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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.

As we’re soon due to stock the iPhone adapter we were very pleased to see the iDial, the perfect software accompaniment when using your iPhone with a Hulger handset.
thanks notcot

These bangles made from old lens parts are really interesting and available at Oyemodern.
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Like with our Plumen designs, Pieke Bergmans imagines bulbs as art objects, but this time, instead of taking the CFL route, Pieke places an LED cluster in the hand blown, sculptural forms. Read more at Dezeen

Whilst most of the world occupies itself with making everything wireless, there’s a small cult of designers thinking about how to make the wired world a little more aesthetically acceptable. Joris Laarman is one such designer with this pretty multi-point power adaptor.

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We like these simple, stylish, retro(ish) portable speakers from Bird-Electron.
Available here

“This object plays on the common led-display digital clock with physical segments that slowly transition in and out of the surface”
Alvin Aronson’s site
thanks nicky

Some shots from the Design And The Elastic Mind Show at MOMA in NYC. Both the phones and Plumen bulb concept made it into the show alongside what looks like a fascinating and thought provoking collection.
Thanks Glen Jackson Taylor for the images

Technology is often at its best when it’s invisible. That’s why we’re so keen on these solar roof tiles that can be laid in by any tiler to fit neatly into any standard pitched roof. Here’s a UK company offering them and an old story we spotted on the BBC about a guy generating so [...]

We like the Wenge Series by Jason Linde.