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TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album

A quick walk thru of Orgatec 2022.

TWS - Orgatec 2022 Photo/Video Album
Manufacturer, NeoCon 2021
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Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ...

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.

Hightower wins multiple NeoCon awards including ‘Best Showroom’
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief ...

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.

Humanscale Announces Elizabeth Margles as Chief Marketing Officer
Manufacturer
Source: CFN News Desk
Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to ...

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.

Steelcase teams up with Kontrol Technologies to provide air quality monitoring and viral detection technology
Manufacturer, People
Source: CFN News Desk
Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

For over 50 years, Heller offered leading designers the opportunity to work with new technologies to create innovative products. Those were great partnerships and they resulted in great products.

Alan Jay Heller dies at 81

Gadgets

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Microsoft's Digital Post-It Is Powered By Your Office’s Horrible Lighting

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Microsoft's Digital Post-It Is Powered By Your Office’s Horrible Lighting

Offices are littered with Post-it notes. Some argue for their greenness, others aren’t so convinced. But in any case, a tiny reusable display might make a better alternative in the long term—if only it didn’t require any extra power. And it so happens, scientists at Microsoft Research have developed just that.

Featured in New Scientist, and dubbed an "energy harvesting situational display," Microsoft's invention is a Post-it sized chunk of e-paper, the same stuff used in Amazon's Kindles. And simply through some solar panels placed on the display’s back, it can generate enough electricity to not only run continuously simply by sipping on the ambient light inside an office, but to actually update its display anywhere from two to sixty times per hour, depending on light levels.

Via fastcodesign.com >

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Nissan’s autonomous chair is your line waiting buddy

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Nissan’s autonomous chair is your line waiting buddy

Nissan’s ProPILOT tech might mostly be used to help provide its cars with autonomous driving features, but a new project puts it into a chair. Yes, a chair.

The chair propels itself, detecting the chair ahead of it and keeping a fixed distance between itself and its neighbor, as it moves along a predefined path. It’s less flexible than the chairs in Wall-E (kudos to Megan for noticing the similarity), but perfect for alleviating the pains of an age-old human tradition – standing in line.

ProPILOT Chair is designed to make it a lot easier to wait for something, whether it’s the latest iPhone or just a seat at the city’s hottest brunch joint. It’s also going to actually be used in real-world applications, which is more than I expected at first glance from what seems so obviously like a marketing ploy.

Via techcrunch.com >

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Move Over Standing Desk: NiceBalls are the New Cure for Work Stress and Late Capitalism

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Move Over Standing Desk: NiceBalls are the New Cure for Work Stress and Late Capitalism

Finally, finally, they've made a pair of prosthetic balls for your desk. Why? Because you can't telecommute from your truck, and exposing your workspace to exposed pink lumps is great for de-stressing. Maybe you're exhausted by the creative industry grind, fed up with chaotic freelance juggling, or just stressed out by rampant structural sexism in the workplace. Get you a set of the ('impossibly limited edition') NiceBalls suction-stick cojones and with a few quick death grips you'll be feeling right as rain! At least you will if you can also afford healthcare.

Read the article on core77.com >

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In Stata Center phone booths, "light-therapy" aims to brighten moods

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In Stata Center phone booths, "light-therapy" aims to brighten moods

It may be sweltering for most of July and August, with long lingering days, but when winter comes, with its shortness of sunlight, MIT will be ready. 

In fall 2015, Ariel Anders, a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), applied for and received a MindHandHeart Innovation Fund grant to install light-therapy lamps in accessible areas at MIT as a way to combat seasonal affective disorder (SAD), a type of depression that occurs at a certain time each year, usually in the fall or winter.

Read the article on news.mit.edu >

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Businesses worldwide ready to welcome robots into workplace

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Businesses worldwide ready to welcome robots into workplace

Businesses are ready to embrace the new era of robot workers, automation and artificial intelligence, according to a new report. The Robotic Workforce Research study by AI specialists Genfour claims that more than half of respondents globally are ready to embrace the arrival of robots in the workplace. Almost half of respondents believe that between 10 and 30 percent could be subject to automation. Across all businesses in the UK and US, 94 percent responded that they would either embrace robots or felt a robotic future would be inevitable. Almost half (46 per cent) of UK businesses say they are set to welcome robots at work. A similar proportion (47 per cent) believe it is inevitable, and a third (32 per cent) believe they’ll be able to automate as much as 20 per cent of their business as soon as the technology becomes available. Just seven per cent are worried robots would steal jobs and 16 per cent currently have not planned automation.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net > 

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Outmoded desk phone will disappear within next couple of years

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Outmoded desk phone will disappear within next couple of years

A new survey has confirmed the imminent death of the ‘nearly useless’ desk phone, which while still in evidence within many organizations, is believed by one third of workers will disappear in two to three years. With both corporate and remote workers increasingly away from their desks, 65 percent already have a ‘desk phone optional’ work environment and over half (59 percent) believe the desk phone is outdated. The 2016 Report on Business Communications in the Era of the Anywhere Worker, by Dialpad, among end users to executives, on cloud communications adoption rates and expectations, also found that businesses of all sizes are adapting to the “anywhere worker” movement and as employees increasingly rely exclusively on mobile technologies, the organizations they work for are quickly evolving to meet their mobility demands and prepare for more anywhere workers in the future. In fact, 84 percent of responding companies already have remote workers.

Read the article on workplaceinsight.net > 

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DIRTT’s ICEreality puts VR to use for interior, office design

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DIRTT’s ICEreality puts VR to use for interior, office design

A manufacturer of custom prefabricated elements to be built into offices and other work spaces, DIRTT Environmental Solutions is the latest corporation to adopt virtual reality for the enterprise, rather than entertainment.

The company unveiled their ICEreality software this week at an annual construction industry trade show, NeoCon 2016, in Chicago. (Yes, tech news had the audacity to break outside of Apple’s WWDC and the video game industry’s E3 this week.)

DIRTT wants to help architects, developers, facility managers and interior designers create eco-friendly work spaces that are stylish and fit their needs.

Read the article on techcrunch.com >

See How This Machine Will Fold Your Laundry So You Don’t Have To

See How This Machine Will Fold Your Laundry So You Don’t Have To

Free up your time and spend it with your loved ones by handing over your laundry folding to FoldiMate - the robotic laundry folding machine. Laundry, like washing dishes, is just one of those things that has to be done. It’s time consuming and rather boring but necessary none the less. FoldiMate, a clothing folding machine, is trying to make laundry a little less time consuming and a little more exciting.

Read the article on contemporist.com >

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Wasserstein’s Qi Charging Lamp Review

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Wasserstein’s Qi Charging Lamp Review

You know what they say? A man is judged by the type of lamp he has on his desk. It’s a very popular saying. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth tests out the Wasserstein’s Qi Charging Lamp. It’s compatible with a variety of wireless charging Android phones and retails for sixty dollars.

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This Elegant Folding Standing Desk Is So Simple, Even A Kid Could Use It

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This Elegant Folding Standing Desk Is So Simple, Even A Kid Could Use It

We may have reached Peak Standing Desk, but that doesn't mean that people will stop dreaming up slightly new iterations of them any time soon. And that's a good thing too, when they’re as beautifully designed as the OPLØFT, a clean-lined mini-desk that sits on top of any regular desk and renders it adjustable.

Read the article on fastcoexist.com >

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This Brilliant Chair Solves The Inescapable Problem Of Being Too Hot Or Too Cold At Work

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This Brilliant Chair Solves The Inescapable Problem Of Being Too Hot Or Too Cold At Work

If you're at work right now, you're probably too cold. Or too hot. If you have a working thermostat nearby, there's a good chance that it's the thing you disagree about most with the person sitting next to you. It seems like an intractable problem, because people inherently prefer different temperatures. A 2015 study found that women get cold much more quickly than men. (It also pointed out that most offices still use a decades-old formula for setting temperature that's based on the average man, which is why men are a little more likely to be comfortable.)

Read the article on fastcoexist.com >

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Space-Saving Furniture Concepts You Can Actually Build: How Häfele's Hardware Delivers "More Life per Square Meter"

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Space-Saving Furniture Concepts You Can Actually Build: How Häfele's Hardware Delivers "More Life per Square Meter"

In Häfele's world, furniture and interior spaces are magic. Cabinet doors swing upwards and out of the way, drawers close themselves, surfaces appear where none were before, objects of one utility transform into objects of another. However, the company is not a furniture manufacturer, but a world leader in architectural and cabinet hardware and fittings—and the nature of their products actually provides a tricky problem for presenting at trade shows like Holz-Handwerk. 

Read the article on core77.com >

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After numerous delays, Microsoft finally starts shipping its $22K Surface Hub

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After numerous delays, Microsoft finally starts shipping its $22K Surface Hub

If you’re in the market for a giant 84-inch 4K touchscreen computer (and have about $22,000 set aside for that), today is a good day. After numerous delays, Microsoft today started shipping its Surface Hub to business customers.

Surface Hub comes in both the giant 84-inch version and a smaller 55-inch HD edition for a relatively affordable $8,999. You’ll still need a stand for them, too, which will set you back another $3,699 for the rolling stand for the 84-inch model and $2,350 for the 55-inch version (or less if you just want to mount your Hub to a wall).

Read the article on techcrunch.com >

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