What office supply has been the most revolutionary over the years? I say paperclip.
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Other Uses :
"Wire is versatile, and the most commonplace wire is in paper clips. Thus a paper clip is a useful accessory in many kinds of mechanical work including computer work: the metal wire can be unfolded with a little force. Several devices call for a very thin rod to push a recessed button which the user might only rarely need. This is seen on most CD-ROM drives as an "emergency eject" should the power fail; also on early floppy disk drives (including the early Macintosh). Both 1st generation iPhones and the iPhone 3G require a paper clip to eject the sim card and some Palm PDAs advise the use of a paper clip to reset the device. The track ball can be removed from early Logitech pointing devices using a paper clip as the key to the bezel. A paper clip bent into a "U" can be used to start an ATX PSU without connecting it to a motherboard (connect the green to a black on the Motherboard header). One or more paper clips can make a loopback device for a RS232 interface (or indeed many interfaces). A paper clip could be installed in a Commodore 1541 disk-drive as a flexible head-stop. Paper clips have been used (unsafely) to replace fuses.
Paper clips can be bent into a crude but sometimes effective lock picking device. Some types of handcuffs can be unchained using paper clips. There are two approaches. The first one is to unfold the clip in a line and then the end to be twisted in right angle trying to imitate a key and using it to lift the lock fixator. The second approach, which is more feasible but needs some practice, is to use the semi-unfolded clip kink for lifting when the clip is inserted through the hole where the handcuffs are closed."
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Not to mention decorate your monitor will all kinds of notes that you struggle to find because you have too many in trying to remember what is what.
Did you know that the adhesive used on post-it notes was created by accident? A 3M lab worker was trying to create a stronger glue then what they currently had, and ended up making a weaker glue that wouldn't dry out and stick over and over again. That was in 1968. Four years later they were first used. In 1977, they were sold for the very first time and went national in 1980.
They are so popular the inventor Art Fry was named one of "The 100 Best People in the World" by Esquire magazine.
Take that rusty ole paperclip! ;-)
http://www.3m.com/us/office/postit/pastpresent/history_ws.html
http://www.3m.com/us/office/postit/pastpresent/history_ff.html
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