Retro Magazine Purses – Momaboma’s Paper Vintage Bags (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Momaboma is an Italian company that creates really beautiful, retro, vintage bags. The bags are made out of paper from recycled glam magazines from the 1950’s and 1960’s and other material such as old vinyl records. The carefully-chosen paper is then processed with resin, polypropylene, vinyl and gl…

Firefighting Robots – OLE Insect Firefighter (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The OLE robot is a product of the industrial-design studio at the University of Magdeburg-Stendal in Germany. The OLE, which is autonomous and is guided by GPS, intelligent feelers, infrared and heat sensors, is equipped with tanks of water and powdered fire-extinguishing agents.

The armor of this …

Metaphorical Fish Tanks – Infinity Aquarium Symbolizes Life (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Treat your fishes to an über artistic hangout with the Infinity Aquarium which is part of the Forever! Series by BCXSY.

The motivation behind the Forever! series is to slow down and take a closer look at what it means to last FOREVER in this era of mass production and haste.

The hand-crafted glas…

Glowing Walls 2 – OLED Wallpaper from GE

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen wallpaper that emits lights before, but it wasn’t as captivating as the OLED wallpaper by General Electric! This opens up a whole new level of modern design, and by the looks of it, these stick on lights wouldn’t be restricted to the walls, but could be applied to any flat surface, like a…

Fashionable Interiors – Karim Rashid Vesna Store (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) One of my favorite designers, Karim Rashid, has designed a unique, out-of-this world interior for the Vesna youth store in Moscow.

The Egyptian designer created artistic shelves, customised wallpaper, racks, and counters with round curves and bright colours to house the over 45,000 items for sale …

Moustache Key Hook – Stache Your Kids in Style

(TrendHunter.com) Key hooks can be a bit tacky, but when they’ve got a hip design like this giant black Moustache key rack, it would be hard to describe it as anything but fabtackulous!

“This fancy mustache key hook is solid pine with brass hooks and is 18 inches x about 4.5 inches,” Etsy says.

It comes in matte b…

XXXL Earbuds – For People With Huge Ears (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Earbuds for the giants? These oversized earbud speakers are 50X the original size of the normal earbuds. They can be hooked onto your computer, MP3 or CD player and come with audio and a USB cable.

The buds require 3 AAA batteries to power the incredible boom they can produce.

Warning: Do not us…

Fake Jungle Dining – New Restaurant Tropical Rain Forest Theme (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) New Restaurant is a Swedish restaurant that is really, really determined to go green. This is like the European version of the North American Rain Forest Cafe.

Architectural firm Olssonlyckefors has created a jungle-like atmosphere complete with cascading walls of foliage, giving the New Restauran…

DIY Graffiti Keyboards – Custom K3YB04RD

(TrendHunter.com) Who says you have to shell out hundreds of dollars on an Optimus Maximus keyboard to have a colorful unique one?

Any plain keyboard coupled with a mix of marker pens, paint, stickers, assorted decor and a bit of creativity will result in a unique customized hip keyboard with character and style.

C…

Olympic Video Games – Sega Beijing 2008 Olympics (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sega is getting into the summer Games action by featuring Olympic athletes in upcoming video games. The new Beijing 2008 Olympics video game which drops on June 24th, simulates over 35 Olympic competitions and some of them feature USA medal hopefuls Amanda Beard, Tyson Gay, Nastia Liukin and Reese H…

Bicycle Handcuffs – Masterlock Street Cuffs

(TrendHunter.com) Locking up your bicycle with style just got better and a lot smarter. The Street Cuffs from Master lock ensure nobody runs away with your trendy two wheeler as the lock doesn’t provide a point of leverage for the thief.

It provides virtually no space for jacks and the heavy gauge steel provides ma…

Solar Tables 2 – Lounge Table by Intelligent Forms Design (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This stainless steel lounge table from Intelligent Forms Design combines tech with eco0friendly luxury and is a true conversation piece. It has built-in Bluetooth and allows you to hook up your MP3 player or recharge your laptop or cellphone while getting a sun tan.

With the tempered glass silicon…

Total Design White Out – Porsche Design Goes Bright White (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Porsche Design Studios has long been designing objects inspired by the Porsche automobile, a god in terms of luxury car brands.

Breaking from the traditional use of black for the first time in 30 years, Porsche Design is presenting a collection entirely in white. Porsche Design Studios design objec…

Food-Inspired Footwear – Waffle Cone Ice Cream Sneakers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The BBC recently released “Waffle Cone” Ice Creams. The kicks come in three flavors: strawberry (left), banana (right), and blueberry (after jump).

Unlike the Boardflips, these Ice Creams will be a harder and more expensive find with a retail of $195. The shoes are constructed in Japan with co…

Tranformer Lighting – IQ Light Has 21 Different Looks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The IQ Light lighting system is based on single interlocking module and choice of assembly pattern. It can be formed to more than 21 different lampshade designs. You can even create your own!

The kit contains 30 modules and is available in five different sizes, modules range in diameter from 12 to …

Pencil Sketch Furniture – Front Studio Shade Project (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This year’s Milan furniture fair has produced really beautiful work by different design studies, including Front Design Studio. The Swedish company exhibited their “Shade” project at Spazio Rossana Orlandi using standard silhouettes of household items to produce really beautiful paper shading. E…

Ornamental Body Parts – Human Orifice Jewelry (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Taiwanese designer Yuyen Chang makes jewelry that mimics human anatomy. Her “Orifice” collection includes pins, pendants, and rings made with flesh color material and metal and shaped to represent the various shapes and openings of the human body.

The attractive “Orifice” jewelry collection is dec…

Top 100 Solar Inventions – Part 2: Architecture & Power Plants (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The power of the sun is incredible, and with Earth Day coming up, we thought we’d highlight some of the top innovations in solar technology. This is part two of the solar cluster, featuring 30 solar powered communities, cities, individual pieces of architecture and other larger scale inventions.

I…

You as Medieval Art – Old-Fashioned Portraits by Eyeworks (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The middle ages have had a strong influence on fashion lately, with a lot of collection bearing medieval themes. However, the movement has gone beyond the catwalk and into the home. You can now have a giant, custom Medieval Portrait created for your living room.

Eyeworks Photography is offering hi…

Top 17 OLEDs – Organic Light Emitting Diodes (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you don’t know what an OLED is by now, we’re here to help, because it’s time you informed yourself. It stands for Organic Light-Emitting Diode, and it’s one of the biggest up and coming technologies. You may also have heard it refered to as a Light Emitting Polymer (LEP) or Organic Electro-Lumine…