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If, like me, you were around in the dot com wild west days, the thing you coveted more than anything else (more than yoga classes or free lunches) was the Herman Miller Aeron chair. It’s pretty much gone down in history as the greatest office chair eva!
But now Gizmodo alerts us to a new challenger [...]

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Starbucks. 81st and Broadway.

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ShareLast week, Lifehacker wrapped up their annual coolest cubicle contest.
The workspace pictured to the left is not the winner of that contest, but this is the workspace I want.
This guy rigged up his workspace atop a treadmill.
Another guy did a similar thing.
The thing about this setup, is you don’t have to set it to run [...]

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From the department of How Come No One Has Ever Thought About This Before.
Just for storing pens alone, this is genius. It’s like those new trashbags with an elastic top so the bags stay in the trash can. This could change my life.
I hereby demand that all keyboard manufacturers include a storage box underneath [...]

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ShareI’m actually a big fan of using balloons as stress balls. I like having a stress ball I can destroy in the end.
But if you’re less destructive than I am, this cool post will give you step by step instructions to make your own homemade (or officemade) stress ball.
And if you think this is just [...]

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Wired continues it’s seemingly bi-monthly series of slideshows showing us either the best or the worst in cubicle living. In this case, it’s the best… 8 cubicles redesigned in creative ways. To quote Monty Python, where’s my medieval torture dungeon/philosophical salon-themed cube design?
h/t Lifehacker 

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/design/The_Pock_IT_Like_A_Post_IT_But_With_A_Pouch’;In what is surely the product development equivalent of the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon, the web is abuzz today over the concept of the Pock-It.
Essentially, a post-it note with strategically placed adhesive, the Pock-It allows you to post a note and package something along with it.
The Pock-It is the brainchild of Taiwanese [...]

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ShareDid you hear the one about the in-house Masseuse at Google who is now cashing out her stock options and claiming a multi-million dollar windfall? Ahhh… reminds me of the late 90s all over again.
My favorite part is how she now has her own masseuse to give her weekly massages. Oh, and a 3,000 square [...]

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ShareI always GOT the character Milton from the movie Office Space. Sure, everyone thinks of him as a bit unhinged, but I think he’s actually quite rational. I mean, even if it’s just a stapler, it’s his stapler. It’s reliable, functional, never jams and it’s that color of red that reminds him of his boyhood [...]

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ShareEngineer? College professor? Too cheap for PowerPoint? Just a squirrel, trying to get a nut as a product tester for a Dry-Erase industry trade publication?
Feast your tired eyes on Ultraser. It can do this:

Yankodesign via Gizmodo

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