Archive for the 'SOCIAL*TECHNOLOGY' Category

HONDA EV-N

Friday, October 9th, 2009

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.
Read more on autoblog

CATHODE RAY CLOCK

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

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

TECHNO BAROQUE

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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

LOW ENERGY HIGH STYLE

Friday, July 25th, 2008

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.

R.I.P. ALARM CLOCK

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

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

iDIAL

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

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

RE:VISION

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

These bangles made from old lens parts are really interesting and available at Oyemodern.
via notcot.org

WIREPOD

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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.

via Dezeen

SOLAR ROOF TILES

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

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 [...]

GUNS FOR GIRLS

Friday, December 28th, 2007

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 [...]