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No-staple stapler is better for the environment (and looks cool)
By Rain Noe - Aug 03, 2007
It looks like some sort of USB knob, but that there is actually a "staple-less stapler," which fastens up to five sheets hanging-chad-style. Why use it? According to ecofabulous, if every office worker used one less staple every day for a year, we'd save 120 million tons of steel. Crikey.
Available on Amazon for six bucks.
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
7 Comments
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I know this comment is a little late, but the quote from ecofabulous is actually "we would save 120 tons of steel"... not 120 MILLION tons. Cool little concept though, especially in the crusade to green an office.!Report as spam
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If you put the paper in straight, and not on an angle as you would with a normal stappler, it won't mangle the corners of your paper. The sheets do come apart quite easily though.!Report as spam
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I've owned one of these for a couple of years. They sell at Staples too. It actually does not work all that well. It mutilates the corners of sheets and you must use it on a hard surface for the chance of it working reasonably well. No picking up the stapler and doing the quick fix while walking or standing. I guess this is what Bruce Sterling was talking about when he said the transition into a real sustainable lifestyle was going to suck for a while. Maybe they'll improve the design and not make it out of plastic next go round.!Report as spam
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lets see by my guesstimate that steel in that thing has weighs about 2500 staples and it replaces the existing stapler so your need to use it for 2500 shots just to get even!Report as spam
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Also, let's take Jon's 1/2 Billion office workers and calculate the amount of money required to stock those people with these $6 staplers ... $3,000,000,000!!Report as spam
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Bought mine at MOMA. There are few things wrong with the design. But the funny thing is that this principle is VERY old. (so old that the original patents have long ran out).!Report as spam
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Ummmmmm....I think one has to call BS on this one. 6 Billion people on the planet. Let's say 1/2 Billion office workers on the planet. Let's generously weigh a staple in at .1 gram. That's .0001 Kg. multiply that by 365 days in a year. Mulitply .0365 by 1/2 Billion people and you get 1.825 Million Kg. Divide that by 1000 (a metric tonne) and you only get 18,250 Tonnes of steel. Still a lot of steel, but no where near the 120 Million tons hyped. Cool little design, however.!Report as spam
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