(TrendHunter.com) It’s a geezer phone! Clarity, a company that makes stuff so older people can communicate better, introduced the ClarityLife, a new easier to use cell phone. It’s a simple phone with a large display and prominent buttons. Sound is amplified, and it features a one button emergency response feature.
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(TrendHunter.com) Embracing your inner carnivore? Check out the pig tattoo, severed arm holding the bottle. From Beef Jerky to Teriyaki Chicken to Wiener Schnitzel — yes, Wiener Schnitzel ewwww and it’s pink — dinner in a bottle or MEATwater is suppose to be be a high efficiency survival beverage. You know, I like …
(TrendHunter.com) Learning to be a dentist isn’t easy, but with the help of technological advances like the PerioSim 3D dental simulator, training becomes much more efficient for students.
Directly on the screen, students use a stylus which looks like an “explorer,” the scary-looking, pointy device dentists use to …
(TrendHunter.com) Acceptance of the “third sex” in Thailand just took a hit from the health officials. Hospitals and clinics are prevented from removing the family jewels to make “ladyboys” or “katoey.” Many docs are doing the surgery outside of formal sex-change operations because its quick and easy. Some clinics ch…
(TrendHunter.com) If you don’t mind looking like the Hunchback of Notredom, this Airo messaging backpack will provide you a relaxing massage without having to beg someone for it.
Now that I think about it, having someone walking behind you rubbing your shoulders might not be a good look either.
If my little German …
(TrendHunter.com) The compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach are internationally well known, but what he looked like physically isn’t.
Although he only sat for one portrait his entire life, images of the composer are plentiful as are nicely sculptured busts.
Anthropologist Caroline Wilkinson used state-of-the-art c…
(TrendHunter.com) This keyboard was inspired by a snail and is based around a one-handed design (kind of strange considering snails don’t have hands at all). The concept utilizes a rotating keywheel that spins at a 5:1 ratio (this means the keywheel moves 5 times the distance of the sideways movement of the mouse). H…
(TrendHunter.com) In the future, everything could become a touch-sensitive interface, but it wouldn’t be the object itself that was picking up the movement, it would be a system integrated into each finger, specifically under the nail. It wouldn’t cost much either, all you need s a basic web cam and computer.
This w…
(TrendHunter.com) Who, besides the British who have their tea, is able to start the work day without that much-needed shot of caffeine? That being said, who has time to brew a nice fresh cup of coffee?
In recent years, the US consumer market for on-the-go coffee exploded. Most beverage manufacturers hastily introdu…
(TrendHunter.com) A Hawaii man with a background in nuclear physics is asking a court to stop scientists before they destroy us all. Walter F. Wagner and his colleague Luis Sancho really have filed a federal lawsuit, which you can read on the link, in order to stop work on the Large Hadron Collider, on the Franco-Swi…
(TrendHunter.com) There are persistent rumors that a tunnel is being planned that will link Alaska with the Chutoka region of Russia. “The drill will be built by Germany’s Herrenknecht AG and it will the first drill capable of boring a four-lane tunnel through the 55-mile wide Bering Strait” says newlaunches.com.
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(TrendHunter.com) It may be just a concept right now, but the cell phone defibrillator would feature electrodes in the buttons that would jolt the heart back to a regular beat when pressed to the someone’s chest. It would also contain a heart monitor for identifying problems and GPS tracking once the defibrillator is…
(TrendHunter.com) As companies outgrow their original spaces, they find themselves needing temporary offices in a hurry. Dutch designer Jack Brandsma has a unique and attractive solution he will be showing at the design show next month in Milan. Any vacant building can be an office in 24 hours, and then gone just as …
(TrendHunter.com) Phone fitness is a new workout program to be download and stored on your mobile phone. PumpOne’s Pumped for Summer 2008 is a line of simple workouts to cover strength to Pilates to yoga to flexibility. The programs demonstrate start and end positions and which muscles you will be working one.
(TrendHunter.com) The University of Plymouth is leading a consortium in the UK with the goal of teaching a “baby” robot to speak. The researchers will be working with language development specialists to understand how humans learn speech, and will try to apply that approach to a humanoid robot called the iCub (which,…
(TrendHunter.com) We know the wonders oxygen can do for our health, from sharpening our minds to reviving injured muscles. It only makes sense that it would do the same for all living creatures, including our four legged friends! Making sure no mutt gets left behind, the Japanese have invented the O2 Doghouse.
Funct…
(TrendHunter.com) Opening the door for a generation of flexible electronic devices, the world’s first “completely integrated, extremely bendable circuits” were developed and demonstrated by a research team led by John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The flexible stretchy silicon circuits …
(TrendHunter.com) Lunar Energy, a British tidal power company, and Korean Midland Power Company have joined forces to develop the world’s largest tidal power project in the Wando Hoenggan waterway.
Each of the huge 1 MW turbines that will be used for that project will be 15 meters in diameter and over 19 meters lon…
(TrendHunter.com) On Saturday, March 29th, from 8:00 to 9:00 pm, millions of people world-wide will be celebrating Earth Hour.
Participants will shut off lights and TVs, and go dark for the event, which is in support of improving our natural environment.
In the U.S., dozens of major cities from the Golden Gate Br…
(TrendHunter.com) InnovaTek, a Washington based company, has recently developed a microreactor that can convert almost any liquid fuel to hydrogen. According to gas2.org, the device can accept a wide range of fuels, including “gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, biodiesel, propane, natural gas, even the glycerol byprod…
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