Aquaduct – Bike Your Way to Clean Water (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This innovative bike was the winning submission in the Innovate or Die competition. This unique invention is a tricycle with a built in water filtration system. At the back it has a large water container for unpure water. When you start riding the bike you pump the water from that container through …

Live Broadcasting for the Masses – blogTV

(TrendHunter.com) blogTV offers live broadcasting for the masses, perhaps one of the next big trends to hit the net. Launched in late 2007, this site set out with one main goal: empower consumers to broadcast their life. Six months later, the site boasts 5,000 original shows with 700 new shows being added each day. E…

Tweenebe – Parents Inspired by the Carefree Life of Tweens

(TrendHunter.com) Simply put, a tweenebe is a parent or adult who is inspired to live the carefree life of a tween. Tweenebe’s are popping up everywhere! They’re the parents who want to see High School Musical on ice, the ones who actually want to see Hannah Montana live. These parents actually ENJOY the same things …

Monitor as a Docking Station – Apple’s New Patent

(TrendHunter.com) US Patent Office registered a new Patent to Apple. It refers to a docking station in which a laptop can be embedded into the monitor / desktop. The two are connected through wi-fi and Bluetooth.

According to the patent, this docking station shall hold one or more of the following: a camera, a spe…

Special Drugs For Gamers – FPSBrain

(TrendHunter.com) I’m not even sure what to say about this. According to the makers of FpsBrain, a new energy pill, “Electronic sports is becoming more and more professional.” That being said, they though it made sense to pay more attention to the hardcore gamer by forcing their sleep-deprived bodies to continue to w…

Cartoons on Toast – Pa, Panda Toast by Sega Toys

(TrendHunter.com) Start your day with a giggle, even before you’ve had a shot of caffeine: turn ordinary pieces of toast into crisp little panda heads.

While I’m not sure I could bring myself to bite off those cuddly ears, Sega Toys’ Pa, Panda Toast is much more clever than, and should not be confused with, the…

Scientific Zen – Sandpendal Draws With Earth’s Rotation

(TrendHunter.com) The Sandpendel is a unique creation which uses science and design to create a unique and mesmerizing piece. Due to physics of the earth’s rotation, a hanging pendulum slowly swings, while the tip etches designs in the sand like a zen garden.

40-Hour Laptop Batteries – Stanford Silicon Nanowires

(TrendHunter.com) By using silicon nanowires as the anode, in rechargeable lithium ion batteries, instead of graphite the amount of lithium the anode can hold is extended tenfold and thus the battery’s life.

Needless to say, a tenfold increase in battery life is great news far beyond laptops. This is great for tr…

Magical Luxury Water – Madonna Spends $10,000 a Month on Kabbalah Water

(TrendHunter.com) At $5.00 a bottle, Madonna is currently spending $10,000 USD per month drinking Chernobyle water, and according the British Government and the Department of Trade and Industry, she also believes this magical water can used to treat radioactive material. Madonna and Guy Ritchie are devote followers o…

Custom Flickr Cards – Phreetings

(TrendHunter.com) Phreetings is a really neat site that lets you create your own photo ecards using images from Flickr. I’m not sure if it’s Flickr endorsed as there’s no information on the site.

The cards are easy to create. Simply type in a search term of your choice (I chose “fashion”) and it automatically searc…

First Flat Pack Home – The Maison Tropicale (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When will IKEA offer this? The Maison Tropicale, a revolutionary design by Jean Prouvé is going on display at Tate Modern, a design museum in London.

The building originally designed to help with the shortage of housing in Congo and Niger during the late 40’s and early 50’s. Jean Prouvé is known…

Gaming Terminology – Sandbox Games

(TrendHunter.com) The Gaming Terminology Word of the Day is Sandbox:

noun. 1: a shallow box or hollow in the ground partly filled with sand for children to play in.
Historical: a perforated container for sprinkling sand onto wet ink in order to dry it.

Gaming Term: a playable world within a game that allows the pl…

MacBook Air Is Not The Thinnest Notebook – Mitsubishi Pedion Is

(TrendHunter.com) There are already people, who are jealous of MacBook Air’s ‘The Worlds Thinnest Notebook’ title, and trying to prove otherwise. Apparently, not in vain. According to Newlaunches, this title belongs to an obscure notebook from 1998, the Mitsubishi Pedion, that was 18.4 millimeters thick, which comes …

Bionic Contact Lenses – Real Holographic Displays for the Eye (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Bionic eyes! For the first time, researchers have developed a safe contact lens that can give humans vision like Superman. The lens has an imprinted circuit and lights which would display graphics similar to the Terminator and or the eyes of Bionic Woman.

These characters have “bionic eyes to zoom…

Pay To Play – UBFunkeys

(TrendHunter.com) They’re called UBFunkeys and they are little toy creatures that you plug into your computer. There are 24 of them in all (8 tribes of 3 members each). OK, so what do they do? They are actually keys to a digital game world – one of the latest crazes sweeping the land of computers. If you have kids, y…

Music on the Road – Singing Streets Tested in Japan (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In the land of Harajuku girls and sushi now the streets can sing. Well, kind of.

The members of the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute, which work with cryogenic science and research under microgravity environment amongst others, scraped markings along three roads in central and northern Japan …

Monkey Thoughts Control Robots – Cognitive Powers of Apes for Tech (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Dig out your copy of Planet of the Apes or Netflix it, because monkeys are operating robots. A 12 pound monkey in North Carolina activated a 200 pound robot to walk on a treadmill using only brain activity. It was the first time this had occured. The Duke University lab team proved that monkeys cou…