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Simian Mobile Disco – Audacity of Huge from ISO FILMS on Vimeo.

The red P*PHONE appears in this video 1 minute in. Made by the lovely and talented Kate Moross

Hulger is foaming over this electric car concept from Honda, about to be unveiled at the Tokyo Motor show. If conscience can be this cool, we’ll all be behaving ourselves in no time.

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In Praise of Shadows is a one week show at the V&A’s Jones Gallery and runs until the 27th September

Inspired by the EU directive to phase out low efficiency light bulbs by 2012, this display explores the designer’s response to lighting, shadow and efficiency. Drawing together works by designers from across the EU, this project brings humour and beauty to the challenge of energy and light efficiency, and explores the potential of alternative energy sources

Our PLUMEN 2 low energy light bulb design concept has been included in the show so you can see it at the V&A until the 27th September

The exhibition was covered on Friday’s Channel 4 News – see it here

If you’ve been holding out for a price drop on the PAPPA*PHONE then here it is

150USD, down from 300USD as we sell through the original batch made by Furni in Montreal, Canada from sustainable American Walnut

Go to the PAPPA*PHONE SALE>

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.

via unplugged

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

via Coolhunting