Interactive Love Story – Story Telling on Pavements

(TrendHunter.com) She Loves The Moon’ is an interactive love story / art installation found on the streets of San Fransisco. To ‘read’ the book you choose simply follow the arrows which correspond with the story line you would like to follow.

Without giving too much away there are two endings to this story; one happ…

Food Shaped Soap For Chefs – Bathropolitan Soap Bars (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I would love to recommend these creations for chefs, home cooks, and fabulous gift givers.

Bathropolitan New York City Soap Crafters was inspired by my brother, who has been a chef in some of the top eateries in Los Angles and often complains about cooking odors and grease on his hands. His frustr…

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…

Glowing PET Bottle Art – Joan Nadal’s Eco-Design BoB Collection

(TrendHunter.com) Did you know that there are more than 10,000 P.E.T bottles wasted every second in the world?

Eco designers from Andorra (a little country between Spain and France) have been transforming those beautiful bottles into cool design objects. Joan Nadal’s works bring not only style to your home but, more…

Painted Nudevertising – Wearing Nothing But Ultra Thin Panty Liners (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What better way to show the sheerness of a feminine hygiene product than by using a totally naked model? Ultra Thin Panty Liners had these print ads created to promote the launch of their product in South Africa.

The images of girls wearing nothing but body paint convey the message quite clearly: …

1st Microsoft Surface Game – Firefly (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Just about everyone who’s seen the Microsoft Surface is captivated by its possibility, and eager to see more of what it does. I know I can’t wait to see it live.

This video shows a new game for the touch-screen table top called Firefly. It’s the first game developed specifically for the Surface an…

In Vitro Grown Jacket – Victimless Leather

(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a new kind of lab coat; the jacket is actually grown in vitro. The science is no longer just for breeding animals and people; it’s now been applied to animal products including leather jackets. This makes it possible to wear goods such as animal skins without ever having to harm a creature.
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Droplet Holds Self-Destructing MP3s – Drop of Music

(TrendHunter.com) Poised with the question of what a “drop of music” would look like in 3D, German designer Noa Lerner came up with the Music Drop concept. The tiny ear piece, shaped like a droplet of fluid, contains a piece of music of can only be listened to once; “one drop of music that contains one song that can …

60s Home Theater Room – 1500 Square Feet of Retro Groovy

(TrendHunter.com) The problem with this home theater is NOTHING. So cool, even Norbit would be fun to watch (with lots of adult beverages.)

James Biber from Pentagram designed this baby and it is incredibly wicked. It’s 1500 square feet, with the perfect mood lighting and the funky retro bean bag chairs. Pass me an…

Girlfriend Simulators – Accessories For Lonely Men (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When she’s there, she does little things that irritate the heck out of you, like hogging the blankets on cold nights. But when she’s gone, you miss her horribly, quirks and all.

If you can relate, you’ll appreciate the Accessories for Lonely Men by Noam Toran, which will solve all that. They inclu…

Bio-Mechanical Sculptures – The Work of Christopher Conte (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Christopher Conte is a New York educated sculptor who began drawing at age 3.

In 2007, Conte began offering his really unique pieces of art for sale to the public for the first time and his work has been recently covered in Wired, Popular Science, Make Magazine, and used by The Discovery Channel a…

Computers of the Future – The Curved iMac (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Curved iMac is a mock-up conceived by designer Nuno Texeira. This mock-up looks simple but impossibly elegant. Yanko Design says..”Designer Nuno Teixeira believes every computer should be two faced and with more curves…Taking a cue from the 1950’s CINERAMA wrap-around movie theatre screens, …

LED Bamboo Lights – Sevcan Yardim’s Sustainable Outdoor Lighting

(TrendHunter.com) Developed by Sevcan Yardim, a recent graduate from the METU (Middle East Technical University) in Ankara, these new lights incorporate LEDs inside bamboo for a quite startling night-time effect. She developed the concept as a result of her research into parks and gardens, with the intent of develop…

Amazing Geeky Art – Wood Sculptures by Mike Rea (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You can not help but feel captivated and amazed by Mike Rea’s geek-inspired wood sculptures. I went in thinking he is just another obsessed geek, but after reading his artist statement and an in-depth interview I find his art philosophical, thought-provoking and utterly genius.

Rea’s goal is to cre…

Storage Units as Second Homes – GarageTown Play Spaces (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What a fantastic idea: using storage units as play spaces!

Designers and builders of storage units realized that people were using these rental spaces for more stashing their boxes full of junk, so they took the idea and ran with it. The units by GarageTown are perfect for kid play or for adult pl…

Fake Taxidermy Part VIII – 11 Robotic Hunting Trophies (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It seems the fascination with animal heads on the walls isn’t letting up. These robotic animal head wall mounts make this our eighth fake taxidermy feature. We’ve seen classy antler chandeliers, and we’ve seen very tacky joke pieces. These are by far the most interaction of the bunch.

Motion sensor…

‘Gravity Lamp’ Lasts 200 Years, No Plug-in – The Gravia

(TrendHunter.com) Let’s start with the punch line. This lamp will last for 200 years if used 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. Oh, and it gets its power from gravity, so no extrenal power resources are needed. Does it get any greener than this? The Gravia, gravity lamp, by a Virginia Tech student won second place in th…

C4DCafe Speaker Design Contest (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are pictures of entries in a speaker design contest by C4DCafe. The designs are mostly meant to be aesthetically pleasing and some of the gadgets were made to be more for decoration than for functionality. Some of these speaker prototypes definitely look kind of weird. Still others are really …

Death Star Inspired Hotel – Full Moon in Azerbaijan

(TrendHunter.com) Officially, they’re calling it the “Full Moon” – everyone else is calling it the Death Star. Yep, in our very own galaxy (specifically, Baku, Azerbaijan), the construction of Star War’s most famous man-made planet is being planned. The Death Moon is going to be a 521-feet high hotel with 382 rooms, …

Zero Carbon City – Smith & Gill Design For Masdar City (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The centerpiece of the world’s first zero-carbon city, Masdar City, has been designed by a Chicago area firm, Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill.

Its 1.4 million square feet will generate more energy than it consumes. It will cost $300,000,000 and will use the world’s largest integrated solar power statio…