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There’s no hiding the fact that I am completely and utterly useless when it comes to walking long distances. And I don’t think I’m alone. Our legs suffer atrophy from being at our desks so long, but walking is needed sometimes. The Paraseat offers a way for us lazy heads to stop every twenty seconds or so to take a break.

The Paraseat is actually a portable seat with a handle that is made to latch on to poles, including those on the subway! You might look a little funny, but you’ll have the last laugh when the other people left without a chair start buckling in the knees. — Andrew Dobrow

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Hourglasses are known mostly for sitting on wizards desks and counting down how long people have left to live, but the Digital Hourglass should be known as one of the coolest time pieces ever. We love old ideas made anew. This is one of those products. The Digital Hourglass is a German design project from Susann Humann and Fabian Hemmert, and was actually made for a course project for “Interface Design”. You get the first prize in that class from us.

The Hourglass is set just like any other you might have seen in movies. Pick it up and turn it 45 degrees and the digital sand starts-a-rolling. Once it is standing up on a right angle the timer is activated and lasts for an hour of digital flow. They even added a snooze feature. To turn off the hourglass, you lay it at a 45 degree angle, and it folds in on itself, where it then goes on stand-by. Mixing the old with the new is so gadget-licious. — Andrew Dobrow

The digital hourglass [Gamescience.org]

Some people are really set in their ways. Cluttered desks is a common problem and is becoming a habit for many of us. For a pretty minimal price, you can be like Van Mardian, and totally clean the clutter crappity crap off your desk, while still keeping all of your needed gadgets (or wanted, as most aren’t really needed unless we’re talking about an oxygen tank).

Using only a pegboard, 5 hasps, screws, a dowel, Styrofoam, and wire Mr. Mardian shows us how to eliminate all of our desk clutter for a scant price of $33.42 by relocating all extra-ness to an attached board under your desk. Catch the jump for a picture of the end result and more. (more…)