Wine Lights – Set the Mood With BettyLou (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Having the appropriate lighting is one of the most fundamental parts of setting the right mood. BettyLou gets it just right, with their warm, bright and safe Wine Lights.

The wireless lamps, which are meant to be placed inside a wine glass, use lithium ion batteries which will provide that sensuou…

Disguising Technology – Fake Box Hardbox Drive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Now you can hide your data with this stylish Hardbox enclosure that looks like a hard cover book. In addition to keeping your desk looking more “educated”, you can hide the data on your 3.5 inch hard drive from prying eyes. This disguise would blend in too well next to your Harry Potter books.

The …

Phones of 2012 – Express, Share & Feel (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Finnish company Provoke Design, one of Nokia’s main design contractors, has created three concept phones that represent their vision of mobile phone design in 2012. The prototypes will be on display at the HARDCORE New Finish Design exhibition in New York starting May 17th.

The three phone models …

Watches of 2154 – Futuristic Designs by Timex & One and Co. (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Timex teamed up with One and Co. to design what they imagine could be desirable watches for the future. But not the short term future of a couple of months from now; the far future of 2154. Almost 150 years from now! Designers from more than 72 countries explored and visualized personal and portable…

Doll House Tables – Desk Mini Fortress (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Soojin Hyun designed this strange concept called the House on the Table. What looks to me like a tree house on a desk is a structure conceived as a sort of personal fortress intended to safeguard a person’s privacy. The House on the Table comes complete with a bookshelf, a vaulted ceiling, four wall…

Recycled Auto Part Art – Hubcap Creatures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What do you do with your hub caps when they wear out or become outdated? You could toss it in the garbage like most of us, but that’s not what the people do at HubcapCreatures.com. They use the hubcaps of cars to create modern art, with a heavy emphasis on fish and other creatures of the animal king…

Moving Architecture – John Körmeling’s Rotating House (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) John Körmeling’s house, which looks like a real house, can rotate completely over a span of 20 hours.

“The house will not be fit for human habitation; it consists of a steel construction covered with red brick strips and tiles,” Gizmodo says. “The windows are made of laminated glass with white wi…

Graffiti Cushions – Stash Spray Can Pillows

(TrendHunter.com) These are spray can pillows which were originally put on display during the “Tools of the Trade” Art Exhibition at the Bape Gallery in 2002. It wasn’t until very recently that they were put out for sale by Stash, a famous New York-based street artist.

The soft spray can replica pillows, which …

Concrete Art – Transparent House (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Furniture is getting more sculptural and patterned motifs are present on the most unexpected materials and surfaces. Concrete Art is a good example. San Francisco-based 3D and visualization studio Transparent House presents its artistic vision for concrete, a classic flooring material.

They have c…

Animated Retooning – Turning People Into Humanized Cartoons (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Trend Hunter community has been fascinated by what’s being referred to as “untooning.” The new graphic art form strips famous pop culture characters of their “cartoon” characteristics and transforms them into what artists imagine they would look in the flesh. This process gets to the …

Jewellery Made of Real Tentacles – OctopusME! (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) OctopusME! is releasing a line of jewellery made of, you guessed it, octopus. The line uses sushi-grade octopus with solid sterling silver.

Some cultures see the octopus as a symbol of transformation and regeneration. Because of their ability to change color to match their backgrounds, octopus are…

Secret Drawer Cubes – Fractal 23

(TrendHunter.com) Takeshi Miyakawa’s unique Fractal 23 design utilizes each and every inch of a cube by having a whopping 23 functional drawers. Suddenly that abstract and minimalistic-looking cube becomes much more exciting!

There are drawers on each side, which means you have to give it enough space if you want f…

Accessories To Glamorize Smoking – Mobile Ashtrays (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mobile ashtrays are ideal for the female smoker on the go who is conscientious about the environment… although she may not care about her lungs. This could well become the must-have of the year for the stressed out, chain smoking fashionista.

Designed by Keitai Hazara, the mobile ashtray comes …

Top 37 Nerdy Fashions – Geek Chic (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s time to face reality: geek has become chic. Being computer savvy is no longer just for nerdy computer lab dwelling geeks, it’s a must for anyone who will see success in the wired future of tomorrow.

People are celebrating their geekiness in a variety of words, from geek chic apparel to ul…

Horror Fashion – Freddy Krueger Nike Sneakers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Freddy Krueger, from the Nightmare on Elm Street film series, is my favorite boogyman, so to see a pair of Nike sneakers made in his honor just fills me with the obligatory fright.

The blood-spattered kicks are decorated with the pattern on Freddy’s ubiquitous red and black horizontal-striped sw…

Peel & Stick Solar Panels – Lumeta PowerPly (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Things are looking much greener at the solar energy front these days. After recently reporting on inflatable solar panels, we bring you another efficient and cost effective solar power innovation that will make opting for a solar roof a viable and more convenient option.

The key innovation in the L…

1,800 Nude People as Art – Spencer Tunick Euro 2008 Installation (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) About 1,800 people went fully nude for American photographer Spencer Tunick, who is well known for regularly staging such mass nude events, at the stadium that will host the Euro 2008 soccer final.

On his website Tunick said, “This very special ephemeral installation that we are inviting you to be…

Magic Meets Acrobatics – Cirque du Soleil ‘Believe’ to Star ‘Criss Angel’ (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Criss Angel, the young rock magician and escape artist, is collaborating with Cirque du Soleil to launch Believe, a new Las Vegas show at the Luxor Hotel and Casino.

The teaser for the much-anticipated show has finally been launched, and can be seen above.

The show kicks off in about five months…

Urban Art & Music Flights – Vueling by MTV (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) EasyJet was probably the first airline to use its aircrafts as giant brand billboards, and now it seems aerial advertising is starting to hit the skies hard. We have already seen Armani and Versace transform ordinary aircrafts into superb pieces of design, now MTV is taking off with the idea too.

V…

Burning Inhumane Images – Amnesty International Picture Campaign (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Recently, Amnesty International has been extremely active in producing intense and thought-provoking campaigns. The latest addition is “Picture” which was inspired by infamous Abu Ghraib images of prisoners being tortured and ridiculed.

The campaign ingeniously uses the logo of Amnesty Internationa…