 Emoticon Helmets to Hide Your Feelings - The Mask of Emotion::Developed by the Digital Media Design Department at Hongik University in Korea, the Mask of Emotion helmet was designed to hide real emotions by creating a different set of fake facial expressions that… [MORE] |
 Digital Mechanical Clocks - Duncan Schotton Digimech Clock::The 'Digimech Clock' is a new design by UK designer Duncan Schotton that combines the concept of a mechanical clock and a digital display. The clock uses vertical sliders operated by electrical motors… [MORE] |
 Potato Gun Contests - Spud-Launching Science::Some people take potato guns VERY seriously.
It is unclear how the SpudFiles.com sanctioned Spud Gun Contest is judged by their website, as access is restricted to registered members.
My guess though,… [MORE] |
 Air Piano - No Need to Touch Keys With Omer Yosha's Airpiano::Omer Yosha's Airpiano is very similar to the famous Theremin invented in Russia around the year 1919. A Theremin is one of the earliest electronic musical instruments, and the first musical instrument… [MORE] |
 Futuristic Eco Kegs - The Kegstand::Why the hell hasn't this been thought of before? Seriously! Frequent party-throwers will want to invest in one of these: The Kegstand. Designed by Kaleidoscope, a product development consultancy in Cincinnati,… [MORE] |
 Health Management Mobiles - The Pantech Inhealth Cell Phone::The Pantech Inhealth cell phone designed by Kristina Lee is a device geared towards the health-conscious person.
The concept phone keeps tabs on your workouts and manages your diets by using the eNose… [MORE] |
 Parcel-Carrying Scooters - The Cargo by Elliot Ortiz::This attractive scooter dubbed the Cargo was designed by Elliot Ortiz, an industrial design student from San Francisco. The two-wheeled vehicle was conceived as a light cargo vehicle as its name indicates.… [MORE] |
 Anti-Paparazzi Gadgets - The Image Fulgurator::Imagine a hip celeb exiting from the hottest nightclub, in the wee hours of the morning, on the arm of a gorgeous man... however, he's not the one she’s married to. The paparazzi swarm, flashes go off… [MORE] |
 Weed Whacker Golf Clubs - The Big Daddy Driver::This gizmo is for those golfers who take the game a bit too serious. The Big Daddy Driver is actually a grass trimmer disguised as a giant golf club. The bottom of the "club" flips open to reveal a bit… [MORE] |
 Interactive Brainstorming Tables - The Kage Roi::Brainstorming is a crucial part of innovation, which is why we always get excited when we find new inventions to make the process even more productive. The Kage Roi is an interactive brainstorming table… [MORE] |
 Gadgets for the Perfect Goatee - GoateeSaver::It's a cross between a football mouthpiece and an "As Seen On TV" grooming product. It's called the GoateeSaver and it's the brainchild of Scott Bonge. Simple idea, really. You bite down on the mouthpiece,… [MORE] |
 Bouncing Boobs to Charge iPods - The Chest Charger::A very innovative research experiment examined the possibility of boobs charging iPods. The questions is, could the energy created by bouncing boobs during exercise generate enough electricity to power… [MORE] |
 Top 30 Unique Inventions in 2008 H1::Pink cigarettes, levitating furniture and keyboard pants are just a few of the unique inventions that topped our list of the top 30 unique inventions.
The list is based on traffic to our unique discoveries… [MORE] |
 11 Very Innovative Vacuum Cleaners::Vacuums have come a long way since the first manually-powered one was invented back in 1868. Judging by the range of innovations for the floor-cleaners in recent years, they have a long way to go too.… [MORE] |
 Fake Hairy Toes - The Nike Human Shoes::Whatever possessed Nike to come up with these Human Shoes? The concept is indeed unique, quirky and plenty weird. However, I don’t think I know anyone who would like to walk around in footwear that looks… [MORE] |
 Rotary Phone Watches - The Zihotch Retro Phone Watch::This quaint piece of accessory is bound to get a lot of people talking ill about you behind your back. This is the Zihotch Retro Phone Watch made by Japan’s Maywadenki.
Designed with a face that imitates… [MORE] |
 Power-Assisted Suitcase - LiveLuggage::Finally, luggage that pulls itself! LiveLuggage boasts motor technology built into the wheels and an anti-gravity handle putting 85% of the weight over the wheels. For goodness sake, it even has umbrella… [MORE] |
 Pork-Flavored Dental Hygiene - The Bacon Floss::Nothing makes me want to run to the nearest restroom to floss my teeth like the taste of pork. And that is exactly what this special bacon-flavored dental floss offers: a mouth-watering, crispy, grease-soaked… [MORE] |
 Low Emission Auto Design – Three Wheeled Compact from Berlin::The Technical University of Berlin has designed a three-wheeled car called CLEVER or Compact Low Emission Vehicle. It is an urban transport that runs on compressed natural gas and gets 188 miles per gallon.… [MORE] |
 Eco Architecture - Rammed Earth Homes::Innovations in architecture and construction materials are always welcomed because of the growing interest into going “green”.
The rammed earth construction for buildings is incredibly old. It can… [MORE] |
 Puzzle House - Mysterious Fifth Avenue Home::This apartment has been revamped by architect Eric Clough with an assortment of puzzles for the current and future owners to solve.
The project is one of a kind and depended upon a number of collaborations… [MORE] |
 Real Exercise in a Virtual World - Stationary Bike Connected to SecondLife::A set of prototype stationary bikes has been rigged up to a computer to allow riders to explore the online world, SecondLife. Sensors on the bikes read the velocity of the turning wheels and the direction… [MORE] |
 Binaural Recording - The $3899 Otokinoko Microphone Has Ears::It’s called binaural recording and it works like this: a microphone that is shaped like your head (spherical) and has ears records sounds the way humans actually hear things.
When played back through… [MORE] |
 Dirt-Repelling Paint Job - Chamelic::It sounds more like a magic spell than a new technology - a dirt-repelling coating. Spray it on glass, metal, or plastic and… that’s it. The surface stays clean. Developed by the University of Leeds… [MORE] |
 Perpetual Passenger Train - Non-Stop Metro Rail Transit::Taiwanese inventor, Peng Yu-lun, has designed a non-stop passenger train. It takes a lot of energy to start and stop a moving train due to something called inertia (mass x speed). Awesome! Wait a minute.… [MORE] |
 Thought Changing Furniture (Update) - The Mind Chair Projects Into Your Head::Remember The Mind Chair that Trend Hunter told you about back in February? That early polypropylene version of the chair was presented at the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition 2008 at MoMA in New… [MORE] |
 Chairs That Follow You - RFID Robot Chair::The Dutch designer Jelte van Geest created a chair that follows people around. The Take a Seat robot chair was conceived and designed for the Openbare Bibliotheek Endhoven library and the robot chair moves… [MORE] |
 Skin Antennas - Wireless Connection for Medical Implants::We already have wireless internet at home and Wi-Fi outside the home. Why not a personal wireless connection for different medical implants like pacemakers in our bodies too? William Scanlon and Gareth… [MORE] |
 Shoes Made of Rice - The Secret to Olympic Gold?::The secret to winning Olympic gold may lie in an innovative new shoe made with grains of rice.
The Japanese sneakers, custom made by Hitoshi Mimura, will be put to the test by United State distance runners… [MORE] |
 Bomb Alarm Clocks - You Disarm it to hit Snooze!::This silly clock is really quite functional, albeit annoying.
Unlike a traditional alarm clock, this one not only resembles a time bomb, but also shares some of the same attributes. When woken up by… [MORE] |
 Anti-Sleep Driving Alarms - Stay Awake At The Wheel (UPDATE)::Have you had one of those near-death encounter while driving where you unintentionally fell asleep? If yes, you'd better be careful since not only your life but the lives of others are at stake. So before… [MORE] |
 Turbine Powered Speedboats - The Squirt2 Jetboat::What do you do if your regular old speed boat is just not fast enough? Why, not try adding a helicopter turbine? That's exactly what the innovative thinkers at NYE Corporation have done. According to their… [MORE] |
 Cell Phone Microscopes - The CellScope Diagnoses Malaria::A research team at UC Berkeley is working on a potentially life-saving technology that could diagnose Malaria using a cell phone and a special microscope. This is a great breakthrough as it eliminates… [MORE] |
 Vibrating Bracelets for the Deaf - The Vibering for Safety::The Vibering by designers Kwang-seok Jeong, Min-hee Kim and Hyun-joong Kim is a very ingenious sound detection and identification system to help the deaf and hard of hearing capture the sounds around them… [MORE] |
 Talking Watches - Learn To Tell Time In Japanese::For the modest price of about $20, this cool gimmick can be yours. Talking Japanese watches supply an audio component to traditional time-telling in a fashionable array of colors.
For the non-Japanese… [MORE] |
 Visible Magnetic Fields - NASA's Magnetic Movie::Magnetic fields are usually invisible but scientists from NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory have successfully found a way to make them visible, as demonstrated in the video. Nasa’s short film, appropriately… [MORE] |
 Flame-Throwing Wheelchairs - Shoots 15 Ft Flames::For the latest project in their line of strange (but cool!) inventions, racegreathouselabs.com came up with something no disabled person who likes living on the edge can possibly do without: a flame-throwing… [MORE] |
 Custom Eco Adverbottles - Klean Kanteen Co-Branded Bottles::Personal aluminum bottles are quickly gaining popularity, for health and ethical reasons. Klean Kanteen offers not only stylish plastic bottle alternatives, but the ability to customize them for marketing… [MORE] |
 Girly Gothic Art - Queenie's Pocket Full of Posiez::Multi-talented L.A. based gothic artist Queenie is the ruler over a kingdom of playfully wicked characters she calls Posiez. Her Posiez are portrayed in a series of paintings, shown exclusively at the… [MORE] |
 3-D Virtual Reality - The Third Eye::The Third Eye is a device conceived by Japanese designer Takehito Etani. The contraption, which goes on the head, offers the user a very different and unusual perception from outside his/her body. The… [MORE] |
 Top 14 Bacon-Themed Products (SUPER GALLERY)::Ready to pig out a visual grease feast? While some people may be blown away by the abundance of bacon-inspired products in this cluster, it should be noted there are far more cured pork themed items on… [MORE] |
 Cell Phones With 5 Touchscreens - The Packet::The Packet, designed by Emir Rifat, gives us an idea of what the future holds for cell phone technology. The Packet is a foldable mobile phone that will measure 5x5 cm when folded, and when fully opened,… [MORE] |
 Flatpack Stadiums - 2012 London Olympics Architecture::The 2008 Beijing Olympics haven't even begun, and already there's buzz about the 2012 London Olympics. The plans for the flatpack stadium were unveiled and they're quite remarkable, and make perfect sense.… [MORE] |
 Musical Suits - The Pacer::A few frills here and there, a well-placed ribbon, and the Pacer musical suit will easily turn into must-have evening attire for hard core ravers. This concept suit responds to electrical pulses created… [MORE] |
 Redneck Houseboats - DIY Lake House::If you saw the Redneck Mansion we featured a while back, you know luxurious lifestyles are no longer reserved for the elite. This homemade houseboat is another fine example of how luxe living is possible,… [MORE] |
 Heat-Sensitive Wallpaper - Shi Yuan Walls::Wallpaper may have become an interior design don’t, but an innovative new heat-sensitive wallpaper could help it make a comeback.
When the walls are exposed to heat, like that of a radiator, or the… [MORE] |
 RFID Social Networks - Jive::Jive is brilliant concept device to allow the elderly and technophobes without computers to still participate in a social network. Their needs are no different from the rest of us; the need to communicate,… [MORE] |
 Carboard Toilets - The Portable Brown Box::Have you ever seen a real #### Box? I'm not using the term as an adjective for the cardboard, I'm just relaying the product name. The light-weight portable toilet is for those moments when you get the… [MORE] |
 Personalized Steak - Custom BBQ Branding Irons::Coming this June is a customizable BBQ Branding Iron that allows you to create a message with a name or expression, or mark your steaks rare, medium or well-done. All you have to do is slide the letters… [MORE] |
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