The Infinitely Adjustable Reading Valet is a hands-free bookstand that helps you to sleep?

Unlike typical hands-free bookstands that offer only one position, this superior model telescopes, tilts, yaws, and swivels 360º to allow countless hands-free reading positions. The bookstand can hold a book inverted over your head while you are lying down or sitting supine in a lounge chair.

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Your workplace and the atmosphere surrounding you determine the way you work and explore your imagination. The more inspirational your workplace is, the easier it is to break the creativity block and discover new ideas. And apparently there is a number of things you can do to improve your personal workflow.

Physical space matters. It’s easier to be productive, creative and happy at work in a colourful, organic, playful environment than in a grey, linear, boring one. Ever since the birth of the cubicle, it has been argued, office workstations have gone downhill. Fortunately, at least some companies have come to understand the importance of physicial surroundings to an employee’s creativity, productivity and general disposition.

Here are examples of 10 different innovative, well-designed workplaces.

Pixar’s workplace: designers are allowed to design their workplace as they wish.

The Milk desk: a design to match Apple gear; with white surface and rounded edges. As Alexander Kjerulf states, “it lowers and raises electrically, it has ways to hide the cable clutter, and it also has four compartments at one end that can be configured for storage, trash or, em, as an aquarium.”

Google offers its engineers and developers full freedom. Not only bicycles can be found in the offices; also cats and dogs are quite usual.

PerfumeHub.co.uk is a new and exciting venture from Beautynet UK, a successful fragrance and toiletries wholesaler.

Its goal is to provide branded designer fragrances, perfumes, gift sets and skin care products to consumers, at prices more akin to duty free than the high street. Based at eOffice Bristol, with a warehouse and logistics operation in Bridgend, Perfume Hub supplies perfumes and cosmetics to customers from all over the UK and across Europe.

“We saw internet sales growing year on year, with consumers showing a clear desire to shop online, in the convenience of their own home….” says Liam de Glanville, director of Beautynet UK, “so it made sense to take our existing sourcing and distribution set up and create a dedicated online channel through which we can provide people with their favourite fragrances, at much better value than the high street, delivered straight to their door”.

Perfume Hub offers products up to 75% off high street prices and features regular special offers and promotions.

Find out more at www.perfumehub.co.uk

For Startups looking Venture Capital Financing or simply want to learn to present to investors, David Hornik of August Capital and the creator of VentureBlog gives some quick tips on how to get started.

See more videos and how-to business information at http://allbusiness.com

Award-winning Mango Studio specialise in booking and management systems for outdoor activity centres in the UK and Europe. The studio has developed the best innovative technology including mobile applications that interact with BBC big screens and online web experiences that allow thrill seeking customers to book their activity at ease.

The founder, Vinnie Morgan, a young entrepreneur who turned his expertise in digital technology into a commercial success story, now heads a business at the forefront of online booking management systems.

Mango Studio started from very small beginnings and has progressed to its current position with offices in Teesside and Bristol, through the sheer hard work and determination of its staff. In September 2009, the company opened their southwest regional office with eOffice in the beautiful Prudential Buildings in the heart of Bristol’s city centre. eOffice provided stunning modern furnishings at an affordable rate. Their swift progress and acute management allowed mango to setup and open their office with great ease.

Find out more about us at: www.mangostudio.eu

In an attempt to shake up the already turbulent mobile phone market, Microsoft unveils the moderately anticipated Windows Phone 7 . The big question is….Does it really stand a firm ground against the likes of the iphone (or otherwise, ipad mini) and the Google Nexus?

Microsoft decided to adopt a slightly varied approach to its design and user interface compared to the Apple iphone and its league of second graders. Microsoft deliberately wanted to get away from icons and this notion that all behaviors get the same size button on the home screen, and you definitely get more of a sense of priorities here: Entertainment, social networking, photo sharing—those matter, and oh yeah, here’s a phone if you need a call, and here’s a browser if you need that too.

It’s hard to tell from looking at this stuff, but much of it is customizable, including almost everything on that home screen.

[ Article Source: Gizmodo ]