Magnetic Field Powers 1,301 Fluorescent Lights – Flickering FIELD by Richard Box (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re into nerdy art forms, you’ll surely appreciate this art installation.

In his project, Richard Box combined nature with science as he laid 1,301 fluorescent bulbs on a 3,600 square metre field, with nothing above it but power lines.

The lights, which look like a freshly harvested wheat …

Funky Converted Warehouse – Mumbai Blue Frog Serenity (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When “Susan” and “Robeert” at the call center in Mumbai, India gets done dealing with Vista problems, they want solitude and serenity. No problems. Please hold. The Blue Frog can provide all that.

Just looking at the circular motif with the soft blue lighting can release the tension in shoulders. …

Rolling Ball Controls Water Flow & Temp – Smith Newman’s Sink (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This faucet belongs in Futurama home. It totally changes the way hot and cold water are mixed and controlled. Get this: you move the ball in or out to control the flow and pressure. Moving the ball left or right controls the temperature. The whole surface lights up to give you a visual clue as to t…

Art Chair From Thousands of Toothpicks – Lune Blanche (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Young artist/designer Ah-young Yi used Wisteria to make this amazing piece of art he named, Lune Blanche which means white moon. Lune Blanche reflects a pattern of repetitive nature of the rule and the representation of a work of art. Hundreds and thousands of wooden ‘toothpicks’ were combined toget…

Magnetized Liquid PC Adapts to Special Needs – Siafu Morphs Surface (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Siafu will make it possible for people with vision loss or severe impairment to interact by touch.

The key to this innovation is the awesome concept material, magneclay, or magnetized liquid. It’s “an oil based synthetic agent that possesses limitless morphing capabilities,” according to Yanko Des…

Milan’s Portable Toilet Art – Sebach Designs in Arezzo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Italy’s portable toilet giant, Sebach unveiled portable johns for art lovers in Arezzo, Milan last year with Michelangelo’s “David” and an artwork by Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli elegantly decorating the toilets. The display of such exquisite work of art on those portable johns, in my mind…

Lamp Melts During Use – Ikarus Wax Lamp

(TrendHunter.com) Like to change your light fixtures often for a new look? Here is a fixture that melts right before your very eyes over a months’ time.

As the Ikarus Wax Lamp melts, it takes on all sorts of weird shapes; no two lamps will look alike. Like pouring hot lead into water, you can let your imagination r…

E-Paper Sheet Music – EMS

(TrendHunter.com) I’m sure that if you’re a musician carrying around stacks of sheet music, it defiantly doesn’t help with getting the ladies. Well fret no more because EMS (E-paper Music Score) has just given you that little oomph of technological goodness to score it big with the ladies.

EMS is a device that …

Unexpected Urban Decor – Baccarat Chandeliers on Rue des Hallebardes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) How romantic would it be to stroll the streets of France an instead of streetlamps, had your evening stroll illuminated by the cascading glow from chandeliers?

It must have been vraiment enchanting to see these glowing in the night in the small town bordering Germany. They are hung as part of the …

Eco Message in a Bottle – Bottle of M (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The inventors of Bottle of M were trying to think of a way to drive awareness to bottled water consumers for the need to recycle their empty containers.

Cheong Yian Ling, Cindy Liew , Joanne Lin and Lionel Wong, the Singapore-based designers, took their inspiration from the cigarette packaging the…

Shake & Wake to Music Alarm – The Minute Glass (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) At first glance, I thought this alarm clock looked fantastic, with a funky, green floral graphic on a clear cylinder encasing what looks like an hourglass. Upon reading about it, I’m astounded that it is also environmentally friendly and promises to get the user out of bed with a good groove.

The …

Strap-On Chair – Legless Chair Looking For Love

(TrendHunter.com) The Strap-On Chair, created by Cambridge, Massachusetts born and raised designer Annika Schmidt, is proudly taking on the established preconceptions of what a chair should look like. The chair is one of a progressive series of designs, and like its name suggests it is only fully functional when it i…

One Night Stand Architecture – Demountable M-Hotel in East London (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve heard of pop up boutiques and pop up restaurants, but now Architect Tim Pyne has designed a temporary hotel is London’s trendy Hoxton. Pyne aims to start building works this summer and intends to fill the disused site for 8 years (which will be long enough to cash in on the Olympics boom). …

Transient Art Pavilion – Zaha Hadid’s Chanel Design (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) On 28 February, the new Chanel ‘Mobile Art Container’ will be unveiled in Hong Kong, designed by Zaha Hadid, as a transient art pavilion that will roam Tokyo, NYC, London, Moscow and Paris until 2010. According to Hadid, the design is “a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel, unmistakeable for i…

Luxury Living Outside – Lucious Mazuvo Balu Outdoor Bed (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) CSI Miami fans that drool everytime a poolside cabana is shown, can now do one better. A poolside bed. Mazuvo buit this weatherproof bed called the Balu garden bed. Honey colored wicker with washable pillows will be a comfy place to snooze away the afternoon in luxury and style. When not in use, th…

Steampunked Gadgets – Mouse Looks Like Furnace (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Unklain is a steampunker maniac. He made this computer mouse that is designed to look like a furnace. The pipes that form the cage to support your hand are linked to fake coal and an orange LED to look like hot coals. To take something so indispensible and techy and make it look old and mechanical i…

Glacier Graffiti – German Tags New Zealand Ice Face

(TrendHunter.com) A German man got himself in trouble with the law after flexing his artistic skills in an “art” form being referred to as glacier graffiti.

Jan Philip Scharbert was vacationing in New Zealand when he took decided to tag the ice face of Franz Josef Glacier with graffiti. The 28 year old used regular…

Flat Pack Garden Pot – Electricwig Design (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Founded by Tim Denton and Johanna Van Daalen in 2001, Electricwig has a reputation for creating furniture, objects and installations with a stylish sense of humour. The 123 Garden aims to help people make the most out of a small urban outdoor space, with a flat pack solution for greening any narrow…

Spoonless Stirring – Ceramix For Mix (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) French designers Florian Dussopt, Jérémie Reneau and Julie Girard do not like the unhygienic use of the same spoon among many cups. So they came up with the Ceramix For Mix saucer and cup design, introducing a new way of stirring sugars in your drink without a spoon. Their quest for function creat…

Jellyfish Chandelier – LED Medusa

(TrendHunter.com) There’s something outrageously elegant about jellyfish, which is why it’s no surprise so many designers have looked to these bizarre creatures for creative inspiration. Take this lamp for example.

The Medusa chandelier by Géraldine Gonzalez illuminates with magnificent LED lights, adding a vibran…