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5 Tools To Make Going Back To The Office Suck Less

The weather’s good. You’ve been outdoors, active, having fun, eating well. Now you’re back in your sterile, loveless office. Here are a few tools to make the transition back slightly less brutal.

August 15, 2011
Gadgets

Variable-Width Plastic Eraser Is Great For People Still Using Pencils

It’s called the Kokuyo Mirikeshi Variable-Width Eraser, it can erase with five different edge widths (6mm, 5mm, 4mm, 3mm and a point) and I wish I had it when I was at school. [White Rabbit Express via Book of Joe]

July 28, 2011
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Is It Wrong To Crave A Big Box Of Dual-Ended Pantone Markers?

If it’s wrong, well, I don’t want to be right. Though what I would like is $US483 and the nerve to actually buy this box of 150 Pantone reference colour pens. You can buy them in packs as little as 12, but where’s the fun there? [DickBlick via Werd]

June 23, 2011
Gadgets

You Mean To Tell Me Date Staplers Don’t Exist Yet?

What gives, office supplies manufacturers of the world? This will cut back on so much office management that three secretaries could probably be let go for every date-stapler welcomed into the supplies cabinet. [Gonglue Jiang via Yanko Design]

June 16, 2011
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Bring This Ruler To A Rubber Band Fight

Classroom warfare is tough. You have teachers hounding your stash, cute girls to impress, punk kids coming up with punkier ways to punk you – basically a lot to worry about. That’s why you need this rubberband shooting ruler.

May 26, 2011
Gadgets

Takumi’s Bridge Turns Any Bin Into A Shredder

You don’t have to chuck your $US500 Eames bin (into another bin?) when you purchase a new shredder, if it’s Takumi’s shredder bridge. Placed over any receptacle, the battery-powered shredder is perfect for small offices. [Takumi via DesignBoom]

May 12, 2011
Gadgets

Bring Snail Mail Unto The 21st Century With Recordable Envelopes

Oh, so you still send snail mail? Boobytrap envelopes by recording 10-second-long messages on these rewritable talking envelopes, which cost $US4.75 for a 10-pack. Be sure to address them in pencil only, though! [SoundExpression via RedFerret]

May 3, 2011
Gadgets

The Turtle Pen Is Possibly The Only Interesting Pen

Pens! Pens! PENS! Excited? No, of course not, because when was the last time a pen was remotely interesting? Here’s a nice exception to the rule: Turtle’s “SNAPback” pens expose their tips with a pistol-like cocking action (so much innuendo!)

April 25, 2011
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You Can Store More Ink In These Spiral Ballpoint Pens

From the pages of “my-god-it’s-so-simple-why-didn’t-I-do-that-first” comes these spiral ballpoint pens, which hold double the amount of ink in their tightly spiralled coils. But let’s do the maths. Are these going to save our fine planet from drowning in landfill? Let’s look:

April 19, 2011
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Pencils Can Be Hip And Fun Too

I spied Gizmodo’s Joe Brown using these blue and red pencils, and immediately wondered where they came from. Turns out they’re “Slang Pencils” from Greenwich Letterpress, and they come with 90′s era sayings like ‘Mad Props’ and ‘Off the Hook’. I don’t know about you but I like my writing tools to be as retro cool as possible. $US8 for an eight-pack. [Greenwich Letterpress]

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