Cell Phones for Seniors – ClarityLife

(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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Self-Making Beds – Selfy the EasyBed

(TrendHunter.com) The alarm clock goes off. You roll out of bed and stumble into the bathroom to brush your teeth. As you walk back into the bedroom, you stop and stare. Something isn’t quite right. Something is different. MY BED! IT’S MADE! Oh yeah, I forgot I bought one of those self-making beds designed by Enrico …

Tubular Microwaves – Bagetty Microwave

(TrendHunter.com) If you are a fan of quick, hot, tubular food, Martin Zampach is your guy. He made the concept Bagetty microwave that is not a box. If you only microwave hot dogs, weinies, sausage, this is much more convenient and space conscience than the bigger traditional microwave. This could spawn a whole new p…

Small Devices for Huge Web Power – Intel Atom Processors

(TrendHunter.com) Intel recently announced its Atom Processor at a developer forum held in Shanghai. The device is designed to function as the “brain” to power mobile internet devices (MIDs).

Atom processors, formerly known as Silverthorne, give these mobile devices a PC-like experience with a long battery life.

Sm…

Kinetic Enegery Keyboard – The Dynamo Green

(TrendHunter.com) The concept behind this Dynamo Green keyboard is that it will help lower your monthly electricity bill. But the catch is that you have to keep typing. When you type, you’re harnessing the power of kinetic energy with which to power the computer thereby enabling you to save energy. That’s the premise…

3D Medical Simulators – PerioSim for Dental Students (VIDEO)

(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 …

Floor Blow Dryers – Hurricone

(TrendHunter.com) The Hurricone not only warns of a wet floor…it also dries it. An internal fan blowing all 360 degrees up to 15 feet works on battery power for up to 12 hours on a single charge.
This will probably reduce the number of slip and fall lawsuits.

Rechargable Outdoor Candles – LED & Silicone Mood Lighting

(TrendHunter.com) Didn’t Glade do this already? Oh sorry…these are “outdoor candles”. Well if they’re for the outdoors, why are they not 100% water proof? After a night of drinking outside I don’t want to have to remember to bring these in. Because if I do forget, there goes my $90.

These LED candles may be good f…

iPod Trumpets – Phonofone II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is the Phonofone II, designed by Tristan Zimmermann.

I love it when somebody takes a high tech gadget and makes an accessory that is very low tech. There are no electronics for the phonophone, it depends entirely on the ceramic design and horn acoustics to amplify the sound of you iPod by con…

Posh Baby Strollers – Metrolla Strolla

(TrendHunter.com) Finally, a stroller that is designed to traverse stairs. The Metrolla Strolla is an awkward high-chair-on-wheels-looking-thingamajig that would also look good in any urban family’s foyer (pronounced foy-a). Then again this baby-moving machine from designer, Dan Levin, looks like something off of rob…

Fan-Inspired Ultra Mobile PCs – F@N UMPC (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) A big problem with current UMPCs is the limited screen size that hurdles multi-tasking or prolonged usage. Inspired by the folding fan of the east, F@N is a concept of a powerful UMPC that looks like a normal one screen device but actually has a hidden keyboard and two other screens that can easily…

Instant Tea by Twisting Bottle Cap – Matcha Tea With A Twist (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Just by twisting the air-tight cap, 1.4 grams of high-grade green tea, Kyoto matcha is released into the mineral water, serving up fresh instant tea, with no added chemicals or preservatives. In the same manner, CIC Co. also offers health drinks like Ukon (tumeric) and Aoijiro (kale juice). I’m not …

Virtual Brainwashing – OrangeDream Cyber MC (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is not a joke. Wanna quit smoking, lose weight or feel happier without doing any of the hard work? Korean company, OrangeDream promises you just that with a very interesting “brainwashing” system that supports a variety of modes including education, health, no smoking, meditation and more.

The…

Bluetooth in Your Tooth – Nano Electronics Dental Insert (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While I find the idea of embedding any devices in your body very weird, this Bluetooth Microphone Dental Insert that utilizes Nano Electronics certainly makes sense for those who work at call centers or are just addicted to talking on the phone.

According to the distibuter Chinavision, “an extremel…

Radioactive Products – Tritium Glowing Keychain Lasts 10 Years (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The most I hate about keychain lights is their short lifecycle. The Mini Tritium Glowring Keychain wins my heart by having the ability to glow continuously for 10 years!

It’s perfect. Completely contained and self-powered, with a compact design and an ultra bright green glow (hello night clubs). An…

Inflatable Architecutre – Blow-Up Concrete Building

(TrendHunter.com) Researchers at Kassel University are exploring a new type of building material that involves inflating a flexible skin and then, filling embedded cavities with concrete. Voila – inflatable concrete! A pop-up building! Blow it up. Squirt some stuff inside. Move in the furniture.

Snail-Inspired Keyboard – Caracol

(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…

PC on your Wrist – The INFO Live Bracelet Concept (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) INFO Live is a bracelet PC concept that merges smartphone, a mobile device and a PC into a pretty, fashionable accessory. INFO Live is one of the concepts that emerged from the 2008 Next-Gen PC Design Competition that ended in February. Right now this is just a pretty bracelet. Gearfuse says, “Use …

Hands-Free Flushing – Foot Flush

(TrendHunter.com) Hands-free flushing in public restrooms is a must. If you find yourself in a bathroom that’s not high-tech with motion-sensors to the flushing for you, I suggest getting yourself a Foot Flush for work; everyone at the office will appreciate it.

It hooks up to a regular toilet and sits on the groun…

DUI Awareness Products – Recycled Windshield Beer Glasses

(TrendHunter.com) What happens to the smashed windshields after a drinking and driving incident render a car in shambles? Well, one company recycles them into beer glasses!

Ok, ok, so it’s not that ironic. The Recycled Windshield Glasses don’t only use glass from DUI cases, but I’m sure some of the recycled windshie…