Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
Thanks to an array of health and fitness-tracking devices, we now have the option of constant access to data about our body—on everything from step count to heart beat to stress level. Common wisdom is that this act of self-monitoring makes us more familiar with our bodies and better equipped become healthier or recognize when something is wrong. But what if this ceaseless stream of data is making us less intuitive about what our body actually wants and needs?
We all have those moments when we wish we could just hang out in bed all day long. Well, there’s a furniture line that is practically made for those Netflix-and-chill moods.
Enter, the Blandito, the lazy person’s dream chair-cushion-pad thingy. Made of malleable materials, it’s basically a flat pillow that can fold up and be secured into whatever shape you want it to be — the top pick being a cuddle taco (or clam?), of course. Made by Oradaria Design, the Blandito molds into the desired shape and is then secured by two wooden tapestry balls. Once you’re set up, you’re not going anywhere. So, you can feel like you got out of bed, but not really.
With virtual reality (VR) headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive shipping to consumers in the very-near future, everyone is eager to find out if 2016 will be the year of VR. For many, VR is still an experiment or in beta, but for the past 16 months, IA has been using VR with great success. In the immediate future, it could spark a paradigm shift in the way our clients communicate with us and experience their designs.
Humanscale has announced its latest innovation, M/Connect, is the first-ever integrated monitor arm base and docking station of its kind uniting technology and ergonomics to enhance the computing experience. Now available to order with Humanscales best-selling line of monitor arms, M/Connect provides universal device accommodation, easy access to user connections and high-speed charging all while eliminating desktop cable clutter.
If you've made a New Year's Resolution to get up and be active more often, switching to a standing desk makes for a reasonable action item. As it turns out, standing up all day in the office doesn't work for everyone, so it's wise to find a flexible option that allows for smooth, swift changes in position—at a moment's notice. Here are two new, quite different offerings to help achieve your 2016 goal of sitting less.
Printer giant Epson has developed an in-office paper recycling machine. Called the PaperLab, you put waste paper in, and then new, bright white printer paper comes out. Epson says this process is more efficient than sending paper to an off-site recycling plant, and it's also much more secure: the PaperLab, which breaks paper down into its constituent fibres before building them back up into new sheets, is one of the most secure paper shredders that money can buy.
