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Hulger isn’t into arms in general but we found these strangely attractive. Antonio Riello explains of his Ladies Weapons:

“In 1998 I decided to focus my artistic research mainly about a “fashion-fiction” visual story regarding an old passion of mine: weapons - objects full of symbolic senses. I want to mix, in an artistic way, traditional [...]

Whilst we’re generally unimpressed by people copying the Hulger idea, occasionally we spot things we like. Here’s one from Bmeres that installs Bluetooth tech into an old Russian handset, one with a mouthpiece that seems to have inspired lord Vadar’s mask design.

We like the Wenge Series by Jason Linde.

We like this idea

We like Robert Stadler’s Pentaphone, a suspended booth that blocks noisy ambient noise in public spaces as you use your phone. More at Dezeen

We found this on Make, one of our favourite sites. If what’s out there doesn’t inspire you then create something that does. We share Make’s point of view.

As the sand shoots through this Sun-Young Lee designed hourglass, light is generated. As the sand runs out the light turns off leaving you to sleep in darkness. Reminds us a bit of this from our Hulgerisation project last year.

We rather like this
Found on Core77

Chinese artist Ma Jun brings us some beautiful porcelain electronics.
via notcot.org

Wattson is the new home energy monitor that looks rather lovely, helps save money on bills and allows users the chance to really live a life of less is more.
DIY Kyoto as the name implies are helping us make sense of our own energy consumption using their first product, Wattson. Good technologies like this can [...]