fun with the person or persons behind them. Groping encouraged! The movements and touch can give you a hint of who or what is going on behind you. It l…

Nudist Flights – Naked Travel in Germany With OssiUrlaub.de

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve ever dreamed of flying naked, you better head to Germany! A travel agency there is offering the first nudist holiday flights for vacationers who like to take the bare minimum when traveling.

OssiUrlaub.de will start booking a trial naked voyage this week which will leave from Erfurt in ea…

Spacecraft-Style Kitchen – Ultra Modern Alight Kitchen (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Nope, not a kitchen designed by NASA or by an OB-GYN. It was designed by a legitimate kitchen designer that works for Altera Design Studio. It’s called the Alight Kitchen. It has a built in oven to keep things warm and the temperature is displayed by bar codes. Four hollow plates spin like rings in …

Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback Unveiled – Prototype-S

(TrendHunter.com) Mitsubishi will unveil their hot new Lancer Sportback, the Prototype-S in March at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show.

The sporty little five-door hatchback will offer not only a stunning design and but power too — 240 horse power from a 2 liter engine! The high res sketches were released today along with …

Cake on a Stick – DIY Cakesicle

(TrendHunter.com) These little treats may look like pink lollipops at first glance, but trying to suck on them might not work so well; they’re soft as cake!

Cakesicles are actually easy to make; all you need is cake mix (yes, out of the box is just fine), lollipop sticks and pink candy melts for the coating. Choose…

$94,000 Diamond-Studded Cell Phone – Tiffany & Co Mobile

(TrendHunter.com) If the iPhone just isn’t trendy enough, how about a cell phone studded with 400 Tiffany diamonds? Tiffany & Co has teamed up with Softbank Mobile of Japan to produce this $94,000 beauty. The 400 diamonds will total over 20 carats making this one of the flashiest and trendiest phones around.

Radio-Controlled Contraceptives – Reversible Vasectomy

(TrendHunter.com) OK boys, listen up, it’s time you stopped counting on the ladies to care for birth control. No more excuses that you’re not willing up to give up your manhood for good; there is now a reversible vasectomy… and it’s controlled by radio.

The contraceptive implant is being developed in Australia. Un…

Canned Cheeseburger – Junk Food With 12 Month Shelf Life

(TrendHunter.com) To me thinking of camping food brings on images of dehydrated space style food with ice cream being the most exciting thing on offer. However, Swiss-based company Katadyn have begun to change all of that with the ultimate in convenience food. The World’s first cheese burger in a tin!

All the food t…

Fish Sorbet Dessert – Pacojet

(TrendHunter.com) It’s called Pacojet and it is a monster of a blender. Touting themselves as a ‘breakthrough in food processing technology,’ Pacojet was designed to create frozen desserts – all you have to do is freeze something (like a whole fish) and run it through the machine to create a… well… fish sorbet. T…

Sneaker Evolution Art – Koi Club x Asics Collectors Box

(TrendHunter.com) The Koi Club x Asics Collectors Box manages to put the billion years of human evolution into four basic stages and make it a work of art, from which any schoolchild would find it easy to remember Darwin’s theories – from fish to sneaker.

This is another fine example of the Koi Club finding new way…

Ingenious Flat Pack Furniture – Small Space Living Made Eco-Easy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets of wood, metal or even cardboard.

There is a range of home decor items and furnishing availabe in thsi concept, from chairs and stools to entire flat pack houses.

In addition to being clever and aest…

Jewelry Perfumes – Estee Lauder Luxury Scents

(TrendHunter.com) Perfumes give us a personal touch and represent us in the way we would like the world to see us. From vanilla scents to more intriguing or fresh scents, the world of perfumes complete our existence.

Some people, myself included, collect the most interesting and beautiful perfume bottles. Some of th…

Extreme Garden Art – Cultivating Calabash (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A Chinese gardener has focused his obsessive behavior on growing calabash, a vine whose fruit can be eaten or dried out and used as a container. Sounds like a perfectly normal endeavor until you learn that Mr. Zha has spent 6 years and $830,000 on perfecting his hobby. These are no ordinary calabash…

Remote Controlled Color – Multi-Color LED Lightbulb

(TrendHunter.com) These remote controlled, dimmable, multi-colored LED lightbulbs use only 5 Watts and have a 10,000 hour lifetime.

By using the remote control, you can pick from 15 colors including white, how cool is that? I’d like to have these all over my house; I guess I’m into mood lighting. Uncrate lists …

Futuristic Steel Armchair – Alaska Chair

(TrendHunter.com) Alaska – The perfect name for a chair that looks as cool as the state it is named after. This mirror polished Stainless Steel Armchair is the perfect accompaniment to all the other stainless steel furniture and accessories you have in accumulated your home. Emilio Nanni is the designer behind the fu…

Touch-Screen Menus – Restaurants & Bars with Interactive Tabletops (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A wave of ubiquitous computing is sweeping the world, with incredible inventions like touch-screen tabletops hitting restaurants and bars, allowing for waiterless ordering with interactive menus, or sheer entertainment.

The Adour restaurant in NYC’s St. Regis hotel opens tomorrow and will offer an …

Rollercoaster Metro – Carmelit Slanted Subway (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve ever wondered how the morning commute could be made more fun, consider getting a job in Haifa, Israel where their subway cars travel the sloping underground like a mini rollercoaster.

Even before patrons climb aboard the Carmelit Subway, which runs up Mt. Carmel on a considerable angle, …

Pink Sugar After Dinner – DIY Cotton Candy at Kenka, NYC (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A hip Japanese restaurant in New York has put an innovative spin on the after dinner treat. Instead of passing out mints or little chocolates after a meal of gyozo and okonomiyaki, the East Village restaurant gives each patron a tiny jar of bright pink sugar.

Without further explanation, this woul…