Don’t know about you, but from where we’re sitting desk space is definitely at a premium nowadays. There’s the laptop, the laser printer, the lamp, the monitor, the gold embossed silk lined pizza cutter, all stuff competing for our precious desk inches. Which makes it hard to justify sticking yet another gadget on there. Unless it’s friendly!

Which is precisely why this Vertical Paper Shredder attracted our attention. It apparently requires as little space as a desk lamp, and has an automatic feed which can devour our waste documents at a rate which would make Godzilla proud.

It also comes with a handy handle which makes it easy to carry to the nearest trash bin for emptying, and the say the noise is conversation levels when it’s in operation. Godzilla would be disillusioned. It holds up to 1.3 gallons of paper per load and costs $79.95.