Gizmodo: hulger

Hulger's Maple and Brass Pappa*Phone: Skypin' With Wood

John Mahoney — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:00:00 EDT

These great-looking handmade VoIP handsets, designed by Hulger, are individually handcrafted to order out of solid American maple by Furni in Montreal. They'll work with all the usual VoIP and chat apps via USB on PC and Mac for $300. Is wood the new glossy white plastic? I kind of hope so, cause when done right, it's beautiful. MoCo Loco has a nice look inside the factory, if you want to see the giant solid block of wood that will be your Pappa*Phone's, er, daddy.

More factory shots at Moco Loco. [Moco Loco, Hulger via BBG]

Compact Florescent Light Bulbs, Gone Crazy

Charlie White — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:45:00 EST

Compact fluorescent bulbs get more popular every day because of their energy-saving characteristics, but their conventional corkscrew/spring design leaves something to be desired. Enter Hulger, a bunch of British designers with a bent for the unusual, who have bent those tubes around into crazy configurations, making something that once appeared rather prosaic into an artform. You're looking at a prototype of the spaghetti-like bulb, and we're all hoping to see a shipping version before too long. Now if they can just make them instant-on and light 'em up with a warm color temperature of 2700 Kelvin, they'll really be onto something. [Core 77]

Hulger's Ziricote Wooden Phone

Jason Chen — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:38 EST

Not as ghetto as the big Wooden Scony cellphones found in Mozambique, these HULGER phones are actually made of wood as a luxury thing. Constructed out of African Ziricote hardwood, which is usually used for decorative objects, the phone has its own wooden box and comes with a case of wax so you can wax your phone. That's not a euphemism folks.

Fortunately, this is only one of a kind and available for £2000 ($3885) from the Digital Wellbeing Showroom or direct from HULGER. – Jason Chen

Product Site [Hulger]

ZIRICOTE WOODEN PHONE [Hulger]

Holger PIP: Exotic Special Edition VOIP Phones

Brian Lam — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:42:17 EDT

At London's Fashion Week, Hulger teamed up with Bill Amberg to dress up their phone line in exotic animal hides like watersnake skin and the leather ripped from a still live baby cow. Exquisite luxury takes pain, people.

The phones being remixed include the rotary-type handset Penelope, and the PIP skype-compatible phones, available in phone cord and Bluetooth models. Jump to the leather bound Penelope.–Brian Lam

Holger Exotic VOIP Phones [Via Josh at Coolhunting]