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You can’t buy time

You can’t buy time

Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]

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Paperstone’s guide to office moves – top tips for expanding and relocating

Paperstone’s guide to office moves – top tips for expanding and relocating

An office move can be great for a business if it’s handled well and carefully considered. Here at Paperstone we’re part way through our own move into a larger space, so the following is based on our own very recent experience! If you’re planning to expand or relocate your office, read our top tips for […]

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Make a Vision Board in 2015

By Paperstone on January 28, 2015 in Fun, Office Life, Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments
Make a Vision Board in 2015

Did you make New Year resolutions only to break them after the first week or two? Don’t despair – try making a vision board instead! A vision board is a visual tool to represent your dreams, your career and business goals, and the life you’d love to live. It helps you to focus your subconscious […]

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Which Are Better – Blackboards or Whiteboards?

By Paperstone on July 11, 2014 in Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments
Which Are Better – Blackboards or Whiteboards?

Academics are taking sides over an issue of life or death. Is the old fashioned blackboard better than the newer and trendier whiteboard? It’s not a black or white issue – there are all sorts of opinions across the board. Traditional slate boards have elegance, and are becoming popular with home interior designers as well […]

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Blue Mondays

By Paperstone on April 22, 2013 in Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments
Blue Mondays

The phenomenon of ‘Blue Mondays’ is familiar to most people who work in an office – after the joy of being free to pursue our own personal interests over the weekend, many of us feel let down by the prospect of another week at our desks. So what can we do to make our lives […]

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Robotic Whiteboard Eraser

By Paperstone on August 20, 2012 in Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments

Two Cornell University students have created an autonomous whiteboard ersaser from batteries, circuitry and LEGO. Le Zhang’s and Michael Lathrop’s robot uses magnets to stick to the board and two motors to move across. It navigates to the top left corner and systematically cleans from there.

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Wiped To Memory

By Paperstone on March 29, 2012 in Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments
Wiped To Memory

The Erascan whiteboard eraser, described over at Yanko Design, is a whiteboard cleaner that commits to memory that which it erases. The Erascan scans the scribbles and notes on a whiteboard and saves the images to a memory chip, so that digital copies of notes, etc. can be kept for future reference. The device is […]

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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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Morbid Messaging

By Paperstone on July 19, 2011 in Whiteboards / Notice Boards with 0 Comments
Morbid Messaging

If you want a message to get noticed, what better way of leaving it than on a facsimile of a skull? Chalkboard skulls are now available for about £25 from iamhome at Etsy. The skulls are made from plastic, porcelain and enamel chalkboard paint and come in a range of perky colours including pine green, […]

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