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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.

More people now use their phones to wake them up than their alarm clocks, The Birmingham Post reports
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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.
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These bangles made from old lens parts are really interesting and available at Oyemodern.
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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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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 [...]

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 [...]

We like the Wenge Series by Jason Linde.

We thought all the low energy bulbs we saw were boring, you’d only ever put on up to ‘help.’ So Hulger tried to make a nice one, one you might actually want to have around, one which might inspire the design community to come up some inspiring and wonderful ideas to create beautiful and desirable [...]

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