Folding Instrument For Traveling Musicians – The Backpack Electric Guitar

(TrendHunter.com) When I fly into or out of Nashville, which is quite often, I always feel sorry for the musicians who have to lug their guitars on board.

Fredrick Johansson, a commercial pilot and picker, didn’t like it either, so he invented a foldable guitar. I looks great. Made from mahogany and aircraft qualit…

iPod Got Wood – Gorgeous Handmade Wood Cases (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Wanna protect your iPod touch or iPod video in a stylish, environmental and natural way? Check out these stylishly abstract and organic handcrafted cases from Massachusetts artist mjdinsmore. The collection is crafted from cedar and mahogany, and features intricate details such as inlays, dovetails …

Music Underwater – Waterproof Scuba MP3 Player

(TrendHunter.com) Decompression stops can be painstakingly long and boring. If you have to kill an hour underwater, then a few tunes from your favorite band would help the time pass more quickly. Now with Frontgate’s Waterproof Scuba MP3 Player, you can go down to 200 feet with it clipped onto your mask. The device r…

Cuff Links for Non-Cuff Link Types – Spunique’s Emergency Cuff Links

(TrendHunter.com) I have to confess…I don’t own cuff links. I am surrounded by designer men’s jewelery every day at my 9 to 5, but I have never had an urge to buy cuff links or a shirt that would require them. Some are shocked by this and some are envious.

I am very intrigued by, and tempted to purchase, Spunique…

Real Life Sci-Fi – 5 Scenarios Poised For Reality

(TrendHunter.com) A slide show appearing on the MSN Tech & Gadgets site recently predicted “Five Sci-Fi Scenarios That Will Come True”.

In order, they are:

â–  Biometric Security (2010) – This involves using fingerprints or iris scans or the like to do more than just gain access to a room. They will soon be used i…

CD Players Get Tech Makeover – Tilt Sensing ‘Pandora Alcantara’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Believe it or not, some people still own CDs. Antoine Lebrun and Volkan Akbiyik designed Pandora Alcantara, a stylish wall-mounted CD player that tries to keep up with today’s technologies by incorporating tilt sensing and touchscreens into the player. The remote control is a tilt sensing bar with a…

Ketchup As You Tube Art – More Playing With Your Food

(TrendHunter.com) I love this video of Kethchup Art video so much – in fact I think the EclecticAsylumArt totally rock and I love the idea of You Tube as an art gallery.

Basically it’s a group of you tube users who upload awesome works of art with food to this use tube channel and have clocked up millions and millio…

The Car You Can’t Crash – Volvo “City Safety Car”

(TrendHunter.com) Volvo introduced a new system that can prevent your family from an accident. The City Safety system has a laser sensor which can spot vehicles in front that are too close or could cause a collision by stopping suddenly.

When the system works, the car will come to a halt by itself in order to avoid…

Folding Flat-Pack Footwear – EIN/Tritt Origami Shoes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto one might say when opening the shoe box to find these folding shoes from EIN/Tritt shoe concepts.

Designer Catherine Meuter has shown how shoe manufacturing can turn flat shoe patterns with reinforcements into wearable footwear. It’s like the whole flatpack furniture craze…

1 Second Movie Downloads – IBM’s Green Optical Link Technology

(TrendHunter.com) Who cares about that whole High-Definition hoopla anymore when you can download a high-def movie into your gadget within a second?!

IBM is developing next-generation communications technology, Green Optical Link, that uses light instead of wires to send information. The technology uses photons of …

32,000 Barbies Represent Real Boob Jobs – Running the Numbers by Chris Jordan (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Up close, you can see that these photographs consist of some fascinating detail; the entire design is made of plastic dolls. 32,000 Barbies, to be exact.

The images, created by photographer Chris Jordan, are more than just art; they are a form of social commentary and send a message backed by frig…

Lip-Syncing Desktop Companion – USB Powered Tengu (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Ever want a companion to talk to during those late nights at the office working on your computer? Tengu won’t talk back, but at least it will entertain you! Tengu is a USB powered….thing…that responds to music, your voice, or other noises. It can even “lip-sync” to the singer for some songs. …

Sticker Lamps Really Work – Tall & Tiny

(TrendHunter.com) You can not get a more flexible or efficient space-saving lamp design than Tall&Tiny;by Alice Rosignoli. Tall&Tiny;are two sticker-lamps in Vinyl foil, that answer your desire and need for home furniture while considering the problem of ever-decreasing living space. I really love these 2D designs. Y…

Interactive Love Story – Story Telling on Pavements

(TrendHunter.com) She Loves The Moon’ is an interactive love story / art installation found on the streets of San Fransisco. To ‘read’ the book you choose simply follow the arrows which correspond with the story line you would like to follow.

Without giving too much away there are two endings to this story; one happ…

Future of Scooters – MIT RoboScooter (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) MIT Media Lab’s RoboScooter prototype is entirely electric, with at least one lithium-ion battery pack that can be swapped out for another, fully charged on. It can also folded up for easy transport. The RoboScooter’s biggest innovation however — one with the real potential to change the state o…

Robot Cellphone – Toshiba Softbank 815T

(TrendHunter.com) The new Toshiba Softbank 815T PB is a robot/cellphone hybrid made for a Japanese TV show called Ketai Sousakan 7 that transforms into a robot and back to a cell phone just like the robots in the Transformer movie. If you look at the pictures of the gadgets, you will see partially articulated robot-l…

Gang Fashion Ads – Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 08 (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Peep these new ads for the Dolce & Gabanna Spring / Summer Men 2008 collection. The theme of the ads, which were shot by famous photographer Steven Klein, is ‘The Gang’.

The models featured include Sam Webb, Tom Warren, Michael Camiloto, Tyson Ballou, Sean Harju, Marcus Hedbrandh, Evandro Soldat…

Propose With an iPod Touch – ‘Marry Me’ iPod

(TrendHunter.com) Nowadays, a woman asking a man for their hand in marriage is pretty common. Selfridges is offering any ladies looking for a techie way to pop the question a luxurious solution via this limited edition designer iPod touch. The iPod is encrusted with black Swarovski crystals, hundreds of them, and for…

Shotgun Shell Shot Glasses – Winchester Shooters

(TrendHunter.com) Doing shots from shotgun shell glasses would be entirely raw fun. These four glasses replicate Winchester 12 gauge shot gun shells, including polished brass-look base and plated nickel “primer.” How about a double barrel shotgun blast? Ever heard of a pump shotgun? These glasses could start a whole …

1st Microsoft Surface Game – Firefly (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Just about everyone who’s seen the Microsoft Surface is captivated by its possibility, and eager to see more of what it does. I know I can’t wait to see it live.

This video shows a new game for the touch-screen table top called Firefly. It’s the first game developed specifically for the Surface an…