Graphic Anti-Smoking Ads – ‘Til Death Do Us Part

(TrendHunter.com) This print campaign consists of two complimentary images; one of a female smoker, the other of a male. The ads are aptly named, ‘Til Death Do Us Part.

One HDR-style image features a female sitting in a blood red armchair smoking a cigarette, as death creeps in the shadows behind her, lurking mere …

Anti-Scar Bandage – Memory Polymers Preserve Your Beauty

(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…

Oral Pressure Washers – Philips Spraying Toothbrush

(TrendHunter.com) The next home dental hygiene tool to enter the consumer market could well be high pressure tooth spray. Sonic toothbrushes, while relatively effective, can’t reach tough spots. Water picks, well, just pick at things. The idea of adapting high pressure hoses used to clean houses and cars to cleanin…

Super Turbines – Sky Serpent (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Doug Selsam’s turbine ideas are not just blowing in the wind; they are transforming the wind into power-generating machines. At a cost of $250,000 to develop, the 25-rotor turbine ‘Sky Serpent’ is said to produce three kilowatts (3000 watts) of power. The Sky Serpent is still in the concept st…

Space Produce – Mega Veggies Could End World Hunger (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I wonder if these things have Air Miles? Mega Veggies are grown from seeds that were fired into space, where for two weeks, they orbited the Earth. Once returned, the seeds are cultivated in hothouses and the final product is the HUGE specimens seen in these photos.

Mega Veggies are a product of th…

Painless Injections- Dissolving Hypodermic Needles

(TrendHunter.com) Sacred of needles? Many people are. It hurts because the needles are not fine enough, and up until now, it was impossible to make very fine ones. Scientist Hyung Il Jung from Yonsei University in Seoul Korea has recently filed a patent for the manufacture of an small array of microneedles designed …

Protecting Polar Bears – Officially Listed As Endangered (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Polar Bears are officially on the global list of animals to be protected. As global warming continues, their natural habitats are threatened as global sea ice melts and their ability to survive is threatened. If nothing is done, the great white bears will face extinction.

Thankfully an initiative b…

Anti-Jetlag Glasses – Re-Set Your Body’s Clock on the Fly (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you travel across different timezones, you know how it feels to be jetlagged. You become sleepy, moody, can’t concentrate and you have a hard time staying awake in the day, and can’t fall sleep at night. The Re-Time Jetlag Glasses solve this problem.

The glasses will adjust your body’s natural …

Insect Repelling Clothes – Buzz Off

(TrendHunter.com) Spot Cool Stuff found a line of clothing, aptly named Buzz Off, that contains Permethrin, a man-made version of a natural insect repellent, woven into the fibers.

Made by Ex Officio, the repellent properties work on mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and flies and lasts for about 70 washes. It also provide…

ID Via Wrinkle Detection – Japanese Cigarette Vending (UPDATE)

(TrendHunter.com) Japan has vending machines that dispense cigarettes, and just like similar machines in Europe, they provoke issues with underage children buying tobacco. To help prevent access to cigarettes by minors, Japan has come up with a new sensory technology that is meant to detect the age of the buyer by me…

Sign Language Translators – HandTalk Glove (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The sassy term, “talk to the hand” takes on a whole new meaning with HandTalk, a sensor equipped glove that translates finger and hand gestures into spoken words on a cell phone.

The motivation behind HandGlove, a project by engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University, was to enable easy com…

Medical Nanotechnology Breakthroughs – Nanohealing Material Stops Bleeding

(TrendHunter.com) Vampires are so gonna be pissed off at a startup called Arch Therapeutics which has licensed nanostructured material technology that instantly stops bleeding from MIT. When poured over a site, the material will stop the bleeding almost at once. Arch Therapeutics is currently developing manufacturin…

Lunar Real Estate – Can Corporations Claim Lunar Property?

(TrendHunter.com) Recent discussions of property rights n the moon has pointed out an interesting point – that the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 makes it legal for corporations to claim lunar property.

Companies could therefore stick their proverbial flag in the moon dust to mark it as their own.

Talk about an incre…

Invisibility Paints – AR 1 Camouflages Radar

(TrendHunter.com) There is a man who has been contacted by the Iraqis, the Chinese, and several other world powers. Why? The German inventor, Werner Nickel, has developed a paint that can make whatever it coats invisible – at least to radar.

Located somewhere in the United Arab Emirates deserts, Nickel somehow inve…

Invisibility Paint – AR 1 Camouflages Radar

(TrendHunter.com) There is a man who has been contacted by the Iraqis, the Chinese, and several other world powers. Why? The German inventor, Werner Nickel, has developed a paint that can make whatever it coats invisible – at least to radar.

Located somewhere in the United Arab Emirates deserts, Nickel somehow inve…

Hygienic Shockvertising II – Carre Fresh: Wipe Whatever You’ve Touched (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) My favorite TrendHunter, Lourdes recently shared a truly disgusting and troubling (for anyone with insect phobia) campaign with us that illustrated the importance of hand sanitizers through the use of insects. These new print ads for Carre Fresh follow a similarly disgusting, but less creepy formula…

Teach Fish Tricks – R2 Fish School (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) I am a great believer in education, but sometimes I question whether it is necessary to teach skills to creatures other than humans. Dogs are trained to find drugs or chase criminals, so I guess that’s fine, but goldfish? Now, thats a stretch….

The R2 Fishschool provides a training kit that is fa…

Drawing With Mosquitos – Malaria Kills More Than Hitler, Stalin, Tanks & Bombs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I am in awe of this new Malaria awareness campaign by África Directo. The message that “Nothing and no one takes as many lives as malaria” is ingeniously delivered by drawing portraits of infamous dictators such as Stalin and Hitler, who have the blood of millions on their hands, using hundreds of …

Termite-Inspired Mega Buildings – Ultima Tower

(TrendHunter.com) With a one mile wide base and a staggering two mile high rooftop, the Ultima Tower by Eugene Tsui is inspired by nature: the elegant termite mound. It is aerodynamically efficient, resistant to earthquake shock waves, and is cooled by flowing water.

OK, so let’s put aside the fact that if the Eart…

Biodegradable Beds – Essentia Eco Luxury Mattresses

(TrendHunter.com) These luxury eco mattresses make Tempur seem like a Barbie doll bed.

So what is about Essentia that is making the competition quake in their boots? They created a luxurious, eco-friendly, natural memory foam. Before Essentia, every memory foam was synthetic therefore would trap heat in and stunk to…