Staple City’s a Towering Metropolis of Desk Organization

Put aside those depressing thoughts that your job actually needs a way to organize staples with this tiny cityscape snowglobe that’s an adorable way to store your office supplies. It’s certainly no Swingline, but the $20 Staple City includes a compact stapler and a base that turns your extra stacks of staples into tiny skyscrapers. [Animi Causa] More »

9 Insanely Clever Sticky Notes

When you’re trapped in a boring nine-to-five job you’ll embrace anything that helps make the work week slightly less awful. Colorful staplers, video games on your calculator, and sticky notes shaped like anything and everything but a boring yellow square. Here’s some of the best. More »

Take That, Duct Tape: Scotch Tape Turned Into Tiny Robotic Claw

It’s not going to replace the claw that snatches prizes in the machine at your local arcade. But this tiny scotch tape gripper could one day provide a cheap and low-tech way for autonomous vehicles to snatch samples. And you thought duct tape was the king of adhesives. More »

Pac-Man Paper Clips Bring a Glimmer of Whimsy To Your Soul-Crushing Office Gig

When you’re walled-in by cubicles all day long, anything can be a welcome distraction from your mundane employment. It doesn’t matter if it’s stupid cat videos, frustrating flash games, or colorful paper clips shaped like Pac-Man characters. More »

This Electro-Powered Bulletin Board Holds Your Stuff Without Tacks or Tape

Borrowing technology from plotter-type printers, this Justick bulletin board uses electrical energy flowing across its surface to create Coulomb Forces that attract lightweight objects. And they don’t have to be metal. Everything from documents, to fabrics, to even DVDs will stick without the need for tape, thumbtacks, or staples. More »

Here’s Hoping These Clever Paperclip Headphones Don’t Sound Like Crap

Most office drones assume paperclips can only be used with stacks of documents. But somewhere out there, someone has realized that the clipping power of paper clips could keep control of an annoying headphone cable—and now we have a brilliant solution for wrangling earbud wires. More »

Memopads and Desk Organizers Were Meant To Be Together

Before you get too excited about this brilliant desk accessory that provides a place to jot notes while organizing your various writing implements, you need to know it has a very dark secret: it’s expensive. Like unjustifiably crazy expensive for what is essentially a stack of paper. More »

Who’d Have Thought You’d Ever Lust After a Tape Dispenser?

It’s not often something as mundane as a tape dispenser is worth a second glance. But then again, most of the office supplies on your desk weren’t created by one of Alessi’s talented designers. The Filo is as minimal as tape dispensers can get, and that’s what makes it beautiful. More »

No One Will Touch Your Colored Pencils Stored in a Gutted Fish

Worried about your schoolyard chums pinching your colored pencils (you know, those pre-touchscreen graphite writing implements) from your desk? By stashing them in a dead gutted mackerel you’re all but guaranteed no one’s going to lay a finger on them. And probably guaranteed a trip to the principal’s office too. More »

Animal-Shaped Office Supplies Come With a Bite [Daily Desired]

We thought Office supplies were just about the blandest thing we could talk about. And that statement held true until we laid eyes on these ferocious staple removers from JacZagoory. More »