Never Miss a Call or Forget Your Phone – BluAlert Vibrating Bluetooth Wristband (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This actually might be a pretty useful gadget. I often miss calls and messages when I am listening to music on my iPod or when my phone is on vibration mode inside my baggy pants. I also have forgotten my phone behind on a few occasions. The self-explaining BluAlert Vibrating Bluetooth Wristband mak…

Custom Color Jobs For Your Tech – ColorWare (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) An item that is inseparable from the geek lifestyle: a MacBook. Or dreaming about a MacBook. Or if you’re like me, it’s dreaming of a baby blue (as blue is the new pink, for your information) MacBook. Although I wouldn’t refuse one in pink either, just to pay tribute to the cliché of clichés…

Virtual Living Via Mobile – Second Life For Cell Phones

(TrendHunter.com) Second Lifers start saving up your minutes, or negotiate a new cell plan because Second Life is coming to mobiles. In the most exciting development since Webkinz Vollee has the technology to use 3G handsets. With all the graphics this should be fun.

Phone, Computer & More Under Your Skin – Digital Tattoo Interface

(TrendHunter.com) The Greener Gadgets Conference had some really ‘interesting’ concepts. Take this concept by Jim Mielke for example; a gadget that is ‘tattooed’ under your skin and runs on blood by turning glucose and oxygen into electricity.

It’s an electronic interface embedded under the skin that looks like a t…

Super Stylish Fashion Phone – The Edge Phone (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Edge Phone, with its fashion-oriented design and glowing glass keyboard, uses light and touch technology to target the style-conscious fashionistas. To answer an incoming call, simply slide the glass keyboard out. An embedded LED illuminates the etched numerics via refraction creating a glowing …

New iPhone Ad – “The Great Thing” (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen how viral Apple’s commercials get, so we thought we’d fill you in before everyone’s seen the latest. Plus, when this one gets spoofed, you’ll want to have the original to compare it to. The latest iPhone commercial is called “The Great Thing” and emphasizes how truly fantastic it is to be…

Turn Your WiFi Gadget into Mobile TV – PacketVideo Mobile Broadcast Receiver (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) PacketVideo (PV) is releasing a pocketable mobile broadcast receiver that turns WiFi-enabled phones and personal media players into mobile TVs. The portable receiver decodes a digital TV signal and repurposes it for use on the phone, sending it via a wireless signal to a playback device.

The recei…

Charge by Movement, Not Batteries – Atlas Kinetic Phone (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You will no longer worry about recharging your phone on a long trip, or be able to make up excuses about your phone being out of juice. The Atlas Kinetic Phone uses the daily movement of a cellular phone to generate electricity. And it does so in an elegant and stylish design, with a central sapphir…

Eco Cell Phone Shell – Bamboo Chute Phone (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In a time where the eco-friendliness of a product or service is a primary concern of consumers, designers need to innovate to answer the same functional demands while incorporating greener ways and not sacrificing on design. Michael Laut’s Chute Phone is a prime example.

One of the most eco-friendl…

High-End Photography in Your Phone – New Cybershot C902 & C702 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) If you love taking pictures anytime on the spot, Sony Ericsson is promising best-in class picture quality beyond just megapixels with the new C702 Cyber-shot™ and C902 Cyber-shot™. The models, presented at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, build on the Cyber-shot™ legacy by adding a few ne…

Detect The Intensity of Virtual Kisses – Kiss Phone

(TrendHunter.com) We told you cell phone kissing was a hot activity in Japan, and now kissing your loved one from a distance via mobile is even easier thanks to the Kiss Phone.

Better than just using video and making loud smooching sounds, this neat gadget from PROinvention can actually detect the intensity of your…

Mobile Phones for Developing Nations – $20 Phone From India

(TrendHunter.com) India telecoms are rolling out the $20 cell phone. Developed by Spice, its a no-nonsense, no frills phone aimed at the lowest end of the market . There is no screen. It’s a phone that only makes phone calls! What a revolutionary concept! But with half the world without any phone service, there is a …

Mini Mobile is Adorable & Functional – Neo 808i (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This petite little mobile phone is about as tiny as it can get while still proving functional. The baby phone, the Neo 808i, comes in real brushed aluminum casing in pink with silver accents and black with touches of red and features a keypad that almost resembles precious gem stones.

The camera p…

New Hands-Free Concept – The Tie Up

(TrendHunter.com) I fully support this. I am tired of people walking around with weird-looking hands-free gadget stuck in their ears. The Tie Up is a new concept for hands-free communication that tackles the problem of poor sound quality (e.g., echo, speakerphone effect) while having a stylish design derived from a b…

Touchscreen Smartphones for the Masses – New Sony Ericsson G900 & G700 (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Finally, we don’t have to shell out more than $500 to have a powerful phone. Sony Ericsson announed a new G line of touchscreen smartphones for the masses. The first G-models, G900 and G700, were unveiled at the Mobile World Congress, Spain.

Press Release

10 February 2008

The G700 is here to he…

Phone Tech Transforms Fashion Week – Nokia 6131 NFC (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) A few key players in the mobile phone world are using at London Fashion Week, which is currently running, as an opportune venue to test drive some innovative new technologies like NFC’s Instant Fashion Feedback.

Nokia, for example is working with designer Emilio de la Morena who is using Near Field…

Smoking Hot New Phones – Samsung Dual Touch Chic G400, F480 & F400 B&O;Slider (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I’m not just saying this phone is stylish, it actually is called the Samsung Dual Touch Chic G400. It’s one of three hot new phones the company has debuted at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, along with the F480 and F400 B&O;Slider. Stop drooling!

The Chic, shown in the center of the photo, is a…

Video LCD Binoculars (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Your video’s all fussy and distorted. Finding it hard to focus. Hoping to escape the cinematography of your own four walls, well have you tried looking right outside your window. You even have a port to supply your online infantry. If you liked ‘Spy’s Like Us’ then you’ll love these. Forget how many…

Nokia’s Green Phone – ‘Remade’ is All Recycled (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It doesn’t get any greener than this. A mobile phone made entirely from recycled material. Nokia unveiled ‘remade’, an environment friendly phone concept at the Mobile World Congress. The silver-coloured handset’s chasis is made with plastic from drink bottles while its rubber keypad is made from o…

Multimedia Computer Phone – The Nokia N96 Super Mobile (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Nokia has the right to insist on calling it a “multimedia computer” rather than a phone. Nokia unveiled the highly anticipated N96 dual slider at Mobile World Congress. The N95 successor packs powerful punches with 16GB of storage internally in addition to a microSD slot (take that iPhone), a 5 mega…