(TrendHunter.com) To take a common devise such as an umbrella and turn it into an agent for living a healthier life and protecting the environment is quite a feat in my mind. The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen is a sp…
(TrendHunter.com) Along the A44 highway, between Amsterdam and The Hague, sits a giant, human-shaped building. It is the home of Corpus, a tactile interactive museum experience that takes visitors through the spaces in…
(TrendHunter.com) 16-year-old Waterloo, Ontario high school junior Daniel Burd wanted to speed up the decomposition of plastic, a process that was estimated to take thousands of years, if not more. Guess what? He succe…
(TrendHunter.com) If you are watching your caloric intake but want to indulge in an “informed” guilty pleasure, I have the perfect chocolate for you. “Rompicollo” by L’Agenzia per il Disegno e la Funzione is a tablet…
(TrendHunter.com) Designer Dasha Anokhina came up with REMY, a biometric ‘friend’ that tracks and records sleep patterns and activities, allowing you to wake up to a summary of what you did during the night.
Before y…
(TrendHunter.com) We’ve told you about luxury pet cloning services in Asia, but now a California based biotech startup, BioArts International, has launched the Best Friends Again Program, a commercial dog cloning progr…
(TrendHunter.com) Cyberslacking, a term Trend Hunter was introduced to a few months ago, has become a worldwide business issue that’s lead to “e-break†bans in corporations around the world. This act of limiting …
(TrendHunter.com) Southern California residents are gearing up for an earthquake in the likes of the recent devastating tremor in China. A new report released from the US Geological Survey and the California Geological…
(TrendHunter.com) A tiny little grasshopper inspired robot can jump 27 times its own body length; that’s ten times farther than any other jumping robot. Scientists hope the little leaper will be able to aid in chemical…
(TrendHunter.com) Completion of a 100 year old engineering project finally happened a few days ago. The tunnel between New York and London, called the Telectroscope, allows residents of both cities to peer down the gia…
(TrendHunter.com) The Czeers MK1, a solar powered speedboat, is the world’s first of its kind. The ten meter, 20-knot boat is a zero emission, 100% carbon fibre speedster covered in photovoltaic cells, from the top of …
(TrendHunter.com) Now here would be an easy way to lose weight: just stand on vibrating scales. Scientists at State University of New York in Stony Brook have apparently discovered that slight vibrations will prevent f…
(TrendHunter.com) This anti-radiation bustier was one of the featured items at the Beauty World Japan exhibition taking place in Tokyo this week. The La-La is a tourmaline-embedded bra/girdle whose purpose is to neutralize harmful radiation emissions from cell phones and improve a woman’s bad moods (PMS-related?) b…
(TrendHunter.com) You’ve heard of mood rings? Philips, the electronic company, has filed a patent for a mood pen which can record your emotional state as you write. The sensors in the pen’s shaft monitors your heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and pressure. The pen is able to change inks and the shape of t…
(TrendHunter.com) The world’s first cancer sniffing dog is set to save more lives. The black Labrador known as Marine is to be cloned in South Korea at the end of this month.
Marine was first trained to sniff human cancer cells in the St. Sugar Cancer Sniffing Dog Training Centre, Japan. Unfortunately, Marine c…
(TrendHunter.com) The Haptica is a very attractive braille wrist watch for the visually-challenged. The contours of the case are meant to provide an ergonomic, yet intuitive and efficient interface. The dials are protruding circles with a Braille dot located on the outer edge of the top side of the timepiece and the …
(TrendHunter.com) Piezoelectric materials (crystals like quartz) can be used inside microphones and speakers in order to convert incoming electricity to sound, but they are brittle and bulky. Material scientist, Michael Yu, at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has found and patented a way to make piezoelectric de…
(TrendHunter.com) An giant, white cardboard kangaroo is posing in Melbourne for a space-based photo shoot. Specifically, the 105 foot (32-metre) image of Australia’s national animal is being used in a study on global warming to measure the Albedo effect, or what happens to the sunlight reflected off the Earth.
When…
(TrendHunter.com) University of Pennsylvania scientists working with PolyMedix are developing a new drug which can be incorporated into polymers to kill bacterial cells on contact. The drug will not enter the cells, but will mimic how our own bodies attack bacteria, by punching holes in their outer coverings so they …
(TrendHunter.com) Stanford University scientists have now developed and patented special bandages to prevent the stretching and raising of scars. They are made from special “memory†polymers which remember their shape once applied. Very strong adhesives or sewing and stapling during surgery have to be used to ke…
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