Whether out of boredom or necessity, at some time most of us have tried to join a few pieces of paper together without any external fasteners — the most common method is folding and ripping a tab in the fold. The Eco Stapler allows you to join up to 5 pieces of paper together in a much neater manner.
When you press down on the Eco Stapler it creates a slot with a hanging tab and a slit in the papers. Then somewhere between pushing down and releasing the magic happens; the tab is wrapped around and pulled through the slit, joining the papers together.
I do see a couple of problems with the Eco Stapler: One, if you have more than 5 pages, you’re stuck going back to a regular stapler. Two, with regular staples you can remove the staple and reorder, add, or subtract pages and if you’re good use the same staple holes. You’d make a mess of your papers trying to do any of those operations with the Eco Stapler.
You can find the Eco Stapler (or possibly a knock-off) for as little as $3 before shipping.
Eco Stapler [Corporate Site]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
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Hah! I’ve had one of these sitting on my desk at work for almost 4 years now…
Honestly, aside from the pure ingenious novelty, it really only does a fair job on up to 2-3 sheets of standard weight copy paper in my experience… but the look of shock from coworkers when they first see it is most defintiely priceless =) And alot more neat looking than those old rabbit-ears most of us learned to make at some point in school.
It’s kind of funny watching these things go through a resurgence as a “green” invention, when they’ve been around since about 1910 (see Wikipedia). I had one given to me as a very young boy. It was a hand me down when my Great Grandmother passed away. She bought it because she was extremely frugal and wouldn’t pay needless cash for staples.
Tim’s right, they’re okay for clipping a couple of receipts together but that’s about it, and they don’t hold very secure. You can place a piece of tape across the stitch to keep them together more permanently, but why not just use a real staple at that point.
OK, Fine.
But does it create “HANGING CHAD”?
And if so, what will that do to our political system?
Wouldn’t making staples out of recycled material be “green”?
How about paper clips? They are resuable so wouldn’t they be considered “green”? Looks like paper clips would do a better job than this contraption.
So instead of reaching for the eco stapler reach for a paper clip or a stapler.
Garrett Wade Has a fancier version: http://www.garrettwade.com/no-staple-stapler/p/19S23.01/
I’ve had one of these for years, a Japanese stapleless stapler
http://www.virtualstapler.com/gallery/paperstapler.php
http://www.virtualstapler.com/gallery/images/g_paperstapler.jpg
So very “eco”. It’ll save literally ounces of steel.