20. NeatDesk

Neat
$500
http://www.neatco.com/products/neatdesk

E-mail and other electronic documents have replaced much of the actual paper used in most offices. So why is your desk still a cluttered mess? This year, Neat came out with a great—albeit expensive—solution: a scanner that turns business cards, receipts, and all manner of papers into digital documents that can be parsed for the important stuff and transferred to separate applications. BW's Steve Wildstrom gives an example: "Once you have scanned in a batch of receipts, you can file them in folders, then send the contents to small-business accounting software such as QuickBooks and Peachtree."

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