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A Trip to the Sellotape Factory

By Paperstone on November 1, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments

Did you know that ordinary sticky tape emits x-rays when you peel it off the roll? The effect is a manifestation of triboluminescence – the phenomenon of light being emitted when some compounds, including sugar, are crushed. It just so happens that the disruption of the sticky tape adhesive molecular bonds results in an emission […]

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Headless Corporate Clones Get Board

By Paperstone on August 31, 2011 in Desktop Essentials, Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments
Headless Corporate Clones Get Board

Pinhead Push Pins are little suited figures with pins for heads. Apt to leave your noticeboard strewn with tiny decapitated plastic corporate types and looking like a Jake and Dinos Chapman take on the business world, Pinhead Push Pins may or may not be used to critique late capitalism, depending on the proclivities of the […]

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Grassy Desk Tidy Lifts Office Blues

By Paperstone on June 10, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Grassy Desk Tidy Lifts Office Blues

Crafted from wood and natural bristles, the Pratonzolo is a grassy desk organiser which can lend a bit a bit of colour green and order to a monotone plastic-cluttered desk. The Pratonzolo is designed by Max Battaglia and Matteo Mocchi of the design studios Givingshape and BBMds for Italian company Stylemylife. This desk tidy will […]

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X-Wing Fighter Made from Office Supplies

By Paperstone on May 22, 2011 in Desktop Essentials, Fun, Pencils & Accessories, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
X-Wing Fighter Made from Office Supplies

Transform your dead office supplies into a Star Wars X-wing fighter using a spent Sharpie marker pen, foldback clips, a strip of staples, a pencil sharpener and some pen lids. Full ingredients and instructions over at Instructables. Reflect on how it all went wrong. Via Boing Boing.

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Search For Martian Life Compromised By Duct Tape

By Paperstone on May 1, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Search For Martian Life Compromised By Duct Tape

The NASA equivalent of duct tape could complicate the search for life on Mars. Astrobiologists found evidence for plumes of methane flowing from beneath the surface of Mars. Methane – on Earth, principally a byproduct of life – itself might indicate Martian life. The next Mars rover, called Mars Science Laboratory or Curiosity, will launch […]

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Gold-plated Staples

By Paperstone on April 18, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Gold-plated Staples

Sup G? Picture this, yo. You wid yo boys at yo crib, smokin’ indo, sippin’ on gin and juice. Got fine ladies in the living room gettin’ it on and they ain’t leaving ‘til six in the mornin’. But then you remember – you haven’t collated the ten copies of your marketing proposals for Q3 […]

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Super Glue Inventor Dies

By Paperstone on April 4, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Super Glue Inventor Dies

Harry Wesley Coover, American inventor of super-strong adhesive Super Glue, died on 26th March 2011 at the age of 94. Super Glue was discovered accidentally while Coover was researching polymers for jet canopies at Kodak. While the cyanoacrylates he was experimenting with were rejected for being too sticky, Coover recognised their potential as extra-strong adhesives. […]

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Giant Paper Clip Wall Hook

By Paperstone on April 4, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Giant Paper Clip Wall Hook

The Giant Paper Clip Wall Hook is the ideal gift for a hat-wearing office supplies enthusiast. If you like your Paperclips big and your hat stands stationery-themed, fork out $12.99 to Think Geek. They ship to the UK.

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Paperstone Gets Patent for “Hapler”

By Paperstone on March 31, 2011 in Desktop Essentials with 0 Comments
Paperstone Gets Patent for “Hapler”

The Hapler: Pioneering office supplies Paperstone have been awarded its first ever patent – for an all-in-one device which both staples and punches holes in Paper. This stapler/hole punch hybrid is still in a prototype phase, but already “The Hapler” is exciting design experts and office supplies industry pundits alike. WallPaper called it, “an archetypal […]

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March 28th is “Fill Staplers Day”!

By Paperstone on March 25, 2011 in Desktop Essentials, Fun with 0 Comments
March 28th is “Fill Staplers Day”!

Every occasional stapler user knows the crushing despair evoked when trying to staple something only to discover your stapler has run out of staples. In matters as important as this, the Dull Men’s Club is a step ahead of the rest of us. To counter Empty Stapler Syndrone they have designated two days each year […]

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