(TrendHunter.com) In the future, everything could become a touch-sensitive interface, but it wouldn’t be the object itself that was picking up the movement, it would be a system integrated into each finger, specifically under the nail. It wouldn’t cost much either, all you need s a basic web cam and computer.
This w…
(TrendHunter.com) Sick of wasted paper, a Japanese chef specializes in making edible menus and tableware. We’ve featured these menus before. This is somewhat different, but the premise is similar.
Instead of using plastic bowls, plates and chopsticks, the tableware is made of hardtack which is a biscuit dough made …
(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever wondered why our keyboards our organized the way they are? It’s called QWERTY – the 6 letters run across the top of modern-day keyboards. It goes back to when typewriters were first produced. Original keyboards were arranged in alphabetical order but, due to the use of actual keys, the…
(TrendHunter.com) Anytime I’ve been on a bike with four people pedaling, at least two are just loafing along. Add beer to the mix and this Pedal Pub isn’t going to go far or fast. After starting in Germany and the Netherlands, it is now in the U.S. 16 people can ride, with five pedaling seats and the driver.
(TrendHunter.com) As companies outgrow their original spaces, they find themselves needing temporary offices in a hurry. Dutch designer Jack Brandsma has a unique and attractive solution he will be showing at the design show next month in Milan. Any vacant building can be an office in 24 hours, and then gone just as …
(TrendHunter.com) This awesome concept by talented designer Mac Funamizu takes inspiration from Microsoft’s Play Anywhere for a stand system that turns your iPhone into a desktop PC.
The system works by mounting the iPhone on a stand featuring a built-in projector and sensors.
With a full keyboard and trackpad pr…
(TrendHunter.com) This is a very clever design of a wine bottle by Viktor Pucsek for the PapaMama Design Competition.
The Vinho Verde (literally green wine) concept incorporates eco-friendly practices in the design of a very attractive bottle. The bottle’s labels can be peeled off and folded up into paper cups. How…
(TrendHunter.com) So, they decided to make a cell phone that not only looks like a pack of cigarettes, but also holds real cigarettes in the back! The Wang XYW 3838 phone runs on dual band GSM, takes micro SD cards, plays MP3, has a color screen and a VGA camera on the side. The price of this pack of cigarettes/cell …
(TrendHunter.com) The University of Plymouth is leading a consortium in the UK with the goal of teaching a “baby” robot to speak. The researchers will be working with language development specialists to understand how humans learn speech, and will try to apply that approach to a humanoid robot called the iCub (which,…
(TrendHunter.com) Opening the door for a generation of flexible electronic devices, the world’s first “completely integrated, extremely bendable circuits” were developed and demonstrated by a research team led by John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The flexible stretchy silicon circuits …
(TrendHunter.com) A solar powered alarm clock? Really? Yes, that sounds counter-intuitive, but it’s true!
According to the manufacturer, one day’s worth of charging will last a whole year, so you don’t need to worry about cloudy days or dark bedrooms. It has kind of a 1950’s nuclear bomb shelter look to it, but if …
(TrendHunter.com) Lunar Energy, a British tidal power company, and Korean Midland Power Company have joined forces to develop the world’s largest tidal power project in the Wando Hoenggan waterway.
Each of the huge 1 MW turbines that will be used for that project will be 15 meters in diameter and over 19 meters lon…
(TrendHunter.com) Can clothes be so performance-enhancing that the Olympics may not allow it’s use? How about if it’s a swim suit? Shall they all race in the buff? Speedo’s LZR Racer is not just helping swimmers break records, they are smashing them. Therefore the swimming federation has ask Speedo to defend their de…
(TrendHunter.com) This is a projection clock that displays the time to a wall and is sound-sensitive so that it can be turned on and off by clapping like that clapper commercial of many years ago. The clock’s measurements are 34.5cm x 29cm x 27cm and the price is $125.
(TrendHunter.com) InnovaTek, a Washington based company, has recently developed a microreactor that can convert almost any liquid fuel to hydrogen. According to gas2.org, the device can accept a wide range of fuels, including “gasoline, diesel, vegetable oil, biodiesel, propane, natural gas, even the glycerol byprod…
(TrendHunter.com) A digital clock and a chess set. But what I like the most about this ingenious gadget is its beautiful design. I’m a sucker for a pretty design even if I don’t care for the product.
The digital clock’s interface, with its funky looking screen, is a great idea and it gives the gadget a “personality…
(TrendHunter.com) I am not sure how on-board I am with this environment friendly Japanese water-free urinals. I am all for going green, but something about not flushing after peeing just doesnt sit well with me.
Introduced by The Nankai Electric Railway Co. the urinals eliminate the need to flush after use by using …
(TrendHunter.com) It was created in Brazil, more specifically in São Paulo, a new store that works like the standards of the Search Engines algorithms.
Endossa is a new project that functions more like a community of innovation than a regular store. They rent small spaces for entrepreneurs to exhibit and market the…
(TrendHunter.com) This little guy (8 x 11″) was designed by researchers at Toshiba. ApriPoko, as he is referred to, is the ultimate universal remote – and not just for your television. Check this out… ApriPoko detects infrared waves when you use a remote, for your tv, for your stereo, for whatever, and he asks you …
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s another item we can file under the “Narcissist Trends Collection.”
These custom cuff links actual feature a replica of you, or whoever the image is of that you submit. Send your photo in to Eleven Forty Design, and within a few weeks, you’ll receive your Portrait Cuff link in the metal you …
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