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Crayon-Inspired String Cheese

By Paperstone on 27 August 2012 in Fun, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Crayon-Inspired String Cheese

How to make string cheese more appetising? Package it like colourful crayons of course. As start of term approaches, Crayola and Kraft have teamed up for a back-to-school promotion, marrying the perfect match of stationery and cheese. ‘Crayola Crayon String Cheese’ is packaged in Crayola’s familiar colours with each string of cheese wrapped in the […]

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Calling Cards for the Concrete Jungle

By Paperstone on 27 August 2012 in Paper with 0 Comments
Calling Cards for the Concrete Jungle

Employees of French creative agency Murmure can wow their prospective clients with these concrete business cards. The cards come with their own miniature shipping pallettes. “Playing with the notion of scales, Murmure created a set of business cards made of concrete. This material, so characteristic of our environment, was enhanced by using the smallest and […]

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Paperless Text in Analogue

By Paperstone on 25 August 2012 in Paper, Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Paperless Text in Analogue

In an age when text is both ubiquitous and utterly ephemeral – cf. emails, Twitter and SMS messaging – artist Annie Vought seeks to reclaim the importance of the “tangible handwritten letter.” She enlarges written documents she has found, received or written herself and, with a very sharp knife and a lot of time, cuts […]

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Drunk on Data Underload

By Paperstone on 22 August 2012 in Computer Supplies with 0 Comments
Drunk on Data Underload

Need a change from beermats and dull household coasters on which to sit your beverage? Think that today’s USB sticks can hold far too much data and pine for the days when you needed a computer the size of a house to calculate the square root of two? Perhaps you need some Floppy Disk Coasters. […]

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Tongue-Wagging Britain

By Paperstone on 22 August 2012 in Office Workers with 0 Comments
Tongue-Wagging Britain

The average office worker spends an average 27 minutes and 27 seconds a day gossiping with colleagues, according to a recent survey. The poll of 2,000 office workers, commissioned by Mars Drinks Office Connections, also found that HR professionals are “the worst for personal chat in the office,” spending more time chatting with colleagues about […]

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Robotic Whiteboard Eraser

By Paperstone on 20 August 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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My Computer Smells!

By Paperstone on 15 August 2012 in Computer Supplies with 0 Comments
My Computer Smells!

The Aroma Style USB Stick is a scent diffuser which you can plug into your computer’s USB port. Unfortunately the USB stick does not function as a data storage device, but it does the smell of your choice into your office environment – you simply add a drop or two of scented oil on a […]

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What Does Pretentiousness Smell Like?

By Paperstone on 15 August 2012 in Books & Pads with 0 Comments
What Does Pretentiousness Smell Like?

A perfume has been launched that makes wearers smell like “freshly printed books.” Paper Passion is a fragrance by Geza Schoen in association with publisher Gerhard Steidl and iconic design mag WallPaper*. Karl Lagerfeld and Steidl provide packaging. “The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world,” says Karl Lagerfeld. […]

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Giant Colour Pencil Tree

By Paperstone on 13 August 2012 in Pens & Pencils with 0 Comments
Giant Colour Pencil Tree

Artist Dave Rittinger has proposed a public art installation in North Philadelphia city park involving giant stationery. Entitled ‘Color Pencil Tree’, the branches morph into large, roughly hewn coloured pencils. Says Rittinger, “My work is often playful, colorful and incorporates a sort of metaphorical blending of objects and function, so the fact that pencils are […]

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“Chemputer” Holds Promise of Downloadable Pharmaceuticals

By Paperstone on 8 August 2012 in Printers & Fax Machines with 0 Comments
“Chemputer” Holds Promise of Downloadable Pharmaceuticals

In the not so distant future, it may be possible for people equipped with a with a special 3-D printer to print prescription drugs at home. Such is the idea of Professor Lee Cronin of Glasgow University, much of whose work focuses on synthesising complex inorganic molecules. The “chemputer” is at the conception stage at […]

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