It was formed from Pokia after a trademark dispute with Nokia by Nicolas Roope and Michael-George Hemus.
The company founded on the idea of old telephone handsets plugged into cellphones but soon diversified, adding voice over IP applications.
The company founded in London, England in 2005 after extensive media coverage of its previous incarnation Pokia, a prototype project dating back to its inception in 2002.
In 2007 Hulger launched the Plumen project, an alternative design concept challenging the lack of diversity in CFL, or low-energy light bulbs.
The first Plumen concept and working prototype of the CFL bulb was included in MoMA New York's permanent design collection in 2008.