Rotary Dial iPhones – iDial (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Combine cutting-edge gadgets and retro style with this awesome beyond words rotary, analogue style dialler iDial application for the iPhone.

In a clash of the past and present technologies, iDial utilizes the iPhone’s innovative multi-touch capabilities with the ancient but cool dialler of analog …

Recycled Robot Jewelry – Obvious Front (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) D Young, the artisan behind Obvious Front, makes the funkiest robot earrings, pendants and ornaments from recycled parts of old TV and VCR. The quirky, humorous bots are assembled from capacitors, wires, resistors – anything that can form the body, arms, legs and head of his little creations. He has…

Macadamia Nut Bowls – Husque Houseware (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Mark Harrison’s Husque houseware is really attractive. Fashioned out of Australian macadamia nut shells, The Australian designer uses a special compound to mold the shells and create very beautiful, colorful bowls and other tableware that make use of nuts, pods and organic shapes as sources of ins…

Recycled Electric Toothbrush Gadgets – Bristlebot/Brushbot (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Old toothbrushes can be used for all sorts of things – cleaning greasy engine parts, scrubbing hard-to-reach toilet nooks, and creating robotic artists. The folks at Evil Mad Science Laboratories discovered a simple DIY robot project. It uses a toothbrush head, a pager motor, and a watch battery. A …

Coffee Makers of the Future – Nespresso Design Contest Winners (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Well known for their sexy and creative coffee maker designs Nespresso gives us a peek at the future of coffee designs with the announcement of the winners of their second Nespresso Design Contest at an awards ceremony in Milan.

The four winning designs are:

First place: ”Untitled” by Brice Genr…

Vegetables As Appliances – Antoine Lebrun’s Aion Kitchen (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Antoine Lebrun’s futuristic kitchen design called Aion Kitchen is supposed to answer the question, “What would a small kitchen look like in 10 years?” Brandt Aion is a multi functional kitchen which merges electromechanical and vegetable technology. The specialized plants, which were developed by …

Double-Take Animal Photography – Intimate Views of Tim Flack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tim Flack’s portfolio of photography is astonishing. He captures stunning images of animals using unexpected perspectives and extreme close-up points of view. Flack’s photos of bats are genius, he actually makes them look.. cute… in a way. There is a sense of actually ‘experiencing’ the c…

Adding Fun To Organization – The Butt Station (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With the clutter and tens upon tens of gadgets and stationary sprinkled and spread across my desk, why not add another one that can actually help organize and reduce the mess? I am not sure though that I would choose Urban Outfitters quirky organizing tool which is called The Butt Station. I kid yo…

Blooming Light Designs – Agave Inspired Aloe Lamps (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the Agave plant, a tropical cactus with distinctive fleshy-leaved flowers, new zealand born, london-based designer jeremy cole launched his promising design career with this beautiful Aloe lamps collection.

The Aloe collection includes three designs – the Bud, which represents the birt…

Floating Restaurant Tables – BBQ-Donut (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The BBQ-Donut is a floating party table. This invention is actually a boat with a very quiet, electric motor on board. It seats 10 people around a BBQ pit/table and includes a stereo system, coolers under the seats, and a sunshade above the rider’s heads.

Jumbo Remote Controls – You Can’t Lose this One

(TrendHunter.com) The picture here doesn’t do justice to this invention… clearly, SIZE MATTERS! The massively oversize universal television remote measures 5″x11″x3/4″, and is near impossible to lose. I saw this invention live once, and I had to be convinced it wasn’t a toy.

As far as being a functional inventio…

Battery Racks – Ideal Storage + Gimmicks

(TrendHunter.com) This battery rack falls into the category of “I can’t believe this isn’t more commonly used!” The convenience of this single-unit battery organizer goes far beyond its ability to house 53 batteries of assorted sizes.

The additional features include capacity for fuse storagel an included light bu…

Pet Strollers – Walk the Cat in Style

(TrendHunter.com) The pet stroller allows cats, and less mobile dogs to accompany their owners on leisurely walks in style. The basic pet stroller, as pictured here, can comfortably carry a pet of up to 25 lbs. Like most mobile devices though, there are available upgrades.

The SUV version of the pet stroller has a…

Tweezer Lights – Multi-Functional Tool

(TrendHunter.com) This pair of tweezers is more like a stainless steel appliance, armed with an LED light for illuminating those hard-to-reach places. Although it’s intended for traditional tweezer use, judging by all its additional features, this one must be multi-functional.

Here are some possibilities:

-a make…

Ultra Tiny BackPack Planes – The EXO-Wing (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Atair Aerospace’s EXO-Wing, is the world’s smallest human-piloted jet. The novel gadget is on display right now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy Exhibit collection.

“The only thing we know about the EXO-Wing is that the twin micro-turbine-pow…

Butter Sticks – Grease Sticks for Toast

(TrendHunter.com) The glue stick butter applicator is just the right combination of functionality and silliness. I’m not sure that this idea is a commercial reality, but I can definitely see the potential.

One can’t help but look at this picture and think, “Why not?” It may not be worth a thousand words, but def…

Virtual Girlfriends – INBED: Never Sleep Alone

(TrendHunter.com) Consumed with his graduate school program and motivated by a loneliness I can totally identify with, New York University student Drew Burrows showcased INBED, an “infrared-sensitive” light projected virtual girlfriend, at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program Spring Show at Tisch School of th…

Exposing Humanity Through Photos – Images of China’s Earthquake (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) My father, a German living in Beijing, sent me a beautiful article from Bild.de, the online version of a popular German newspaper. It was a moving piece that was supplemented with touching photos like those in the gallery. It got me thinking how a natural disaster can leave over 42,000 individuals k…

Rainbow Earbuds – Radius TruTunes in 10 Shades (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) No matter what your product, people want choice. Radius, a earphones manufacturer, realized the need to address this demand which is why they are offering their TruTune line of headphones in just about every colour of the rainbow — the ten shades of the iPod Nano — so there’s one guaranteed to mat…

Cell Phones for Seniors 2 – Easy Mobile Calling (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The EMC (easy mobile calling) phone by designer Matthias Pinkert is targeted at growing baby boomer demographic. As they age, designers are trying to come up with products and designs to keep them up to date with technology while still taking their age into consideration.

The EMC phone features fou…