Tights That Fight Cellulite – Are Scala Bio-Fir Leggings a New Tool in the Battle of the Bulge? (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These Scala Bio-Fir leggings are hailed as the latest tool for a woman’s arsenal in the battle of the bulge: tights that fight cellulite. While these leggings, which were developed with retailer John Lewis,…

Sex Robots – David Levy Says Artificial Intelligence Coming Soon (In Bed) (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sex robots seem like something straight out of sci-fi, but AI scientist David Levy says they could be coming soon to a bed near you. “Real Dolls” and, well, blow-up dolls have been around for a long time,…

Airless Army Tires – Resilient Technologies Develops Non-Pneumatic Gadgets (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Resilient Technologies, a Wisconsin-based company, has developed the non-pneumatic or airless tire (NPT) as part of a four-year, $18 million project with the U.S. Department of Defense and the University…

Futuristic Food Probes – Philips Design Food Concepts are the Future of Nourishment (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The new conceptual designs by Phillips Design are the future of food. With the Phillips Design food concepts, we’ll be able to change foods into different shapes and consistencies, scan them for nutritional…

Remixing Nature – Bobby Neel Adams Uses Photoshop to Turn Trees Into Transformers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Bobby Neel Adams’ ‘Re-Skinning Nature’ project effectively remixes Mother Nature’s creations by turning tree trunks into Transformer-like structures that have corrugated tin, copper and laminated centers.…

Implausibly Photoshopped Photos – Jan Oliehoek Makes the Impossible Look Realistic (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you have waited your whole life to witness a zebra frog cross-breed, your waiting is over thanks to an amazing photo manipulator named Jan Oliehoek. Not a stranger to the realm of Photoshop, Oliehoek…

Celeb Lookalike Sperm Donors – CCB Donor Helps You Make Your Own Celebribabies (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Want your baby to look like your favorite celebrity? From Conan O’Brien to Kurt Cobain and the Jonas Brothers, CCB Donor Look-a-Likes is for you.

The organization classifies sperm donors by what celebrities…

Freaky Foot Sites – ‘Missing Toes’ Honors Digit Amputees (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This post is almost way too random even for Cowbag–it centers on Missing Toes, a community that gets its kicks out of pictures of amputated feet. Unlike the TMZ competition for ugly feet below, it is…

Ecosystem Showers – Jun Yasumoto’s Phyto-Purification Bathroom Filters Recycles Water (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Jun Yasumoto’s Phyto-Purification Bathroom is a conceptual system that turns your shower into a mini-ecosystem. The design is a clever take on the water-saving conundrum that relies on plants to do its…

Conductive Body Paint – ‘Music Box’ Dancer Creates a Tune with ‘Bare’ Ink (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Bare is an innovative body paint which allows small amounts of electricity to transfer though it to create all kinds of fun stuff. That’s my technical lingo.

The paint is non-metallic, yet conductive.…

Male Face Transplants – James Maki is First Man to Receive a New Face (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The first male to receive a face transplant, James Maki, revealed his new appearance yesterday. James Maki received the radical procedure on April 9th, years after his accident.

The surgery took place…

Scientific Success Stories – Connie Culp Shares Her Face Transplant Tale With Laughter (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Connie Culp is the first person in the United States to get a full face transplant.  This 46-year old woman is truly an inspiration to us all; as seen in the above video, she still has an optimistic outlook…

Futuristic Body Mods – Sci-Fi Suspension Play Transplanted Body Parts (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The images in this gallery come from a really interesting article on future body modifications, a field which is moving forward at great speed.

Ears implanted onto arms, suspension play (in which you…

Superfluous Virus Prevention – Macabre Surgical Masks to Fend Off H1N1, aka Swine Flu (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The term ‘swine flu’ is no more. The USDA says that since pigs can’t get swine flu, U.S. citizens should refer to the disease that will kill you as ‘H1N1,’ not ‘swine flu.’ Either way, people are taking…

Robotic Exoskeletons – ‘Wearable Agrirobot’ Power Suit Helps Farm Harvest Pruning (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit tailored to the 40% of Japan’s farm workers who are over the age of 65.

Shigeki Toyama, a professor in robotics…

Virtual Foreplay – Mutsugoto Enables Long-Distance Intimacy Via Digital Rings (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Mutsugoto is interactive foreplay via intimate communications by long distance. You communicate through the language of movement and imagination.

You’re there, your lover is elsewhere. You wish you were…

Live Birthing Simulators – Models Which Give Birth (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) OK so it is medical and natural, but this birthing simulator model freaks me out a little… Check out the video at your peril.

Apparently this is the new way to teach midwives and obstetricians and is…

Drug Induced Makeovers – Celeb Zombies Made from Methamphetamines (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The slide show is real, these are zombies made from using too much methamphetamine. Check out the video to see celebs photoshopped to look as if they had indulged in too many doses of Kentucky’s favorite…

Wind-Powered Speedsters – The Greenbird Breaks the Land Speed Record at 126.1 MPH (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) ‘Greenbird,’ a carbon fiber composite vehicle that uses nothing but wind for power, has broken the world land speed record for wind-powered vehicles. After 10 years of hard work, British engineer Richard…

Accidental Amputations – Man’s Penis Amputated by Mistake

(TrendHunter.com) Oops, what a mistake to make. Ib Jorgensen, a 42-year-old Dane and a father of two, had a sore penis a couple of years back and went to see a doctor at his local hospital in Odense.

The doctors diagnosed…