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Space Junk Solution: Lasers

By Paperstone on 24 March 2011 in Janitorial, Presentation Equipment with 0 Comments
Space Junk Solution: Lasers

In addition to artificial satellites and the Moon, the Earth is orbited by man-made space debris, a collection of objects including anything from spent rocket stages and defunct satellites to collision fragments and astronaut pee. Some 3,000 still useful communications satellites orbit the Earth while the US military tracks about 20,000 pieces of space junk. […]

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Printer Sales Boost

By Paperstone on 23 March 2011 in Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments
Printer Sales Boost

Sales figures for printers and copiers are the most encouraging they have been since 2007, according to data from research firm IDC. Sales in the last three months of 2010 were up seven percent on the same period in 2009. Multifunction printers increased their share of the market to 67 percent while inkjet printers remained […]

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The Death of Everyday Office Supplies?

The Death of Everyday Office Supplies?

Everyday office objects such as waste bins, personal diaries and calculators face extinction, according to Real Business, a publication for entrepreneurs. Their recently published list of the top ten “most endangered” office products was compiled by e-commerce firm Pixmania-pro and based on current and historical sales data. The increasing ubiquity of smartphones and pressures on […]

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Watch A Microwave Blow Up

By Paperstone on 20 March 2011 in Catering, Fun with 0 Comments

As a species, we’re not that keen on being blown up. But many of us do quite like watching explosions. Boing Boing informs us that a certain Tesla 500 likes to blow up old microwaves, partly, we are told, to harvest some of their parts but also, surely, to revel in the aesthetics of destruction. […]

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Are They Taking Us For Mugs?

By Paperstone on 18 March 2011 in Catering with 0 Comments
Are They Taking Us For Mugs?

A commemorative mug celebrating the upcoming wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William has confused mug enthusiasts by featuring a picture of Wills’ brother Harry instead of the second in line to the throne. The mug is the work of Guandong enterprises and costs £9.99. Guandong describes the mug as, “A beautiful cup to commemorate […]

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The Emperor’s New Book

By Paperstone on 16 March 2011 in Books & Pads with 0 Comments
The Emperor’s New Book

A book filled with blank pages has become a surprise bestseller hit. The 200-page What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex is “written” by Oxford University graduate Sheridan Simove and has proved popular with students following heavy promotion in student unions across Britain. The book costs £4.69 and is selling as a novelty notebook. […]

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A Monkey Typing Shakespeare – The Odds

By Paperstone on 14 March 2011 in Computer Supplies, Keyboards, Office Machines & Supplies with 0 Comments

Watch this video for a lesson in probability. A genial professor asks, What are the odds that a monkey tapping away at a typewriter keyboard its whole life would type, “To be or not to be”? ”That is the question,” jokes the professor and we are told that a monkey typing three characters a second […]

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Another Office Lost-It

By Paperstone on 13 March 2011 in Filing & Archiving, Fun, Office Desks with 0 Comments

Another office worker goes violent on stationery as everyday Paper-pushing toil becomes too much for a mentalist divorced from job satisfaction. Filing seems to be an issue. The CCTV-captured tantrum begins with our hero hitting a colleague over the head with a ring binder, seemingly unprovoked. He then throws his computer monitor across a desk […]

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An Office Lost-It

The <PrtScn> function takes on new meaning as a wound-up rusty spring of an office worker tussles with a photocopier toner cartridge and gets sprayed with its ink powder. Avenging seemingly not only this outrage but existential injustice in general, the man tears his computer monitor from his workstation and places it screen down on […]

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Inky Nightmare on the Highway

By Paperstone on 11 March 2011 in Ink Cartridges And Toners with 0 Comments
Inky Nightmare on the Highway

Five hundred feet of roadway was closed overnight and needed to be replaced after a truck containing commercial printer ink cartridges rolled over and left a colourful, inky mess on a ramp between Route 128 and Interstate 95 near Boston. The accident saw several hundred gallons of ink spill onto the highway. Some 16,000 pounds […]

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