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     An Iowa elementary school principal was taped onto a gym wall by his students on Friday，November 5th，2014.Principal Ryan Castle of Colorado Elementary School in Iowa，America let 27 students in his school tape him to a gym wall.He stayed up there，with his both feet suspended(悬浮) above the floor，from the morning until lunch time.

     Ryan Castle earlier promised to the students that if they sold 10，000 fall festival tickets，he agreed to be taped onto a gym wall at his school.Unexpectedly，the students had sold 11，000 fall festival tickets by October the 31st.He kept his promise and he let the students tape him onto a gym wall.

     Twenty－seven top－selling students were allowed to tape Ryan Castle up.Ryan Castle was photographed wearing a fake mustache because it was Mustache Day for the school.It was not the first time that principals were taped onto a wall in America.Ryan Castle's case comes after at least three other recent cases of school principals being taped up on the wall for a good cause.

     On last Wednesday，Jay Woller of La Crescent Elementary School in Minnesota America was taped onto a wall after $21，000 was collected by his students through fundraising.And last month，Randy Ten Pas of Hull Christian School in Iowa America was taped onto a wall with duct tape.He was taped on a 300－feet－tall building wall in his school—as a symbolic reward for students' fundraising efforts coming to $3，300.Randy Ten Pas was photographed wearing a green cap and with a drawing of the Denver Broncos logo(商标) next to him.At St.Mary Catholic School in Orange，Texas，principal Donna Darby offered a similar ticket－selling challenge to students in September.He was also taped onto the wall in the end.They kept their word and set good examples to their students.

    Open work spaces definitely have their benefits，but they come with the drawback of offering employees little to no control over visual distractions(干扰)．With so many people around and so much going on，some of us can easily get disturbed by this information overload and lose focus in what's really important．That's where the Focus Cap comes into play．

    “As we are still cavemen or mammals kept in an unnatural environment，I believe that only by reclaiming(收回)the normal，stress-free human state through simple tools and techniques can we finally release our actual creative potential and create our meaningful work for a brighter future，”says German designer Hannes Greblin，inventor of the Focus Cap．

    After looking at other products designed at minimizing visual distractions，Greblin decided that most of them were either too expensive or too uncomfortable to become mainstream，so he decided to go with something much simpler —a simple cap with a retractable visor(可伸缩的帽沿)．

    Greblin's Focus Cap is really straightforward．You just wear it like a regular cap'with the sides of the visor retracted，and just collapse the sides whenever you need to focus on what's ahead of you．Whether you're trying to focus on a task in an open work office．Trying to study at university，or practicing yoga in a park and trying to ignore stares from strangers，the Focus Cap can help．

    To be honest，this whole project sounds like a joke，but the Focus Cap does have its own website where people interested in this unusual accessory can actually sign up for updates on when it will go on sale．Greblin claims it will cost 30 euros($37)plus shipping．