Solving the Energy Crisis – 10,000 Humongous Foil Balloons (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Party balloons may be the next big thing in solar power. Cool Earth has made some giant balloons with gizmos inside that will convert the collected sun and focus it onto a cell. They have been given a big chunk of moola to make 10,000 balloons to cover 80 acres in California and hopefully in a coupl…

Urban Olfactory Installation – AIR Lets You Smell Helsinki, Budapest, Paris. (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This urban olfactory installation is by far one of the most phenomenal travel-related concepts I’ve seen.

Think for a second what Italy might smell like, or Bombay or Amsterdam. No, it’s not the smell of thin crust pizza, curry or pot. The smell of a city goes much beyond that, and it’s those uniq…

A Walking Rave – Music Light

(TrendHunter.com) We have already seen many audio accessories that flash and light-up with your music. The Music Light however, takes it one step further because sound can be visualized in a way no current product on the market can do. Instead of just flashing, you can see pulses of light move up and down the cords, …

Fake a Twinkling City View – The Better View Curtain (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Do you ever dream that instead of looking at your ratty lawn during the day that you could see the twinkling lights of huge metropolitan city? Or maybe you’re stuck with a horrible view of a neighbouring concrete building. If you want a change of scenery without leaving your home, then you’ll love t…

Biodegradable Couture – Helen Storey’s Dissolving Wardrobe

(TrendHunter.com) Hopefully you are recycling your clothes by giving them to a younger sibling, goodwill or the like. But imagine a world where your clothes had an expiration date and started dissolving.

What a great way to punk that co-worker you hate. Loan her your expired dress. Helen Storey wants couture to be …

Home Built Laser Harp – Light-Controlled Synth Harp in Action (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Laser harps aren’t necessarily new, but this is the first time I’ve seen a home built one.

In the video, Stephen Hobley moves his hands over the laser beams projected in the air to produce music as the sensors gets blocked. My explanation of the light-controlled synth harp isn’t great, which is wh…

Velcro Jacket – Takkiainen (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) While the Takkiainen was designed to bring together lonely people who might happen to brush up against each other in a busy city, the most fantastic implication of the Velcro jackets is their possibility to attach babies and children to the body. How much easier would it be to stick your kid on your…

Instruments Made of Car Parts – Car Music Project for Ford (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Recycling has spurred on such a huge movement for creative projects like these instruments made of old car parts.

The video is from the British Ford commercial we posted last week which featured an entire orchestra made of pieces of a Ford Focus backed up singer, Alesha Dixon. The music they are a…

Ad Evaluation By Blink – imotions

(TrendHunter.com) Adverting is an expensive business and agencies and their clients are always looking for ways to monitor the success of a campaign.

imotions, a danish technology company, have created a way to monitor viewers reactions through their blink. The eye sensors track where a person is looking, their pup…

Xbox Controllers Get Tweaked For Halo

(TrendHunter.com) Ever since the Xbox 360 has hit the markets there have been few mods, most of which have been total flops, until now. Head in the Game Controllers have taken the Xbox controller and vamped it specifically for the #1 selling Xbox game, Halo. The present controller layout for the game is practical yes…

Liquid Vest – Nano Tech Armour Repels Bullets (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Weighing only about 2 kgs, this new Russian armor uses nanotechnology to repel bullets.

While traditional ballistic vests made of heavy plates can weigh up to 12 kilos (26.4 lbs) these new vests are filled with a special gel that makes them much lighter and more comfortable to wear. They were inve…

Supersonic Flight – Reaction Engines A2 Hydrogen Airplane

(TrendHunter.com) This Quiet Supersonic Transport (QSST) concept is the A2 hypersonic plane designed by Reaction Engines of the U.K. It will carry 300 passengers and reach speeds of up to 4,000 mph. It will run on liquid hydrogen and could fly between England and Australia in less than 5 hours. A production model won…

Charge by Movement, Not Batteries – Atlas Kinetic Phone (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) You will no longer worry about recharging your phone on a long trip, or be able to make up excuses about your phone being out of juice. The Atlas Kinetic Phone uses the daily movement of a cellular phone to generate electricity. And it does so in an elegant and stylish design, with a central sapphir…

Personal Generator Suit – Charging Nanofibre Yarn

(TrendHunter.com) Dead phone or MP3 player batteries may soon be a thing of the past as there is now a personal generator suit to ensure your gadgets are always charged.

Nature.com reports that “Zhong Lin Wang and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have made a yarn out of nanofibres th…

Apple Compatible Toilet – Air Poo

(TrendHunter.com) The Air Poo is a huge Poonovation when it comes to comfort style and functionality of a toilet. It sports a Macbook Air docking station that allows to comfortably get work done while taking care of other business, and allows you to store the Macbook in the toilet tank to recharge. As well a built in…

Robot With Acute Senses – Robo-Rat Has Functioning Whiskers

(TrendHunter.com) A collaboration of nine research groups from Europe, Israel, and the US have teamed up to build a robotic rat with a unique feature: it has functioning whiskers!

Traditionally, sensors used for robotics are usually non-contact based, such as vision sensors, laser range finders, and ultra-sonic tr…

The Future of Plush Toys – Elmo Live is Amazingly Real (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) He sings, he dances, he even tells jokes and does the jazz hands! It’s not just another in the long line of popular plush Elmo products, Elmo Live elevates feature plush into a new dimension of realistic, interactive play. Elmo Live, was announced by Fisher-Price at Toy Fair 2008 and will go on sale…

Hippies Need High-Tech Love Too – The Aura (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Frog design mind introduces Aura, a future health concept that combines traditional healing and cutting-edge technology. It monitors a patient’s health, provides alternative treatment, and displays visual signals and warnings. Therapeutic elements like light, sound, and aroma are fused with high-tec…

For Senior Citizen Baby Boomers – Nokia ‘Health Guard’ (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) As older people are prone to forgetting their medicine and keeping track of what they should and should not eat, Marcela Kawka and Izabela Cichecka have created the “Health Guard” concept for NOKIA. The Health Guard targets the upcoming generation of senior citizen baby boomers who are tech savv…

Detect The Intensity of Virtual Kisses – Kiss Phone

(TrendHunter.com) We told you cell phone kissing was a hot activity in Japan, and now kissing your loved one from a distance via mobile is even easier thanks to the Kiss Phone.

Better than just using video and making loud smooching sounds, this neat gadget from PROinvention can actually detect the intensity of your…