Skateboard Furniture – Skate Study House

(TrendHunter.com) Pierre-André Senizergues, the owner of Etnies Shoe Co. along with Gil De Le Bon Lapointe, have developed a collection of furniture for an upcoming exhibition in Paris.

Skaters and snowboarders has been building furniture for years out of broken skateboards and last year’s snowboards. The differen…

Electric Light Shoes – Onisuka Tigers With Mini City of Lights

(TrendHunter.com) The electric light shoes were designed for a Japanese footwear company, Onitsuka Tiger, by Freedom of Creation.

The shoe is 3 feet long and contains a miniature city inside, the stripes resemble streets and highways and tall building point out from the shoe’s opening. The huge shoe is intended t…

Gesture Based Window Shopping – Orange’s No-Touch Interactive Shop Window (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Orange has launched an amazing new interactive window campaign featuring what at first appears to be a touch-screen interface, but is in fact a NO touch interactive shop window. Instead of requiring touch to activate the display, users need only wave their hands in what’s being called “gesture based…

Tailgate Dining – The Exhaust Cooked Burger

(TrendHunter.com) A team of Iranian designers came up with this brilliant cooking idea which actually isn’t as disgusting as it first looks. Your car’s exhaust is used as a barbecue to grill your food!

That still sounds bad, but consider that the fumes don’t come into contact with the burger, the exhaust just hea…

The MDI Air Car – The Ultimate Green Machine (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) After working on the air powered car concept for the past 15 years French engineer Guy Negre is about to bring this revolutionary vehicle to the masses thanks to a contract with India’s main car manufacturer; Tata Motors. Not only is this the worlds cleanest car but it is also functional with MDI …

Instant Computer Boot-Up – Splashtop

(TrendHunter.com) Silicon Valley startup, Device VM, is trying to get you on the web faster than ever before. When it comes to computers, you have two options: leave it on and waste energy or turn it off and wait several minutes until your machine boots up. Now, you have something in between – Splashtop is a mini-ope…

Silverclips – Funky Device Monitors Your Energy Usage

(TrendHunter.com) The saver-clip is a an ingenious design to monitor the usage of all your electronic devices. The device is the size of a clothespin, which clips easily to to your power cords and displays their power consumption on the embedded LCD. Talk about a stylish and useful device.

Aquaduct – Bike Your Way to Clean Water (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This innovative bike was the winning submission in the Innovate or Die competition. This unique invention is a tricycle with a built in water filtration system. At the back it has a large water container for unpure water. When you start riding the bike you pump the water from that container through …

40-Hour Laptop Batteries – Stanford Silicon Nanowires

(TrendHunter.com) By using silicon nanowires as the anode, in rechargeable lithium ion batteries, instead of graphite the amount of lithium the anode can hold is extended tenfold and thus the battery’s life.

Needless to say, a tenfold increase in battery life is great news far beyond laptops. This is great for tr…

First Flat Pack Home – The Maison Tropicale (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When will IKEA offer this? The Maison Tropicale, a revolutionary design by Jean Prouvé is going on display at Tate Modern, a design museum in London.

The building originally designed to help with the shortage of housing in Congo and Niger during the late 40’s and early 50’s. Jean Prouvé is known…

Bionic Contact Lenses – Real Holographic Displays for the Eye (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Bionic eyes! For the first time, researchers have developed a safe contact lens that can give humans vision like Superman. The lens has an imprinted circuit and lights which would display graphics similar to the Terminator and or the eyes of Bionic Woman.

These characters have “bionic eyes to zoom…

Music on the Road – Singing Streets Tested in Japan (UPDATE) (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) In the land of Harajuku girls and sushi now the streets can sing. Well, kind of.

The members of the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute, which work with cryogenic science and research under microgravity environment amongst others, scraped markings along three roads in central and northern Japan …