Experiment With Your Wall Lighting – New Wired Wallpaper

(TrendHunter.com) I always like to rearrange the furniture placement and decor of my place to give it a fresh feel. However, adding or moving a wall light is a complex and expensive affair, since the wiring has to be embedded beneath the surface of the wall. Now, a wallpaper with conducting strips running through it…

No More Needles – Philips Develops Breath Test for Diabetics

(TrendHunter.com) In great news for diabetics, who currently have to take a sample of their blood to measure their glucose levels; a new non-invasive test that is safer and more convenient is being developed by consumer electronics company Philips. The non-invasive blood glucose meter simply monitors the concentratio…

Drugs On Demand – MIT Develops Implantable Remotely Activated “Micro-Pharmacy”

(TrendHunter.com) One of the major challenges when developing new drugs is how to apply them only where and when they are needed. MIT researchers have developed a new film technology that could address some of that challenge. According to MIT News, “The films are made from alternating layers of two materials: a neg…

A Little Closer To Mainstream 3-D

(TrendHunter.com) Star Wars put the idea of a 3-D, holographic video into the minds of an entire generation – remember, Princess Leia pleading, “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” We’ve come a long way in acheiving that technology. Scientists from the University of Arizona recently developed “rewritable” h…

Virtual Reality Frog Dissection Software – V-Frog (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Liked the idea of biology lessons but just could not get to grips with the frog dissection part of it, well computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have come up with the world’s first virtual reality frog dissection software. Now you can avoid all the moral and ethical questions live dissec…

“Back To The Future” For Real? – Russian Mathemeticians Say It May Be Possible

(TrendHunter.com) Nuclear scientists at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) are planning an experiment that could make that a possibility, according to Irina Aref’eva and Igor Volovich, of Moscow’s Steklov Mathematical Institute. CERN’s high energy atom-smashing tests could “create a rift in the fabric…

Taser’s Get A Facelift – Taser Shotguns (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve seen a lot of innovation in the past year when it comes to personal protection, especially with regard to tasers.

Taser International is at it again and this time they are sporting a big pair for law enforcement. When you combined two of the most powerful, immobilizing weapons, the shotgun…

Ultra-Green Office Building – Hidden Eco-Friendly Corporate HQ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The perfect excuse for being late for work has inadvertently been created by the architect and interior design team at the Penson Group. This proposed headquarter, called the Vestry, of a major UK company comes with a layer of green grass that disguises it from view. The layer of grass and hedges on…

Charge Batteries While You Walk – Knee Brace Dynamo (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) US and Canadian scientists have created a unique and useful device that will use your body movements while walking to charge up your batteries for a whole host of gadgets. As a human dynamo you will effortlessly produce enough energy to power up your mobile for 30 minutes form just one minute walkin…

Eco Scientists Devise New Propulsion – Sea Glider Powered by Water’s Heat

(TrendHunter.com) While President Bush says it’s OK for the Navy to kill whales during testing, researchers have launched an awesome sea glider that uses heat from the energy to propel itself. The glider has proven itself by criss crossing the Virgin Island Basin more than 20 times since December. It could keep going…

Tattoo Vaccine – More Effective Than Traditional Shot

(TrendHunter.com) Forget about going to the doctor for a shot, locate your nearest tattoo parlor because researchers in Germany have observed that a greater amount of antibodies are produced when a rapidly vibrating tattoo instrument delivers vaccinations into a patient’s body.

Over the past 100 years, tattoos have…

Implant Restores Sight to the Blind – Artificial Cornea

(TrendHunter.com) Technological advancements have allowed researches from Frauhofer Institute in Germany to produce an aesthetic cornea that may give hope to the blind. The Cornea is carefully layered with a special protein that latches to the natural cornea after implantation.

These sight-saving implants have been…

“Real” Perpetual Motion Machine – Perepiteia (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Thane Heins is careful never not to claim that his Perepiteia is a perpetual motion machine, yet it accelerates from exposure to a permanent magnet, and that’s not supposed to happen.

Scientists from top universities (University of Virginia, Michigan State University, the University of Toronto a…

See-Through Fish Created for Cancer Study – Transparent Zebrafish

(TrendHunter.com) Scientists have created a see-through Zebrafish to help conduct research on how cancer spreads inside an organism. The entire fish is see-through, from bones to organs making it possible for the first time to study the disease without dissection.

It was engineered at the Children’s Hospital, Bos…

Tear Free Onion Created – Dry Your Eyes

(TrendHunter.com) Scientists have discovered how to create an onion that will be “tear-free” ending whole eye watering fiasco when cooking with them. They used biotechnology to switch off the gene that makes our eyes sting, and therefore water.

The success of the New Zealand and Japanese is being widely celebrated a…

Take Your Medication Via Tooth Implant – IntelliDrug

(TrendHunter.com) The conventional method of taking prescription drugs is to take them manually, but that can sometimes lead to forgetfulness. With the IntelliDrug, however, you would never forget to take your meds again.

IntelliDrug is a device only two molar widths in size, made up of stainless steel and polymers,…

Hi-Tech Band-Aid – The Sensium

(TrendHunter.com) How could you make a bandage complex? Add a wireless chip that can wire your vitals to your doctor, of course! Start-up company, Toumaz Technology, has created a band-aid called The Sensium with an embedded sensor can take an ECG, three axis- accelerometer, blood glucose reading, ph-level, and blood…

Furniture Can Change Your Thoughts – Mind Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Mind Chair is the creation of London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank and is an amazing chair that utilizes sensory substitution technology developed in the 1960s to send and display high-definition moving imagery into the mind of the person seated in it. The design uses a standard plastic…

Scientific Threesome – 3 Parent Embryo Could Cure Genetic Diseases

(TrendHunter.com) Earlier this week we reported lesbians can now have babies after a discovery was made men may no longer be needed for reproduction, but for those who do want some male action in the baby creation process, another new discovery was made this week.

Fancy a threesome? Scientists have been able to cre…

Helmet May Reverse Dementia – Scientific Research on Memory

(TrendHunter.com) Alzheimer’s disease is an insidious disease that kills hundreds of thousands and causes untold pain for the family. This helmet can help reverse the symptoms with as little as ten minutes per day. Infra-red light causes the brain to create more cells.

“The study at Sunderland found that exposing mi…