Hulger's PAPPA*PHONE luxury Skype handset could turn your life around

You're such a sleaze on Skype, with that janky headset you bought five years ago to play Counter-Strike making indentations in your unwashed hair. You're not impressing anyone, especially not your four cats. What you need is the Hulger PAPPA*PHONE, a hand crafted Skype handset forged from walnut, brass and pure classiness. Just $300, and we all know you spent that much of your mom's money last month on Cheetos alone. You're good for it.

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[Omar Khafagy @ Sep 14th 2008 4:18AM]

Really? For real? A wooden Skype Phone?

Please oh please tell me that they have an optional ringtone that declares "You've Got Wood" with every incoming call.

[David L. Heritage @ Sep 15th 2008 1:56PM]

Instead of using a ringtone or vocal cue - when you "have wood" - you already know it...

[Lukasz @ Sep 14th 2008 4:24AM]

uuu. My wood is vibrating. Sorry but i have to 'answer it'!

[Vektor7 @ Sep 14th 2008 4:29AM]

I imagine having Terminex in your Fav Five will be a must...

[David L. Heritage @ Sep 15th 2008 1:55PM]

Chad says: Come and get your love...

[Dxw @ Sep 14th 2008 4:46AM]

Question completely irrelevant to this topic.
Are neutral comments not as dark as they used to be as well? It feels like I've been swimming in a pool of pure chlorine all day.

[ScooterDe @ Sep 14th 2008 7:29AM]

Even highly ranked comments can be hard on the eyes. Engadget proves that comments can be even more busted.

[Wwhat @ Sep 14th 2008 9:28AM]

They use an opacity range of 20, 40, 80 and 90.

[i.c. weiner @ Sep 14th 2008 4:49PM]

yeah, i noticed it too. Come on engadget, i enjoyed reading the low ranked comments and watching the subsequent insults.

[thebigDallas @ Sep 15th 2008 12:14AM]

yeah they should change it up a little, how about making the highest ranked bold font, and then highly ranked regular darkness and then go down the line

[deyanimay @ Sep 14th 2008 4:57AM]

PSP Skype ftw.

[Giorgos @ Sep 14th 2008 5:15AM]

OMG, it looks like a coffin... it's horrible.

[TareX @ Sep 14th 2008 5:19AM]

It looks very innovative, but at times like these I'd choose function over form. It's good for offices where portability is not an issue. But again design isn't an issue there either.

[atheos @ Sep 14th 2008 6:01AM]

FYI, the word "pappa" means grandfather in Finnish which kind of fits the product (also notice the photo of an old lady on the company's site). Coincidence or what? The product itself appears to be Canadian.

[Wwhat @ Sep 14th 2008 9:39AM]

Means daddy in some other languages, not sure what it means in danish and the company mentions danish although it seems located in britain.

[rita hainsworth @ Sep 14th 2008 6:15AM]

Shop Class anyone?

[Steve Bryce @ Sep 14th 2008 6:45AM]

Wood is so under used in electronic, where are wooden computers, wooden mobile phones?

[BigD145 @ Sep 14th 2008 12:41PM]

They exist, but you have to make them yourself. I'm still looking for an old wood and brass 30's handset to put my bluetooth headset into.

[Mike @ Sep 14th 2008 8:22AM]

Me Want

[bartoron @ Sep 14th 2008 9:05AM]

Only $300 on Cheetos? That's not that much.

[Cybergypsy @ Sep 14th 2008 9:56AM]

Wood U??? I hate wood in BMW's

[Cybergypsy @ Sep 14th 2008 10:00AM]

LOL..... no trees were harmed ...

[Ricardo @ Sep 14th 2008 11:00AM]

Ergonomics anyone?

[fdawg4l @ Sep 14th 2008 11:51AM]

What's wrong with having cats?

[lorddshadow @ Sep 14th 2008 3:34PM]

eww. shouldn't this be in the crapgadget article?

[gizmodoisbetter @ Sep 15th 2008 12:53AM]

gizmodo posted this like a week ago, i know you guys over here like to rip them off all their posts, but could you at least try and keep up?

[David L. Heritage @ Sep 15th 2008 1:56PM]

The only way that this could be better is if it were made of RED bakelite, with a bright flashing red light in the center of the dialer (phone dial missing) hub with an ominous sounding buzzer. All of this would have to sit underneath a glass "cake" dome - in order to look really cool.