Want to isolate yourself in your office environment without hurting feeling of others (our workmate or friends)? This Efi Office Space Divider by Matheiu Servais should be a great idea.

It could be install into any office desk, and if you are the boss, you can save money from getting a space divider where you can actually see what’s your crews are working at (or playing at).

Efi Space Divider is like a big lamp shade. All you have to do is to pull the handle to lower it down to your body so people will not disturb you unless it’s important.

Efi is the result of an important user study, where I became conscious of today’s troubles that employees are dealing with in “open space” offices. It consists of a connected space divider which enables office employees to isolate themselves when they need to focus. Lowering down the ring enables them to isolate from physical noise (visual and phonic) but also from digital noise by filtering data receipt (e-mails, phone calls, instant messages…)

More information is available at Mathieu Servais personal website.

Efi Space Divider Helps You Say “Get The F#&% Away From My Desk” Politely
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A Taiwan designer called Sung-Ching Chang has come up with a range of interesting office accessories made with concrete. He is a student of the Birmingham city university who have submitted his designs to the BIAD Master’s product design program.

His designs which has been called as “Reconstruction” is taking the ordinary office accessories like calculator, pen holder, stapler and tape dispenser into something better by using a concrete bases.

I’m pretty interested with his calculator and stapler design because it has got an unique and interactive remake. Unlike any ordinary stapler, Sung-Ching Chang has added a special marking to show emotions. The staple will act as the mouth, while the marking above the staple can be adjusted to show different emotions.

Take a look at the following video for more details of the Reconstruction Office Accessories:

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Concrete Office Accessories By Sung-Ching Chang
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People who work in the document department are an avid document destruction artists as they are often to destroy, or the much better vocab to use – shredding papers more than anyone in the company. If you are by chance, working in this environment, you might have brought one of the paper shredding habits back you your home and obviously you’ll face yourself with your own paper shredder machine that will take care of your own document destruction tasks.

Well, we are not taking about the big size paper shredders that will cost thousands here. I do hope that someone will not make such a heavy investment for their home usage, because there are lots of paper shredder that cost lower than hundred bucks that will do its jobs well.

As for as paper shredder, recently Designboom has announced one cool design called “Bridge” from one tenth (warning, this flash site is kind of annoying), which is a kind of portable paper shredder. If you have been dreaming for a portable, compact and easy document shredder, this shredder Bridge might a perfect match for you.

Paper shredder Bridge has a narrowing body where you can use it on different sizes of rubbish bin as a sort of ‘bridge’, like the above image suggested. Simply put into at the top of the rubbish bin, push a button and insert a paper to destroy. no need to hand crank or hamster laboring to get the jobs done. I notice this shredder bridge is kind of fun with the nice little icons above the shredder’s mouth that gives warning to not inserting any neckties, paperclips, gloves or name tag.

Beside the portability, Bridge paper shredder has another beautiful feature. Instead of having annoying long power cord linking to the AC outlet, this Bridge is self-powered with four batteries. Cableless, cable hassle-free means better room arrangement because you don’t really have to keep the paper shredder near the outlet power all the time.

Of course, in term of power, I believe this Bridge paper shredder is not as fast and powerful as the corded model. But think about the portability and convenience alone has worth the little wait when shredding papers (unless you have bunch of them in the queue!).

Sadly, even it’s a 2010 product design, there is no news when/where we can get it online. The status marked on one tenth website is “coming soon”, but how long exactly we have to wait is still a question.

[one Tenth(crowded Flash website) via DesignBoom]

Paper Shredder Bridge – Compact And Easy Paper Shredding Solution
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The long wait on the shredder machine when trying to dispose lots of documents securely has ended. Say Hello To Stack-and-Shred, the new paper shredder machine that will certainly eliminate your waiting time. Swingline’s Stack-And-Shred can shred 100 pieces of papers continuously and automatically without stop.

Over at the storage, Swingline Stack-And-Shred can hold up to 5 gallons of paper shards, and that is certainly amazing volume where you don’t have to empty the storage too often.

Swingline Stack-And-Shred paper shredder machine is available for $250 per unit. If your office has spare petty cash left, you should ask your purchasing department to get one for you.

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Swingline Stack-And-Shred: Can Shreds 100 Papers Automatically
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New concept design of folding bike has pushed forward the idea of mixing a carbon fiber suitcase into the structure. Being called as a Bikoff, I’m strongly believe that the name is a mix between “Bike” and “Office”, which is pretty much designed for office worker that want to have a fitness body by riding bike to their office.

The Bikoff is designed to appeal to people would normally be stuck in a fancy car on their way to work, so they’re probably not going to be dressed for serious riding.

[via DVICE and CoroFlot]

Bikoff: Folding Bike with Built-In Suitcase
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If you want to have something uncommon in your office desk, get one of this Automatic Tape Dispenser. It’s a strange but cool little office toy to help you getting your tape automatically without the need to pull and cut manually.

Seriously… getting a piece of tape has NEVER been this much fun! Our Colorful Automatic Tape Dispenser makes your desk hi-tech! With its bright colors and transparent case, you can see the inner workings in action! No more low-tech for your desk now huh?

Sadly, this little gadget required 4 Pieces of AA batteries to operate and it’s not included in the price of $28.99. It’s depend on you now, if you need some weird and cool little gadget for your desk, you can find this automatic tape dispenser at PerpetualKid.

(via RGS)

Automatic Tape Dispenser
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