Bike Saddle Backpacks – The Cycle Bag (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Cycle Bag is a bike saddle that can be carried, with two straps, as you would a backpack.

I love this concept! As a long time resident of a large city, I know for a fact that owning a bike in a sprawling urban area such as New York can be daunting at times; the bik…

Touch Screen Phones Inpired by Ancient Scripts – The Scroll (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re gonna dream, dream big! That seems to be the motto behind The Scroll mobile computing device by 13 Tech Design.

Inspired by the ancient Egyptian and Greek scrolls, the Scroll packs some powerful punches. It is a touchscreen mobile phone with a 10 megapixel camera and 1080p camcorder, bui…

Honey Comb Speakers – The Hive

(TrendHunter.com) The Hive, as I will introduce it here, refers to a high end new sound system, not the hairstyle British crooner Amy Winehouse recently made popular again. Having said that, Hive is a funny-looking sound system that consists of several hexagonal flat panels or cells in a honey comb pattern that can p…

Celebrity Fashion Robots – Gwyneth Paltrow in Vogue (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The intrigue with futurism and robots has permeated the fashion industry, with space-inspired styles supplementing the growing integration of robots and smart technologies in our daily lives.

Labels like Diesel have captured these elements in futuristic photoshoots, but to further solidify the move…

Storage Puzzles – PLAY! Coffee Table (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The PLAY! Coffee Table by BCSXY is much more than it seems from the outside.

The ingenious design allows you to shuffle and move surface panels around, giving you access to sixteen hidden compartments.

The wheeled table has dimensions of 40.5″W x 40.5″L x 17.75″H.

Made from walnut veneered plywo…

Olympic Inspired Gadget Design – Bird’s Nest MP3/4 Speakers

(TrendHunter.com) I’m sure there is going to be a long list of Beijing Olympic-inspired gadgets as the August games draw nearer, but this one inspired by the Bird’s Nest is a good start.

These cute little speakers are made for use with MP3, iPods or notebook computers and have been inspired by the modern shape of t…

Receipt Rings – “Ring Me Up” Tracks Your Purchases

(TrendHunter.com) Ken Goldman’s Ring Me Up is a unique ring that helps you keep track of all your receipts, allowing you to keep them literally on hand at all times.

Goldman uses jewelry as a vehicle for social commentary but what makes his pieces really unique is that they are functional and reflect a great sense …

Walk-in Coffee Machines – The Javabot (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Javabot is a walk-in coffee machine that blends seven different kinds of specially roasted and ground beans, at the right temperature, to give you that perfect cup of coffee.

The Javabot “delivers a coffee with your favorite blend of seven beans, plus how they are roasted, ground and the tempe…

More Rugby Fashion – Just Cavalli Underwear Ad (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Take that, Armani and Beckham! Just Cavalli’s new men’s underwear ad features not one, but 5 members of the Italian rugby team, Montepaschi Viadana.

The campaign which will run starting in June 2008 in a selected number of Italian and international magazines features: Aldo Birch, Ross Curlew, Matth…

Decorative Power Extensions – WirePod (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While settle for an ugly extension cord when you can have an artistically designed multi-point electrical “power pod”?

WirePod is designed by Dutch designer Joris Laarman for a new series of Artecnica products called Wiremore. Wiremore aims to make you so proud of your electrical cables that yo…

Interactive Walls – Christiaan Postma’s Calendar Wallpaper

(TrendHunter.com) Christiaan Postma’s calendar wallpaper could really come in handy in the slammer. Joking aside, teenagers, children, some adults and even perhaps some businesses may find this interactive, dual-purpose calendar and wallpaper to be of use and even fun to have.

Hands-Free Toilet Phones – NAJA King iPhone Holder (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Thought Out Company has produced a hands-free iPhone holder called the NAJA King (pronounced NAHA). The King has a flexible, 3-foot coil that can be shaped and bent to your liking (or to finagle around toilet-paper holders). They even recommend wrapping it around your neck for a mobile hands-fre…

Back Shavers – iShave Telescoptic Razor For Carpet Backs (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This gadget isn’t as exciting as the iPhone, but for those of us with masses of bear fur on our backs, the telescoptic iShave razor is salvation.

With this gizmo, there are no more muscle cramps from twisting our arms around our shoulder blades to get that last patch of hair. The iShave extends up…

Monowheel Cars – Audi Snook Concept (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While we may laugh at this monowheel car concept by designer Tilmann Schlootz, it has actually won a Michelin Challenge Design Award 2008. It will also be showcased at the “Hannover Fair” from 21-25 April 2008.

How does it work? Tilmann Schlootz describes it as, “The Magic Egg of Columbus, or…

Interactive Pop Culture Stats – Culturegraph.com

(TrendHunter.com) Culturegraph.com incorporates and creates pop culture graphs, which include flowcharts, calendars and maps, collectively on one website.

They monitored the massive Internet following that was started on Flickr “song chart meme” and wanted to incorporate this Internet sensation to focus not only on…

Super Car Mobiles – The Ferrari Cell Phone (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I don’t know how I feel about this Ferrari cell phone. On the one hand, I love miniatures, on the other hand the phone looks kitschy as hell. But that’s just my opinion. The little Ferrari has 2.2 inch touch-sensitive LCD display, USB connectivity, MP3 and picture and video camera. This little toy w…

Blow Drying Toilets – Neorest AH Tankless Toilet (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The tankless Neorest AH by Japanese Toto is a water-saving hybrid toilet that uses both inboard and outside water sources of about 5.5 litres per flush campared to the wasteful 13 litres used by traditional tank-type models.

Other features include warm water and gentle warm-air drying built into th…

Mini-Notebooks the New Text Book? – $500 HP 2133 Mini-Note PC

(TrendHunter.com) Last week HP introduced the HP 2133, a full-function, mini-notebook designed for students with a price tag of US $500. The Mini-Note PC allows students to bring it comfortably from school to home or to any place where they might continue studying.

At slightly more than 2½ lbs (1.150 gr), the HP M…

DIY Braille – AccuBraille Adds Dots Everywhere

(TrendHunter.com) AccuBraille is a new module which enables the embossing of Braille dots on all sorts of packages. Braille is now mandatory in the EU on pharmaceutical packaging. This was enough for Bobst, the well-known Swiss manufacturer of cardboard processing machines, to dedicate a team of 5 people for 18 mont…

Anti-Branding Coffin Headphones – iCover (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As a statement against our obsession with branding, designer Nick Ross came up with iCover. His motivation? “We don’t want to look like all the other sheep!”

We pay for the product, why do we have to be a walking advertisement for the brand?

The iCover discards this unnecessary branding of the dis…