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Top 30 Technology Trends and Gadgets in 2008 H1 Edit

Top 30 Technology Trends and Gadgets in 2008 H1

Published: Jun 17, 08
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Based on our traffic stats, the following is a list of the top 30 most popular trends from our Technology Trends and Gadgets category.

This week, we’ll be profiling some of our hottest posts to celebrate the middle of the year… Plus the TrendHunter.com database is approaching 20,000 posts, so it’s a great time to be nostalgic.

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Top 30 Technology Trends and Gadgets

1. Free Phone Calls - Magic Jack USB Phone Gizmo

Want free phone calls? From a landline? Like those long hold times to tech support or your credit card company? Magic Jack is a USB device that allows you to plug a regular phone into your computer and…

2. Ice Sauna - The Snow Room Anti-Sauna

The Snow Room was showcased at a recent Hotel Equipment Fair in the ever-sunny resort of Antalya, Turkey and will be on sale in all luxury hotels and spas in 2008. The room will be offered to those hotel…

3. Top 37 Nerdy Fashions - Geek Chic (SUPER GALLERY)

It’s time to face reality: geek has become chic. Being computer savvy is no longer just for nerdy computer lab dwelling geeks, it’s a must for anyone who will see success in the wired future of tomorrow.…

4. Top 20 New Gadgets From CES 2008 (GALLERY)

These were the 20 most popular Technology Trends and Gadgets from CES 2008, based on our traffic statistics.

If you have a something you’d like to submit to our Technology Trends and Gadgets category,…

5. Starring in Strangers’ Photos - PhotoBombing (GALLERY)

Have you ever been surprised to see a stranger appear to pose like he’s part of your photos? It’s no accident. In fact, there’s actually a term for what he’s doing. He is PhotoBombing.

The term refers…

6. Gruesome Shockvertising - Sony PSP Retry Ad

I am certain that soldiers, fighters and armies all over the world would love this retry feature. The “Retry” Ad for Sony’s PlayStation Portable player gives you a gruesome visual with limps and organs…

7. Mile-High Eco-Tower - 500 Floor London Building (GALLERY)

Here is another plan for a super-high skyscraper, this time in Europe’s very own London.

The eco-friendly building, which will be 500 stories high, could house 100,000 non-height-fearing people as well…

8. Animals of the Future - Exhibit Showcases Future Climate Change and Evolution (GALLERY)

During a virtual safari, visitors of the Futuroscope in Poitiers (France) can learn about future animals. The exposition shows how the fauna of our planet evolve over the next million years.

It is not…

9. Disastrous Uber Editing - Famous Photoshop Bloopers (GALLERY)

Everybody knows that Photoshop is the miracle recipe for great looking stars. But what happens when the art director is over using the Photoshop wonders? It ruins everything! Stars get incredibly slimmer,…

10. 23 Unique and Bizarre Alarm Clocks

Waking up isn’t always easy, especially now that the internet has practically made the 9-5 concept non-existent. People are working around the clock, and sleep is being jeopardized as a result. Catering…

11. Dubai Sky Photos - View From 85th Floor of Burj Dubai (GALLERY)

Now this is cool! Although it really looks like it, this incredible photo wasn’t taken from a plane; believe it or not, it was taken from the 85th floor of the Burj Dubai. To date, it is the world’s tallest…

12. Top 50 Innovations in Social Networking and Online Dating

From social networking for dogs to celebrity communities, this list showcases the 50 breakthroughs in social networking and online dating.

Over the last few years, we’ve even seen celebrities popping…

13. Ancient Greek Sandal Skateboard - Tougher than Leather (GALLERY)

The Tougher Than Leather skateboard by Greece is For Lovers fuses the modern sport and lifestyle of skateboarding with the ancient style of Greek handmade sandals.

You can not get any more old school…

14. Transparent Apple Displays - MacBook Touch (GALLERY)

In what could be the holy grail of tablet computing, Apple’s latest applied patent (see image below, right) showcases using a transparent multi-touch display that can work as a control surface on two sides,…

15. Levitation Furniture - Hoverit Floating Lounger (GALLERY)

This is not a prop from “Future MD” or the classic “Barbarella.”

It’s a Hoverit magnetic lounger. The chair levitates because of the magnets in the base and on the lounger. You know - the magic of Perez…

16. PC Inegrated Desks - XYZ Computer Desk

We have seen PC integrated desks before, but nothing comes close to the minimalism and abstract design of the XYZ Computer Desk.

XYZ wanted something to suit their fast moving studio environment and…

17. Nightmare-Inspired Photograpy - “After Dark, My Sweet” by Joshua Hoffine (GALLERY)

Joshua Hoffine is an artist who finds inspiration in Hollywood icons like Stanley Kubrick. He directs the stars of his photos, usually family and friends, using elaborate sets and props, make-up and lighting…

18. Keyboard Pants - Beauty and the Geek Jeans (GALLERY)

Designer Erik De Nijs stitched up this techno-geeky pair of jeans so that wherever he went, he wouldnt be far connecting to technology.
Built in to the knees are speakers for rocking while you run, and…

19. Top 31 Innovations in Photographic Technique (SUPER GALLERY)

A lot of photographers were worried that with the dawn of the internet and the ubiquity of digital cameras, that the true art of photography would be lost. Fortunately, the opposite has happened.

There…

20. Edible Landscapes - Foodscapes by Carl Warner (GALLERY)

These peculiar food landscapes were created by photographer Carl Warner.

The talented still life photographer has done a tremendous job in the collection of images in which foods represent common elements…

21. 77 iPhone Innovations (and iPhone Worship) (SUPER GALLERY)

Whether you like Apple’s iPhone or not, there is no denying it started a revolution that has forever changed phone design. It was an iPod, an Internet device, and a phone without having buttons.

From…

22. Multi-Sensory Remote Communication - Nokia Scentsory Phone (GALLERY)

Finally - a phone that offers a really unique design instead of just more diamonds. This is a concept phone by Nokia called the Scentsory and it is fascinating.

It evokes the human senses of sight, sound,…

23. Wrap-Around Widescreen Gaming Monitor - Alienware (CES 2008) (VIDEO)

The 2880 x 900 resolution screen is meant to capture your field of peripheral vision on the Alienware mega monitor. The screen wraps around, letting viewers feel totally immersed.

It was revealed at…

24. BlackBerry Bold - New Blackberry Launched Today

Yet another new BlackBerry has hit the market, this time called the BlackBerry Bold. Blackberry says they’re targeting the “business” demographic. Uhh, isn’t that who they’ve always marketed to?

The…

25. Mosaics for Marketing - Steve Jobs Made of Apple Products (GALLERY)

We’ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.

While this image of Steve Jobs doesn’t hold any moving messages about society, it could…

26. Light Tattoos & Skin Embossing - Temporary Body Mods by Kye Ok Kim (GALLERY)

This series of incredible temporary body modifcation devices was designed by Kye Ok Kim and showcased at Seoul Design Week 2007. They allow those who want to express themselves through artistic body work…

27. Camera Sees Under Clothes - T5000 does Strip Search From 80 Feet Away

Oooh…cameras that see through clothes! Well it really can’t show anatomical details, so don’t get too excited. From a distance of up to 80 feet, the new cameras are capable of seeing things under your…

28. World’s First Wooden Supercar - The Splinter (GALLERY)

I don’t think we will ever see those supercars around, but it is still a unique and innovative car. American designer, Joe Harmon, 27, started the project with other students at North Carolina State University…

29. Bionic Contact Lenses - Real Holographic Displays for the Eye (VIDEO)

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…

30. New LG Watch Phone Unveiled (CES 2008) (VIDEO)

There have been other watch-phones, but those have been mostly by Chinese companies that nobody has heard of. The exception was LG’s Korean rival Hyundai and it’s W-100 Watch Phone as I previously…

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