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Here’s a useful link for out and about Skype calls

We just had confirmation that HULGER will be making an appearance this summer on MTV’s Pimp My Ride.

Found this nice quote on PSFK, taken in turn from an article by Alice Rawsthorn in a recent FT Weekend:
“The new spirit of design is raw, surreal and idiosyncratic… character is what you want from design right now. In our spoilt, saturated consumer culture, we have become bored by the sleek, over-styled interiors we see [...]

I initially stopped by to see this image on flickr with some helpful annotation. But whilst on superlocal’s flickr album I also found some really interesting architechural and design images, many annotated in interesting ways.

Standard mass-market technology products are boring which is why there’s a boom in customisation. This is a nice example that goes beyond the usual laser etching or painting techniques, ubiquitous in the realms mobile phones and sneakers.

Vinçon, a fantastic design shop based in Barcelona and Madrid (a HULGER stockist) are also bored with the way technology looks so they’ve taken things into their own hands

We’re liking NTT DoCoMo’s army style MP3 player and phone (with a rather boring name – Music Porter X) which would go handsomly with our Wearheadphones.

FM3, a Beijing based band released music on this Buddha Machine. Adam Park says:
As music becomes increasingly robbed of physical form and reduced down to a series of file extensions, there’s something undeniably appealing about the actual-factual ownership of a physical entity. Whether this be the pleasure of handling a new 12″ or copping a [...]