This gold plated sculpture was created by artist Yogi Proctor. In case you’re wondering – no, it doesn’t actually make copies.
Office Supplies
This “Bandit” ruler by Sebastian Bergne is cleverly designed as both a ruler and a weapon that will fire rubber bands – giving you the upper hand in cubicle battles, while simultaneously helping you waste time and office supplies.
Product Page: (£19, or about $30 via Dezeen via Gizmodo)
There’s no doubt that most people would prefer sitting on their asses all day playing Minecraft rather than working, but when that’s out of the question, you can still do the next best thing and get office supplies with a Minecraft theme. For example, this 600 page, 3†x 3†x 3†pad of sticky notes will reveal textured cracks as you peel away each note, but without an inventory or any of that pesky cobblestone residue. It’s also an officially licensed Minecraft product – if that means anything to those of us who aren’t profiting from it.
Product Page: ($9.99)
A manager and a former employee of a Kent, WA, Office Depot have been charged with stealing more than $2.1 million in ink and toner supplies from the location since 2007, which they allegedly sold on eBay. The store installed cameras, which caught the manager carrying ink cartridges out to a former employee who was waiting in the parking lot.
The former O.D. staffer was arrested with $6,750 of stolen store goods in his vehicle. He told police that the pair had earned at least $500K by reselling the pilfered products on eBay.
Police indicate that the actual amount was likely much higher, as that man’s PayPal account had received more than $1 million since the thefts began. The pair is believed to have sold stolen laptops, cameras and other electronics as well.
(SeattlePI via The Consumerist)
Keep on top of your business and relieve boredom on the job with these Tetris-style “block notes”. Best of all, you get to select the blocks you need when you need them – a winner every time.
Product Page: (£7.50 via Holycool)
Spring is here, which is as good a reason as any for us to give away a big box full of gadget goodies. Continue reading after the break to check out the full breakdown of all the gadgets in the bundle and all the details you need to enter.
Just looking at these mysterious Star Wars Moleskine notebooks is surely enough to make nerd hearts palpitate, but there doesn’t seem to be any pricing or availability information just yet – but they are apparently on the way.
UPDATE: The notebooks are now up on the Moleskine site priced between $15 and $20. Still no word on a release date.
(Instagram via CrunchGear)
This Pinetti Quattrogiga Leather journal combines the worlds of digital and analog by offering a genuine leather refillable notebook which is held closed by a detachable silicone strap with a 4 gigabyte USB drive at its end. The journal is handmade in Italy, comes in two sizes and can be personalized with embossing.
Check out some additional images after the break.
In addition to being an office staple, scotch tape is also a boredom-battling artistic medium and a miracle substance that will allow you to peer through frosted glass. You can use it to create “casts” of objects, or awesome freeform sculptures such as those shown above, which were entered in Scotch’s “Off the Roll” tape sculpture competition held earlier this year.
Check out the videos after the break to see the sticky stuff in action.
There are many methods of wiping data off a CD, but if you want to insure that it is gone—and I mean REALLY insure it—hit it up with 150,000 volts.
“One enterprising individual has created the most secure way to wipe out Compact Discs, by using a step-up transformer and creating a 150,000 Volt pd, whilst a CD rotates in the middle. The sparks arc through the metal in the CD and evaporates it, ripping it all off as the CD rotates. The CD is rendered transparent and unreadable. This may be the most secure method to remove data on conventional recordable CDs used in offices.”
Check out the video after the break. And don’t try putting your CD in a microwave—even if it does create a spectacular light show.
