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This notebook was designed to be so sustainable, it’s virtually carbon-neutral

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You’d expect paper to be environmentally friendly, right? I mean, it’s naturally occurring, can easily be regrown, and it biodegrades. That outwardly simple idea isn’t as ‘paper-white’ when you dig further. The truth is, paper is almost always made from fresh wood pulp. It leads to mass-scale tree-felling, requires thousands of gallons of water to flatten the pulp into sheets, and hazardous chemicals to bleach the paper so it’s white… but here’s the part nobody tells you. It’s also a major hassle to recycle paper and make it look as good as new. Those crisp white executive bond sheets are almost always made from virgin wood/cotton, and nobody really buys recycled paper because truth be told, it’s more expensive than that beautiful white sheet you print memos on, or write minutes of meetings on. theGVA hopes to correct that imbalance.

Based out of Geneva, theGVA (The Green Value Attitude) is trying to perfect the ‘business model of paper’. theGVA’s notebooks aren’t just sustainably grown, each notebook’s purchase actually adds back to the environment more than it took from it. The ‘eco-friendly’ notebook comes with FSC paper, grown under internationally certified sustainable conditions, made from a combination of virgin wood pulp (cultivated responsibly from well-maintained and managed forests), as well as recycled paper. The cover of the notebook comes crafted from a uniquely tactile and smooth bamboo ply. Given how rapidly bamboo can be cultivated, the bamboo harvested for the notebook covers can be well accounted for within just a few months. The covers are left bare, giving you the freedom to either color in your own cover, or etch out your company’s graphic. The notebooks are all hand-bound and hand-stitched with leather spines, and complete with an elastic band to hold it all together.

Available in the A5 size, each notebook comes with 72 pages and the ability to choose between blank, dotted, and ruled paper. 1% of the sales from each notebook go to ‘One Percent for the Planet’, an international organization whose members help contribute to environmental causes. This effectively makes each notebook carbon-negative (if not neutral), allowing you to actually help heal the planet by buying paper!

Designer: Laurent Gonthier

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TheGVA – An Organic Notebook

Made from herbs, Laurent Gonthier designed a notebook using organic raw material with bamboo (the graminea) and recycled paper.

How is it Made?

The notebooks are made 100% from natural raw bamboo and recycled paper and come in 13 colors, A5 size, containing 72 pages (blank, lined or dotted paper), and have a hand-sewn binding for a strong and elegant finish.

Unlike a PVC notebook, the materials used result in a very smooth touch and feel. TheGVA can engrave the front cover for a customized finish. Alternatively, the owner can color the front cover with a traditional pen.

Each Notebook Is Unique

The designs use bamboo as it is among the fastest renewable resources in the world. Bamboo is not wood but a type of grass (gramineous). It grows much faster than trees (up to 20 meters per year).

Every notebook has been carefully designed to respect the environment and comply with the green value equation and ISO certification standards. The team will also contribute 1% of their revenues to the organization “1% For The Planet”.

Click Here to Buy Now: $24 $28 (20% off). Hurry, only 8/67 left!

Lenovo’s latest Flex laptop is its first with 5G connectivity

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5G availability is expanding, and the new mobile data standard won’t be the domain of just phones and tablets. Lenovo’s new laptop has its own 5G modem and nano SIM card slot, so users can stay connected wherever there’s a signal. The company says th...

HP Elite Dragonfly review: Pretty powerful for a 2-pound laptop

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When HP launched the Elite Dragonfly, it made bold claims about this laptop being "lighter than air." Obviously, that's marketing hyperbole -- nothing tangible actually weighs less than air -- but the Elite Dragonfly is still pretty light. It c...

Apple’s next MacBook upgrades could be coming soon

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Last year's 16-inch MacBook Pro felt a bit like a return to form. While the latest iteration of Apple's flagship laptop didn't address the love-it-or-hate-it (but mostly hate-it) Touch Bar and an obnoxious lack of connectivity, it did have a much bet...

Apple’s latest MacBook Air is on sale for $900

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Not everyone needs a MacBook Pro. The high-powered and high-priced portables are easily capable of tasks like editing HD video, creating graphics projects and resource-intensive development. For those who just need to answer emails, browse the web an...

This Starfleet Engineering Notebook Is Approved by the United Federation of Planets

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Engineering plays a critical role in the operation of every space vessel. But where do you keep track of your notes on tuning your warp core, or the right settings to keep your transporter from turning your crewmates inside out? You need a journal, and this one should do just fine…

The Unemployed Philosophers Guild sells this fun Starfleet Engineering Notebook that’s perfect for all of your notes and scribbles (or is it tribbles?) The 3″ x 5″ notebook includes 48 gridded pages for sketching technical drawings, and also features schematics for a phaser, a communicator, and a tricorder in case the ship’s computer isn’t responding, and you need to look them up.

My only concern about the notebook at all is that it’s red, which means that it’s likely to self-destruct, so use it with caution. You can grab one here for just $3.95.

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This invincible pencil and notepad will work for eternity! Even in space!

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Roughly 10 seconds into the above video, I was a combination of curious and impressed. This is the nuka, a pencil and notepad combo that the designers claim will work forever. The pencil never finishes, and the notepad is eternally recyclable. They work in the sun, rain, snow, perhaps even underwater, and even in space! Ten seconds into the video, this sounds like borderline witchcraft… but in reality, it’s just top-notch product design and material engineering!

nuka comprises of an eternal pencil, made of a specialized alloy tip that can oxidize a paper’s surface without a residue, essentially making it run forever (and not need sharpening either). While that, in itself, is pretty marvelous, it comes with nuka’s invincible notebook. The notebook is waterproof, tear-proof, and works wonderfully in conjunction with the nuka pencil. Together, you can take notes practically anywhere, anyhow. Write in the rain, in the snow, upside down, or even in a hurry. nuka’s notebook is capable of being your canvas in practically any scenario without ripping, tearing, or affecting your line-quality. What do you do when the notebook gets over? nuka also comes with a specialized eraser fluid that lets you wipe the entire book clean, leaving not even a trace of your lines and notes. The eraser fluid comes in both spray and wet-wipe form, and wipes the oxidization/lines/notes off the paper, making it brand new, something even water or an eraser can’t do.

Designed to be as immortal as the ideas you note down in them, nuka can be used and reused for centuries… and the stationery set even comes with an app that helps you actively capture and document notes you’ve taken in the past. Designed to be carried everywhere you go, the nuka notebook comes with a magnetic spine that allows the eternal pencil to snap to it. Made to be your forever journal, the nuka captures all your notes, ideas, concepts, sketches, doodles, and secrets in its everlasting, indestructible self… giving you the most apt set of tools to capture your immortal thoughts!

Designer: Evgenija Medvedeva

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About nuka Eteneral Stationery

The rewritable notebook and metal pencil. The notebook is waterproof, tear-proof, and works wonderfully in conjunction with the nuka pencil.

Winner of the Red Dot Design Award for the year 2019.

Completely Rewritable

Write, erase, and write again and again on the same page with any type of pen, pencil or marker. Make the slightest of motions and all inscription will fully disappear thanks to nuka magic eraser.

Wipe Off All Unnecessary Information

Self-developed non-toxic liquid is available in 2 forms: wet wipe & spray can.

Writes With Metal

Eternal pencil’s tip is made of unique metal alloy. It writes like regular pencil, but you can forget about sharpening or broken leads. Just write and enjoy of smooth writing experience. Forever.

Different Pressure Sensitivity

Press harder for thicker lines, lighter for thinner. And yes, you can wipe off eternal pencil’s writings by nuka magic eraser.

Totally Waterproof

Notebook components are made of waterproof materials which haven’t been used in other stationery before. Don’t worry about safety, the notes can’t be destroyed even if you spill water or any other drink on it.

Tear Resistant Paper

Next generation paper which you won’t be able to tear. Because of the quality, the notebook is durable and stays as new for a long time.

Magnetic Fastner

Never again old fashion notebook rubber bands. One easy motion to open the notebook and full safe closure when you carry it, thanks to embedded magnets inside cover.

Connect With Notebook

No way to lose the pencil as it attaches magnetically to the eternal notebook by one easy touch.

+nuka App

Perfect extension of eternal notebook on your phone. Scan the page with nuka app and get digital handwritten notes of good quality.

Create virtual notebooks and keep separate scans by categories projects, sketches, ideas and more. All notes are organized, safe, and always with you.

Three Layouts

Self-developed smart-dots is multipurpose for all your needs. Use it to write down notes, make sketches, spreadsheet on the same page.

Truth is that your tasks never end, like nuka to-do list. Erase completed tasks and write new.

Plan your month, erase and plan again. Unlimited times.

Scan tasks and it will be added to to-do list inside the app. You will never forget about unfinished tasks thanks to reminders.

Scan the page and plans will be added to calendar inside the app. You will get notifications about your schedule as per the scanned pages.

Still, Soft and Tactile

They save all tactility pleasant touch feelings of regular paper, because they love it. nuka paper is matt and soft to touch.

Click Here to Buy Now: $59 $89 ($30 off). Hurry, only 35/800 left!

Gigabyte’s Aero 15 OLED laptop is made for video editors

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In 2019, OLED laptops are nothing new. ASUS even took this feature to the next level on its dual-screen ZenBook Pro Duo. At Computex, Gigabyte is the latest company to join the trend, with a refreshed Aero 15 featuring a Samsung 4K AMOLED panel, wrap...

Moleskine’s paper notebook lets you draw in vectors right inside Adobe Illustrator!

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Teaming up together to achieve the near impossible, Adobe and Moleskine have debuted the Paper Tablet, a book and pen combo that translates sketches on paper to digital sketches on Adobe’s software… but that’s not all. The sketches you make on Moleskine’s Paper Tablet don’t just appear as scanned images on your computer. They get vectorized within Adobe Illustrator, giving you an infinite set of possibilities to take your doodles and actually begin working on them in vector software.

The magic happens courtesy Moleskine’s Adobe Creative Cloud Connected Paper Tablet (the notebook), and the Moleskine Pen+ Ellipse pen. The notebook comes with Adobe’s Illustrator icon at the top right of each page, and simply tapping on it with the Pen+ Ellipse lets you save all your progress to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Once you begin sketching on Moleskine’s special notebook, the Pen+ records each movement, copying each stroke to Adobe Illustrator in real time, although you can sketch independently without having Adobe Illustrator open too. With a simple Adobe extension, you can beam all your progress to Illustrator and sketch in real-time should you choose. You can even undo actions and brush strokes on the digital file (although that won’t happen on paper).

Essentially replacing the need for a Wacom, while providing integration with Adobe’s Illustrator to remove all sorts of friction, Moleskine’s Paper Tablet is a neat way to take your doodles and sketches to the next level while retaining the comfort of drawing on paper.

Designers: Moleskine & Adobe