Very Exclusive Gadgets & Gizmos

Visioneer is a well known name and a leader in intelligent document imaging solutions, having announced their latest device known as the Strobe 500. What is the STrobe 500, exactly? Well, it is a new mobile duplex color scanner that comes with a docking station that was developed with dual platform support for Windows and Mac operating systems. It will boast a 20-page automatic document feeder (ADF) alongside the capability to scan at 15 ppm/30 ipm. When left undocked, the scanner is still capable of operating via USB- or wall-power as a sheetfed scanner.

For the stylish business tycoons, who believe in living life king size, carrying merely a laptop is simply not a solution to managing work when out of the office. So, carry your office with you wherever you go. The latest on the list of mobile offices is this stylish “Mayfair Steamer Secretary Trunk” crafted by antiques dealer and furniture maker Timothy Oulton of London. The over-sized steamer trunk is handmade of distressed vintage cigar leather over a solid wood frame and is accented with over 3,000 hand-hammered brass nail heads.

Novanta workstation is heavenly for those Mac lovers who don’t wish to shift their loyalty from their old Mac machine. The desk that aims at enhancing task performance is a rigid MDF and aluminum structure allowing users to keep their collection of MacBooks and iPods together at one desk. It comes with integrated speaker grills, the illuminated tabletop and a bunch of external connectivities including USB & audio hub, iPod dock, and so on increasing its area of utility. Apart from that, the desk includes multiple drawers for hiding those heaps of papers and electronics piled on your table.

The Ci Desk by the creative industrial objects, a vienna based design studio. The Ci Desk is a on wheels mobile workstation. The Ci Desk includes a variety of shelves and drawers that you can open from the front and sides, perfect for storing your gadgets and office accessories. It also with a desktop that can be slided out to allow the user to sit below it. When you use the laptop, the desktop featuring includes a horizontal slide out mouse pad(see the pic). CI desk provides mobility and a practical working space for any busy individual.

While the Pininfarina Luna desk looks to be the smart choice for trendy executives, the Ferrari F40 office desk is one great office chair option for the racing enthusiasts. This desk is a minimalist design that features Rosso Corsa painted aluminum frame with carbon fiber support rails and a floating glass top. The top glass features a center mounted wire access hole, which is the actual dash vent from a Ferrari F40. A Belkin hardwired surge protector with LED status indicators and on/off switch is positioned below the glass to the frame.

The Leopard is under development by the Oki Electric Industry and the Okamura Corporation, and it is designed to rise up and meet your backside as you go and sit down. It will also rise up when you want to get up.

You might ask yourself why someone would make a chair like this. Perhaps someone feels a need to create comfort that is “akin to being held in someone’s arms”. It sounds to me like the inventor of this chair may have some dependency issues, but I’m all for any device that can make you more comfortable, especially if it is an office chair.

The Postalco Calfskin Envelope ($400) designed by Mike Abelson. If you will buy a Postalco Calfskin Envelope as your bag? "Postalco began in Brooklyn, New York. Curious about the international transport of mail, their logo is the carrier pigeon."

The inspiration for the name “1010” comes from “Ten minutes past ten (10:10),” the moment when the hands on a watch dial are rightly balanced. Made of rhodium-coated silver, the 1010 pen boasts a clip that resembles a watch hand. An ornamental balance wheel has been placed between two rubies under a sapphire dome and the beautiful tiny tick marks are etched around the barrel. The luxury pen even has a piston pump set with a ruby and a sapphire crystal dome at the bottom tip.

Poor Herman Miller, maker of the infamous (and rather good) Aeron office chair which found their way into out-of-work employees studio apartments after the first dot-com bubble, has just launched a successor in time for the nationwide financial crisis: The "Embody" is a $1,600 office chair with an exposed structure with 56 flexors along the back and 93 plastic disks that move allow for movement and adjustment of the surface underneath the operator.

These days, in the world of designing, working with just paper and pen isn’t enough. It has become mandatory to liven up the sketches with graphical inputs assisted by a computer to achieve optimum results. After all, only a design that speaks volumes can grab everyone’s attention. Imran Othman has pulled out all the stops with his concept of an ultimate Designer’s Workstation. Just what all the upcoming as well professional designers could ask for, this workstation is ingeniously designed to make it uber convenient for all of them to give shape to their ideas.