Alex Covert, Trend Hunter

Recycled Electric Toothbrush Gadgets - Bristlebot/Brushbot (VIDEO)

Old toothbrushes can be used for all sorts of things - cleaning greasy engine parts, scrubbing hard-to-reach toilet nooks, and creating robotic artists. The folks at Evil Mad Science Laboratories discovered a simple DIY robot project. It uses a toothbrush head, a pager motor, and a watch battery. A spin off of the Bristlebot is BrushBot, a project designed by Christian Cerrito, that uses two heads instead of one to vibrate around on a palette of paint blobs. [More]

Floating Restaurant Tables - BBQ-Donut (GALLERY)

The BBQ-Donut is a floating party table. This invention is actually a boat with a very quiet, electric motor on board. It seats 10 people around a BBQ pit/table and includes a stereo system, coolers under the seats, and a sunshade above the rider's heads. [More]

Insect Repelling Clothes - Buzz Off

Spot Cool Stuff found a line of clothing, aptly named Buzz Off, that contains Permethrin, a man-made version of a natural insect repellent, woven into the fibers. Made by Ex Officio, the repellent properties work on mosquitoes, ticks, fleas, and flies and lasts for about 70 washes. It also provide… [More]

Car Mirrors With Games - Multifunction GPS Bluetooth Rearview Mirror System

Shenzhen MCD Electronics is selling the "swiss army knife" of rearview mirrors. The Multifunction GPS Bluetooth Rearview Mirror System sports "a 3.5-inch touch screen, satellite navigation, audio and video players, speakers, SD card slot, five games, and even a stylus." Want to pop it off and play… [More]

Exotic Record Breakers - The 900 HP Weber Becomes World's Fastest Car (VIDEO)

Here is the next vehicle that claims to be the world’s fastest street-legal sports car - the Weber Sportcars Faster One. Reportedly, the car can go from 0 - 62 mph in 2.7 seconds, 0 - 124 mph in just 6.6 seconds, and has a top speed said to be over 248 mph! That’s fast. For around $1.5 milli… [More]

Ex-Boyfriend Jewelry - Sell What You Won't Give Back

ExBoyfriendJewelry.com is a unique online marketplace for old, unwanted jewelry from relationships gone awry. The site's tagline is, "You don’t want it. He can’t have it back." In addition to the actual jewelry, the site serves as place for women to share their break-up stories. So you don'… [More]

Lunar Real Estate - Can Corporations Claim Lunar Property?

Recent discussions of property rights n the moon has pointed out an interesting point - that the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 makes it legal for corporations to claim lunar property. Companies could therefore stick their proverbial flag in the moon dust to mark it as their own. Talk about an incre… [More]

Invisibility Paint - AR 1 Camouflages Radar

There is a man who has been contacted by the Iraqis, the Chinese, and several other world powers. Why? The German inventor, Werner Nickel, has developed a paint that can make whatever it coats invisible - at least to radar. Located somewhere in the United Arab Emirates deserts, Nickel somehow inve… [More]

Robotic Flying Jellyfish - AirJelly (VIDEO)

Designed by German company, Festo, the AirJelly is essentially a remote radio-controlled airborne jellyfish. It is a helium-filled balloon with eight tentacles that are powered by two rechargeable batteries. It is proof that movement in water can be mimicked in air. [More]

Shark Surfing! (VIDEO)

There are two kinds of people in the world - the kind that fear sharks and the kind that spit in their eyes, saying, "Come get some!" We've seen the first kind as represented by the Shark Shield, a device that produces an electrical field around a surfer's board to deter sharks. The second kind is r… [More]