Archive it old-school with wired, LED-lit filing cabinet

The iMD Smart Filing System links all your folders to an online archive.

(Credit: Tim Hornyak/CNET)

LAS VEGAS–The paperless office is a utopian dream. We’re still surrounded by mountains of paper, especially organizationally challenged people like yours truly.

Enter the iMD Smart Filing System, a rather charming blend of analog and digital tech. Shown off at CES 2013 by the unheralded iMicroData, it lets you find an individual paper folder and its contents in old-school filing cabinets.

If you’ve lost your birth certificate, for instance, you just look it up on the app that comes with the system, and it’ll tell you what drawer to look in.

It’s almost as simple as completely analog filing cabinets, but you don’t have to use your brain all that much.

The drawer unlocks automatically while its LED blinks. You open the drawer, and look for the blinking folder. There’s your birth certificate.

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