In the not-so-distant future, as you're rummaging through piles of coffee-stained reports on your desk looking for the correct one for your meeting, you may be able to enlist technology to help you find it. Swingline shared an idea with Popular Science in which they would embed radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on staples so you can track down wayward documents.

These special staples would apparently be able to wirelessly communicate with a location service so you know exactly which trash bin or shredder your document was dumped in. They're probably not suitable for every document to come out of the photocopier, but for sensitive things like scripts or confidential files, they'd be perfect.

This seems to be a logical extension of RFID technology in the workplace when you consider these types of transmitters are already potentially being used to track employees. You could of course staple yourself for fun instead of getting a RFID tattoo. — Nino Marchetti

Popular Science, via Gizmo Watch