A Clock to End All Those Pesky Meetings

"Time is Money was never so true"—nor self-serving

Ever wanted to claw your eyes out from extreme meeting boredom? Bring TIM! thinks it can come to your rescue, by calculating the cost of money wasted on those marathon closed-door sessions.

On the main unit is a bright green start button on the right, and controls to adjust the average monthly salary and number of attendants in the meeting. Once you slam down your fist on the green button for effect, the realtime computation starts.

Anyone who cares can see the money wasted steadily increase as the meeting goes on. The math behind this tool is pretty simple, a straightforward multiplication of the number of people at the meeting, with the average hourly rate, and the time. Oh, Bring TIM also doubles as an ordinary clock.

Bring TIM is marketed as a way to cut down on meeting time, by clearly showing how meet-ups hit the company where it hurts most: the bottom line. Clearly strategy sessions have their place in the workplace—and perhaps the only way to coordinate efforts to make loads of money—but meetings should be short and sweet, no?

Yet Bring TIM also carries a risk. Maybe your boss will think the best way to save money is to hand you a pink slip. No everyone in management has a sense of humor, especially when their employees spend all day surfing NSFW websites and sleeping at their respective desks. Are you brave enough to get Bring Tim for the office?

Bring TIM! ($25, inclusive of shipping and handling)