Virtually Design Your Real Home – MyDeco (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Some people redecorate their homes as often as they revamp their wardrobes. Whether you’re into frequent renos or not, decorating your home can be a fun way to refresh your life, but it’s a tedious task, especially if you have difficulty visualizing the outcome.

To take the complication out of sele…

Making WiFi Access Easier – The Orb Concept Router is Eggsactly What’s Needed (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Getting WiFi in a home or business can be a frustrating and expensive proposition. Either you break your shins and knees crawling around an attic, or hire someone to do the crawling around for you.
This concept router would make it easy is pi to set up a great network. The Orb takes advantage of a l…

Redneck Mansion

(TrendHunter.com) Just because you’re a redneck, doesn’t have to mean you can’t live in a mansion. Just look at this nifty dwelling; it’s a pretty unique, self-made living complex.

It’s composed of several trailers, some on ground level, others suspended on solid stilts, connected to the other cubicles by steel la…

9 Bizarre Computers

(TrendHunter.com) There is television show that I love called “Extreme Homes” that features modified, tweaked, and customized houses. The owners/builders of these fantastical homes have dedicated a portion of their lives to creating an image that started inside of their heads – sacrificing countless hours and a wad o…

Indoor Black Light Mini-Golf- For the Rich Geek that Hates Bowling (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If you have the space (2,400 to 3,200 for nine holes and 4,000 to 5,000 square feet for eighteen holes) and the cash ($90,000.00 for nine holes, $139,995.00 for eighteen holes attraction, includes shipping) then you can choose from these themes and putt yourself silly: The Incredible Hulk, Search fo…

Innovative Mobile Learning – iPod Touch & iPhone at ACU (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) “What iSchool did you graduate from?” That could be an interview question of the future if a new academic craze catches on.

Abilene Christian University is tossing around the idea of a new mobile learning initiative that will see all students receive their course information via iPhone or iPod Tou…

Robot Psychologist – MindMentor The Future Of Mental Healthcare

(TrendHunter.com) Clinical psychologists Jaap Hollander and Jeffrey Wijnberg from Holland have created the MindMentor the first fully-functional on-line psychologist that will be help people with their emotional problems. Admitting you need help and then going through the process of getting it is usually a big step f…

DNA Drool Detection – 23andMe Personal Genome Service (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) You probably leave samples on the sidewalk all the time, but send a sample of spit (and $1,000) to 23andMe Personal Genome Service you might get more than you bargained for. Using sophisticated DNA Drool detection instrumentation to unscramble your genetic codification, your results are then posted …

Wave Powered Boat – Suntory Mermaid II To Cruise From Hawaii To Japan (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Professor Terao of Tokai University’s oceanography department set off on February 18 to Hawaii with a novel type of boat – one that harnesses the power of the sea. The Suntory Mermaid II is a catamaran made of recycled aluminum that actually uses wave action to mechanically power the boat. Accordi…

Re-Using Fabric & Brands – Care Label Cushions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Taking very ordinary mundane everyday objects and turning them into useful and fun decorative items is all about creativity. Bridget West deserves a mention for these Care Label cushions and pillows. She created them from the fabric care labels or brand tag that we see everyday and think nothing abo…

24K Gold Paint Job – Modified Fiat 500 Pepita (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This modified Fiat 500 Pepita luxury car from Italy is painted with 24k gold and allows you to customize the interior with crocodile, snake, shark, skate or lizard lather.

For 60,000 Euros, you can choose from a wide variety of precious stones with which to embed the gearshift, hand brake, and ped…

San Francisco 2108 – Hydro-Net City Of The Future (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Futurists have nothing to lose – they can let their imaginations run wild and get publicity for many ideas and creations that will never see the light of day, like those who said that humans would fly in the 21st century. And here is another example of the future can’t-lose guessing game that imagin…

Furniture Design for Nature Lovers – Birdy Chair Chirps Love Me

(TrendHunter.com) Aww, isn’t this tweet? It’s an iddy-biddy birdy chair. Every chair is handmade of wood, liana and leather. Liana is made flexible using steam and then dried to become very sturdy. The chair is not available covered in feathers yet, only leather and faux leather. Put this out on the balcony and wait …

Deceptive Electronic Scales – For Those Paranoid About Their Body Weight (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) There are three electronic scales in the Alice Wang designed Asimov’s First Law range that highlights the fixation and psychological harm people can have with their (what they believe to be) ideal bodyweight. The collection is named after the first of the Laws of Robotics set out by author Isaac Asi…

Brazil Underwear Day – Bus Station Hosts Underwear Fashion Show & Go (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Agreed not a new type of event, as New York has its very own National Underwear Day dating back to 2003, but this similar event in Brazil (in its second year) is more of a fashion show, as it represents 13 international, national marks and shops of Brasilia and hands out advertising and marketing ma…

Real Life Sci-Fi – 5 Scenarios Poised For Reality

(TrendHunter.com) A slide show appearing on the MSN Tech & Gadgets site recently predicted “Five Sci-Fi Scenarios That Will Come True”.

In order, they are:

â–  Biometric Security (2010) – This involves using fingerprints or iris scans or the like to do more than just gain access to a room. They will soon be used i…

32,000 Barbies Represent Real Boob Jobs – Running the Numbers by Chris Jordan (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Up close, you can see that these photographs consist of some fascinating detail; the entire design is made of plastic dolls. 32,000 Barbies, to be exact.

The images, created by photographer Chris Jordan, are more than just art; they are a form of social commentary and send a message backed by frig…

Ultra Hip Parisian Bookstore – Cool Hang Out

(TrendHunter.com) I stumbled across this book store come coffee house whilst in Paris.

It was evening (around 8) and dark and cold out. The streets were very quiet, however, their was a warm light and a lot of movement coming from a shop window so I peeped in to check it out.

This book store come coffee house was…

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…

Advanced Artificial Pregnancy – Anecova Silicon Womb

(TrendHunter.com) If this doo-dad vibrates while doing in-vitro, they’ve got a great invention. OK, it’s great anyway. The Anecova Silicon Womb goes inside the woman and releases the eggs to give them a chance to find a place to land in the womb naturally.

“In the ANECOVA approach, the zygotes are placed in the mat…