Tag: SHREDDER

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. The simplest ...

Last year we had to run all over CES to find paper shredders to satiate our fetish. This year the shredders came to us! There were probably more paper shredders on the show floor, and don't worry we'll bring them to you, but we couldn't resist a quick stop at the Staples booth that was literally in the center of the press lounge here. Oddly enough, Staples actually put some fairly unique ...

Someone here at the Switched has a bit of an obsession, if you hadn't noticed yet. We just can't help but cover every novelty or development in the world of paper shredders. Sadly there was nothing as powerful as this $30,000 shredder on display at CES, but there were a few noteworthy entries into the world of document destruction. Whether they were pretty, paranoid or just plain weird, they ...

We sure like our shredders here at Switched. And if your "business trips" are really a little more like "time away with the mistress," then you're really going to like Kinlan's new handheld USB shredder too. Don't just tear up receipts from hotel stays and dinners too romantic to be professional. Simply plug this baby into your laptop's USB port and shred away. The device is roughly 10 inches by ...

Continuing our love of all things that shred, we present 'The Spam Trap'. Artist Bill Hackleford built 'The Spam Trap' from an aging Pentium II-based PC, printer and shredder. The PC downloads his spam, feeds the senders' information to an online database of spammers, then prints out the e-mails. After the spam is printed, it is fed into a shredder and dumped into a pile of what it really is: ...

We've learned that people like gadgets that shred things. There's nothing like a wanton act of destruction in the name of productivity and interesting design. In that vein we present you with the Chrono_Shredder. Another design exercise like the Hamster Powered Paper Shredder. The Chrono_Shredder, from Susanna Hertrich, is a red box that hangs on the wall and holds a daily calendar on a paper ...

Is your pet hamster just sitting around taking up space? Make the little rodent earn his keep! Using an ingenious implementation of Flintstones technology, the Hamster Shredder uses your little guy's exercise wheel to shred your most confidential documents (plans for world domination, etc.). Why buy bedding for the furball when he can make his own from your credit card statements? Why scream at a ...