Gadget shows the cost of meetings in real day. Brilliant!

I just wrote a column that week about the gazillions of dollars companies waste on pointless, unfocused meetings (among other things). My solution is to replace some of those meetings with social networking tools. But here's another solution: Bring

TIM! is a $24.99 real-time meeting cost calculator. Just enter in the average hourly rate of the employees in the room, plus the number of employees. The price of the meeting ticks by like a gas pump.