Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Jared Joyce (Check out Jared on Twitter and FaceBook) who is an inventor that just so happens to have quite a few cool office supplies that he is working on.  In addition to inventing innovative office supplies, Jared also introduced me to an awesome website, Quirky.com which  is a Social Network focused on the new product development process.  The site relies on group feedback to influence products in areas like potential names, packaging, logos, and tag lines.  If you contribute some of this information to a product that ends up being successfully produced and sold, you can in turn earn a small % of revenue from the sale of the products.

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-I am excited that Sharpie has come out with a new Medium Point Sharpie Pen which of course I’ve ordered and hope to review soon.  Many thanks to one of my awesome readers, wild violet for pointing this out.

-Jennifer Love Hewitt has an official invitation to write a guest post here at OfficeSupplyGeek.com after this comment:

“I love office supplies,” Hewitt told PEOPLE at Tuesday’s grand opening of Esprit’s flagship store in New York.  “I love being organized. It’s the folders and the tech … [Staples] is a place to take me if you want me to get hot and bothered.” (link)

So if Ms. Hewitt is reading, feel free to use the contact link above and we can work on that guest post or an interview.

And also I think Staples is missing out on a hysterically funny opportunity with that “Wow!” guy from their commercials, I can think of plenty of scenarios for a commercial with him and JLH that would be really funny.

-Lastly, I didn’t even know there was a US National Inventors Hall of Fame, but there is, and last week they inducted Art Fry and Spencer Silver, the inventors of the 3M brand Post-it pad.  Seems like it would be long over due for them to get this type of recognition.

In my previous post I highlighted the top 10 office supply reviews from 2009, based on the number of visitors to each review.  Today, in what I hope will be an annual tradition, I wanted to highlight those items that I personally thought stood out from the pack.  I try to make sure that all of the reviews here are reviews of really cool office supplies that arent the type of thing that you might find in your standard office supply cabinet, so to pick the cream of the crop from this already unique group wasn’t easy.  Id love to hear your thoughts in the comments section, if you would have picked different items.

I’m going to keep the list small, because I think that if I make the list too long, it probably dilutes the significance of being selected.  For each of the following categories there will be one winner: Best Pen or Pencil, Best Special Purpose Writing Tool, Best Notebook, Best Organizational Tool,  Best Green Office Supply, and Best New Product.

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When I read the Top 10 Pen Reviews that @dowdyism over at The Pen Addict wrote, I thought it was such a great idea that…well…Ill be honest, I couldn’t help but steal it and do something similar here.  : ) Before you continue on here, make sure you check out his post and also make sure you sign up for his RSS feed and follow him on Twitter too because if you are missing what he is writing, you are missing a ton of good stuff.

Ok, now that I feel slightly less guilty about blatantly stealing his idea, lets take a look at the top 10 office supply reviews for 2009.  Keep in mind, these are not my selections, they are simply the reviews that readers of this humble blog about cool home office supplies happened to click on the most over the last 364 days.  There will however also be an “Editors Choice” post early in 2010 where I select what I think were the best in some of the different office supply categories, because by default there is  a significant advantage/disadvantage for today’s post for any items that were reviewed either very early, or very late in the year this year.  So without further delay, here they are starting with number 10……….

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• Win $150 worth of free fashion office supplies from Carolina Pad.  Your deadline to enter is Monday, May 25th at 11:59 PM Easeten.
• Check out the always interesting Ink Links from The Pen Addict.
• My Moleskine 2.0 Contest to show off how you hack your Moleskine and win a lifetime supply of Moleskines.  Contest deadline is May 31, 2009.
• More love for the Sharpie Pen.
• Free Office Supply Icons.
• Oh Staples…I’m already bad enough at math, this calculator doesnt help things any.
• A case for the small office supply store.
• Office Supply Addiction, its a sickness.
• If anyone wants to by me this office chair, Id be glad to do a full review of it, as a huge Yankee fan, this is a must have.
• Some really cool sculptures made from Scotch Tape.