We’ve seen some kooky tape dispensers before, but this one goes overboard with the assistance of gears and wheels. If you’re the laziest guy in the office, you might not mind this $36 tape-dispensing bot on your desk, even though it looks like a child’s toy. Sure, they laugh at its clear plastic case that makes it look like a cross between a squirt gun and the Visible Man, but those guffaws will turn to gasps of admiration when they see how effortlessly it offers up a piece of tape without any energy expenditure on your part whatsoever.

Fill up your desktop with the noisy, grinding mechs, adding a mechanical stapler (pictured above left) and hole puncher (also $36 each) to the group. They’ll think you’re crazy, but you can just praise the machines' efficiency — the work-saving devices give you time and energy for more important pursuits. Just be sure to give your cube neighbors some noise-canceling headphones to drown out the cacophony these contraptions are sure to create.

Design Complex, via TFTS