(TrendHunter.com) What mood are you in? Regardless of your answer, Philips has a mood lighting to go with it. More than just providing the functionality of brightening a room, these lights combine elements of art and design.
Each Philips Living Color Lighting System has two red LEDs, one blue and one green which co…
(TrendHunter.com) In a growing trend of street lighting that is capable of generating its own power (see Folrida’s , and Canada’s attempts); Mauricio Clavero designed the ‘Autonoma’. After looking at these different solutions, the Autonoma wins hands down in the department of elegance and beauty.
(TrendHunter.com) Undercover agents do not have to be ‘wired’ anymore. Designed by UK company WCCTV for law enforcement and security personnel, the 3G Covert Backpack is perfect for surveillance (or other ideas some twisted minds will surely use it for).
The central unit of the body-worn equipment uses a robust com…
(TrendHunter.com) Surfer dudes. Oceans. Whales. Tree-huggers. Small cars. Surf boards that collapse. That about sums up the need for the Pope Bisect brand of surfboard – a surfboard that breaks down into two pieces and is quickly reassembled when the waves are right. Radical design! I hate to tell Nicholas Notara tha…
(TrendHunter.com) The Israeli made Aerotel GeoSkeeper is a GPS enabled device that can be strapped to the wrist of an senior citizen or child and programmed to set off an alarm and send their location if they leave a defined area, neighborhood for example. The GeoSkeeper has an embedded quad-band GSM/GPRS module and …
(TrendHunter.com) I’ve always held the opinion that food and beverage critics are nothing more than an ancient bloodline bent on protecting the family business at all costs. The sayings ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ and ‘a #### sandwich is good if you like it’ say it best.
That being said, Nestle researche…
(TrendHunter.com) A few key players in the mobile phone world are using at London Fashion Week, which is currently running, as an opportune venue to test drive some innovative new technologies like NFC’s Instant Fashion Feedback.
Nokia, for example is working with designer Emilio de la Morena who is using Near Field…
(TrendHunter.com) It doesn’t get any greener than this. A mobile phone made entirely from recycled material. Nokia unveiled ‘remade’, an environment friendly phone concept at the Mobile World Congress. The silver-coloured handset’s chasis is made with plastic from drink bottles while its rubber keypad is made from o…
(TrendHunter.com) Send digital messages with a pen? The D-Scribe is a digital pen, designed to look like a traditional fountain pens, however it converts your handwriting into digital form to be sent as either text messages or email via a Bluetooth connection to your phone. Simply write the recipients name and cir…
(TrendHunter.com) I always like to rearrange the furniture placement and decor of my place to give it a fresh feel. However, adding or moving a wall light is a complex and expensive affair, since the wiring has to be embedded beneath the surface of the wall. Now, a wallpaper with conducting strips running through it…
(TrendHunter.com) In great news for diabetics, who currently have to take a sample of their blood to measure their glucose levels; a new non-invasive test that is safer and more convenient is being developed by consumer electronics company Philips. The non-invasive blood glucose meter simply monitors the concentratio…
(TrendHunter.com) One of the major challenges when developing new drugs is how to apply them only where and when they are needed. MIT researchers have developed a new film technology that could address some of that challenge. According to MIT News, “The films are made from alternating layers of two materials: a neg…
(TrendHunter.com) Star Wars put the idea of a 3-D, holographic video into the minds of an entire generation – remember, Princess Leia pleading, “Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” We’ve come a long way in acheiving that technology. Scientists from the University of Arizona recently developed “rewritable” h…
(TrendHunter.com) Ugh, could the people around me just keep their mouths shut?
If you’ve ever found yourself thinking something along those lines when out in public, you’ll understand the inspiration behind the Use-Thing, an enormous helmet that shields you from society’s most obnoxious sights, sounds and smells.
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(TrendHunter.com) Great news for us clumsy/ lazy people and for the environment as well. With the help of nanotechnology, self cleaning forms of wool and silk have been developed. The technology used is a nano particle coating, similar to the one already used to keep windows clear, that could lead to “self-cleaning” …
(TrendHunter.com) Liked the idea of biology lessons but just could not get to grips with the frog dissection part of it, well computer scientists at the University of Buffalo have come up with the world’s first virtual reality frog dissection software. Now you can avoid all the moral and ethical questions live dissec…
(TrendHunter.com) You know no one would swipe a walkman these days (unless they were hitting up an ’90s costume party and needed the prop), but iPod theft is incredibly high. That’s precisely why we love this great idea to use an old, portable cassette player as a case to hide your favourite MP3 player.
Just make su…
(TrendHunter.com) Perfect for those obsessed about their dishs being spotless while conserving water. EULO is a sink that performs instant grey water recycling for reuse whilst washing dishes; providing constant rinsing without the water waste. It features three levels of inbuilt filtration; a primary particle strai…
(TrendHunter.com) Nuclear scientists at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research) are planning an experiment that could make that a possibility, according to Irina Aref’eva and Igor Volovich, of Moscow’s Steklov Mathematical Institute. CERN’s high energy atom-smashing tests could “create a rift in the fabric…
(TrendHunter.com) The Vie (pronounced vee, French word for life), designed by Du Tran Nguyen, is a sports glove concept that incorporates today’s latest technologies to enhance sports, active and social lifestyles via an innovative human-machine-interface. In addition to being a typical health monitor, The Vie al…
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