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Technology is often better if it’s hidden. Nasty screens packed with icons we cannot understand and functions we have no clue to use are best left back in our teenage. Our mobile phones carry all our applications now and they’re a lot better at it. So the watch should be free again, free to tell the time and nothing else. So we love this watch from 100% that has no screen as such, it simply exploits the gaps in an ordinary looking metal strap to sneak the information out. Perfect.

We’re very happy to present our brand new PAPPA*PHONE, the world’s first wooden VoIP phone. Made from sustainable American walnut and brass, the PAPPA* is HULGER’s first new phone design for almost three years.

PAPPA* is hand crafted in Canada by Furni from one piece of wood, so that the rich, natural grain can be seen to flow from the handset to the base, interrupted only by the solid band of brass that covers and compensates for the material lost in the cutting process.

Not a single button is found on the slender, angular form. The reason? You don’t need one. The computer interface of a mouse, screen and keyboard can manage the call much better than a fiddly on-phone button constellation. Skype’s MAC or PC software interface is a lot more efficient than the usual clunky VoIP-phone screen menus. That’s why we’ve cut out everything apart from the fundamental phone function, that of speaking and listening. Without the need for buttons the materiality and form can sing.

Like all HULGER products, the PAPPA* has been designed to “wear in” not “wear out.” The materials selected can be continually restored so that the phone becomes more individual and personal with age.

HULGER launched the ZIRICOTE* concept design made from an African wood of the same name in 2006. The design received a very warm reception which spurred us on to create the PAPPA, a design more suited to production.

The PAPPA* is now available to order from our online store at Hulgershop . Visit the site for prices in your region / currency. We now ship from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.

After creating the ZIRICOTE* design concept we’ve been very interested in wood as a material. In fact we’re only a few days away from launching our first wooden production model, The PAPPA*PHONE. In the meantime here’s a lovely wooden keyboard we found. Link: Hacoa

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Designer David Forbes has created this beautiful alarm clock from a cathode ray tube.

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Recent graduate Fiona Jean Thomson has created these beautiful concepts. I don’t think we need to explain why we like them.

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UK based designer Vladimir Rachev sent us this Iron Phone concept. Here’s his full product portfolio.

Sit back in the comfort of your computer chair and enjoy Hulger in glorious 3D. With the aid of a piece of A4 card it’s like Hulger’s sitting on your lap. All at www.hulger.tv

Our friend Lotte Van Laatum has just launched these cool lights that incorporate a bespoke CFL bulb design. The best production low energy light design we’ve seen so far.

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More people now use their phones to wake them up than their alarm clocks, The Birmingham Post reports

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