This is not novel. They’ve had stapleless staplers for many years.
I used to be into antique office equipment for my steampunk telegraph office. I knew about those. We had a Bates stapler which took in a roll of brass wire and made its own staples instead, though. Those are available on eBay if you want one.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Stapleless-Harinacs-Handheld-Portable...
Steampunk was fun while it lasted. This video was made in 2014.
Attendees could text messages via SMS to the system which drove the Teletype machine. Messages were printed and delivered by the messengers. We had antique desk accessories - a Bates sequential number stamp from the 1890s, the stapler that made its own staples from brass wire, and lots of rubber stamps. You can see those briefly on the desk.
We did this at five or six cons. The guy and girl shown were drama students, refugees from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. As experienced actors, they could bring all this off with more style than usually seen at cons. They're married now, by the way. Good people.
We gave it up when COVID hit.
It looks like the campaign is closed now though.
"We CNC'd a public domain mechanism out of a billet of brass and you'll buy it for $100"