If you’ve been holding out for a price drop on the PAPPA*PHONE then here it is

150USD, down from 300USD as we sell through the original batch made by Furni in Montreal, Canada from sustainable American Walnut

Go to the PAPPA*PHONE SALE >

We’re very pleased that the PAPPA*PHONE made the cut in GQ’s “Best Stuff of The Year” 2008 list. HULGER appears alongside Herman Miller, Alessi, Mercedes and Ibérico Ham in this year’s line up.

We’re very happy to present our brand new PAPPA*PHONE, the world’s first wooden VoIP phone. Made from sustainable American walnut and brass, the PAPPA* is HULGER’s first new phone design for almost three years.

PAPPA* is hand crafted in Canada by Furni from one piece of wood, so that the rich, natural grain can be seen to flow from the handset to the base, interrupted only by the solid band of brass that covers and compensates for the material lost in the cutting process.

Not a single button is found on the slender, angular form. The reason? You don’t need one. The computer interface of a mouse, screen and keyboard can manage the call much better than a fiddly on-phone button constellation. Skype’s MAC or PC software interface is a lot more efficient than the usual clunky VoIP-phone screen menus. That’s why we’ve cut out everything apart from the fundamental phone function, that of speaking and listening. Without the need for buttons the materiality and form can sing.

Like all HULGER products, the PAPPA* has been designed to “wear in” not “wear out.” The materials selected can be continually restored so that the phone becomes more individual and personal with age.

HULGER launched the ZIRICOTE* concept design made from an African wood of the same name in 2006. The design received a very warm reception which spurred us on to create the PAPPA, a design more suited to production.

The PAPPA* is now available to order from our online store at Hulgershop . Visit the site for prices in your region / currency. We now ship from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.

Sit back in the comfort of your computer chair and enjoy Hulger in glorious 3D. With the aid of a piece of A4 card it’s like Hulger’s sitting on your lap. All at www.hulger.tv

Our inbox has often pinged with requests from disc jockeys seeking old-school Hulger handsets to switch with their all too common headphones. All we ever needed was a special DJ adaptor which we’ve now sourced. Simply plug your wired Hulger handset in and you’re ready to monitor

Pictured are the lovely Brokenhearts girls who were appointed the official DJ-adaptor-testing-team. Four thumbs up from them so the product is now available to buy in The Hulger Shop

We’re in the process of planning new Hulger products and would love your help. All you need to do is fill out this one page questionnaire. It will help us work out what to do next and may also be useful in a few conversations with investors, bank managers etc.

Thanks

Some shots from the Design And The Elastic Mind Show at MOMA in NYC. Both the phones and Plumen bulb concept made it into the show alongside what looks like a fascinating and thought provoking collection.

Thanks Glen Jackson Taylor for the images

The HULGER SALE is now on

Design and the Elastic Mind at MOMA New York runs from February 24–May 12 and features amongst other things Hulger’s Plumen CFL and a selection of our phone designs. The show is curated by the illustrious Paola Antonelli

From the show’s synopsis:

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance. One of design’s most fundamental tasks is to stand between revolutions and life, and to help people deal with change.

We made some demo videos with our friend Tomoko to show how you can use Hulger’s various product combinations. Here they are