(At least in your Neighborhood)

I love my laptop. The thing with laptops is that you tend sometimes develop some affection for it. You take care of it as much as possible, as it will be your sidekick for the next couple years to come. And you are always fearful for the first large scratch, which is why most of us get some kind of casing or sleeves for it. Here are a couple example of sleeves for those who feel like accessorizing their dear laptops.

The “My Documents” folder on your laptop’s file system is the location where most of your files live. The whole “folder” metaphor was first developed by Xerox Parc for its ground-breaking Star desktop system. Those folders were designed to mimic the real-life paper-and-manilla-folders offices use to file paperwork. Now, that metaphor is carried on by all graphical user-interfaces. No matter what operating-system you’ve got on your laptop, you’ve probably got something like a “My Documents” folder.

The neoprene laptop sleeve is big enough to host a laptop up to 15.4 inches. The inner fleece lining keeps everything shiny and scratch-free. Also included is the pixilated cursor-pin to ram that concept home. The “My Document” Laptop sleeve can be purchased through Think Geek

The 9-5 laptop sleeve brings with you to corporate America. Be sure to talk about it by the water cooler; you will be making a lot of friends with it.  Made of heavy duty vinyl and padded with 1/4 fabric backed foam. You can find it at BarrysFarm for just $40.

Without a doubt the sharpest looking laptop sleeve I’ve seen. It folds open like a flower around your laptop and then folds back up into an envelope-like sleeve. Made out of heavy gauge felt. Laptop sleeves are great if you don’t want to buy a seperate laptop bag and just use an existing bag you already own. You can find it at Red Maloo for just under $100.

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We have seen recently more and more efforts towards more eco-friendly and sustainable products. Sustainable products are these products that provide environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health, welfare, and environment over their full commercial cycle, from the extraction of raw materials to final disposition.

The company Hacoa brings this notion full circle with a collection of elegant wooden office products. The collection is quite diversified going from keyboards, to paper clip holder and even USB flash drives, and all products have a nice Zen feel to them. Enjoy

Paper Clips holder

Apple Keyboard Stand

Keyboard

Usb Flash Drive

Mouse Pad

Stapler

The only fear I have about using these products is the amount of splitters you might get, especially while typing on the keyboard.

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In case you haven’t been bombarded enough by the unveiling of the iPhone 3G, you may just have to hear about it one more time, because, we, the creative minds behind the Office Supply Blog, are of that religion. We understand that the majority of you guys are still under the monopolistic hold of Microsoft Windows, however that is about to change.

Let me reinterpret some of the more important features of iPhone 3G to all you latent Apple fans:

1. Support for Microsoft Exchange: Fortune 500 companies everywhere will drop the Blackberry as the main mobile device so fast, you won’t know where it disappeared to.
2. Better, faster: 3G technology allows iPhone fast access to internet and email, will make it easier for office workers everywhere to mix work and play.
3. $199 price tag: it was $599 merely a year ago, 2/3 price drop means the new iPhone will be ubiquitous.
4. Enterprise applications: Apple recently opened the iPhone to outside development programs, as in there will be so many fun business applications to help your daily office tasks simpler, easier, and funner.

Here is what we predict will happen in post iPhone 3G world:

1. Microsoft looses 80% of market share because corporations worldwide eventually switch to Macintosh operating system because of the iPhone 3G. Will become such a rare commodity that they become hip again, establish their own cult following, and still manages to make boatload of money auctioning “antique” Windows operating systems on Ebay.
2. Research in Motion and Palm merge, produce a baby that’s so ugly they both have to file for bankruptcy.
3. Steve Jobs is declared National Treasure, and is the only human being granted the right to clone himself due to his importance to “National Security Issues”.

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