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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

Chinese artist Ma Jun brings us some beautiful porcelain electronics.
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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 [...]

We are feeling a special kind of love for Chris Kabel’s Porcelain Kettle
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We’re not interested in all retro technology at Hulger. But we do like this keyboard and LCD monitor from Steampunk. Beautiful to look at, beautifully made and has an integrity that moves it from a gimmick to something truly desirable.

These cellphone mods we found on Make are interesting.

These postcards from the early 20th century predicting technology in the year 2000 might seem old fashioned on the surface but they are a actually pretty accurate.

One minute telephone conversations embroidered into ‘home sweet home’ frames by artist Louisa Bufardeci.
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“Function fatigue” was the No. 1 complaint of mobile phone users, according to the survey of 15,000 consumers in 37 countries. Read article on PSFK