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You write, and you play, the Katapult Pen is rightly something that may bring you both knowledge and entertainment. But remember, you can merely play with it after the class…

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Welcome the Penclic Mouse to America and Canada. As a pen-shaped mouse that ensures the users a comfortable working experience, this Swedish-designed mouse will finally come to the North America where it would be available at Best Buy, Walmart and other major retailers. Till now its price is not yet confirmed, but it is quite sure that the device will be sold in both wired and wireless versions, just as in Europe.

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The world’s leading manufacturer of digital interface solutions “Wacom” have recently issued its Inkling, a magic pen set that transforms paintings or writings finished on paper into digital ones. With such an amazing function, the device would soon change the way we paint and write. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Jennifer Lewis & Jennifer Bernhard, two professors from University of Illinois, have collaborated with a silver-ink pen that will greatly change the way we draw working circuits. The new pen will leave ink on paper or cloth, which will then dry into silver trails tough enough to survive bends and folds so as to keep its function of conducting electricity. In other words, you can sketch circuits on anything that can hold the silver ink, isn’t that amazing? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Solid can be used as ink? What a crazy idea! But indeed it is really amazing, because Inkless Metal Beta Pens don’t need sharpening and they’re permanent and smudge-proof. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ok, let’s firstly make it clear that this wearable pen may be just a design for fun… Because viewers will seldom find it practical even though this  pen claims to be an innovative item that allows safe using from water when you’re in bath. It is molded with plaster and there’s a real pen embedded inside. Simply wear it on your nose, wow, your nose now becomes a pen too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Wacom recently launched its Bamboo Stylus, a premium digital pen especially designed for iPad. It aims to help iPad users to further experience the convenience of handwriting, editing, drawing or sketching with their iPads. A 25 percent slimmer tip than main competitors not only ensures the users a more comfortable writing, but also brings a real writing feel as that of a real pen. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You’re someone who is used to having pencils or pens in mouth when using them? Too bad these edible candy pens couldn’t come to you earlier so that you would have had safer eating. Designed by Dave Hakkens, they can be broken up into small segments for biting and most importantly they won’t melt in your hands. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Although bookmarks are created for us to mark a book, we in fact often use a pen instead so that we can always make some notes on the book. Steve Yang Che-Hsiao must have the same experience as that we have and the designer has created a new pen dubbed “Bookmarkpen”. While in bookmark mode, the gadget is so compact that you can easily put it between the pages without any thickness to the book. And if you need a pen, simply fold the bookmark and then a pen is instantly transformed. Nice concept. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Here on I New Idea we’ve shown you various kinds of scissors that are embedded with an amazing concept. And to add one more scissor to that list, we’d like to introduce the Pen Scissor. It is designed like a pen, which allows the scissor to be easily stored in any boxes or you can just pin it onto your books. And to give you one more reason to choose the Pen Scissor, we would say that it is as kawaii as all other Japanese stationeries so you’ll need one to make yourself look cool, too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who could find his/her markers in the possible shortest time? Our answer is Doron Livne, the designer of the Upstanding Retractable Markers. Similar to Weeble Wobbles, these markers can stand up on their own or struggle to make themselves upright so that you would never have to look for a pen in a hurry. Besides, the sketch marker also has a retractable nib, which reduced the chances of leaking nibs. But can such a marker last long as it doesn’t have a cap? [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’ll be the smartest tool in your pencil boxes. To draw straight lines, locate the “Constrained Ball” at the tip of the pen, move the drawing aid and then done! So with this writing tool, everybody can draw straight lines without the help of a ruler. But that’s not all, as the tool is also equipped with a measuring wheel that allows the users to draw desired line length in three directions—horizontal, vertical and 45-degree angle. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can you imagine how thin lines a pen can create? These LEGO toys designed by 2010 Cannes Award winning advertising agency Grey have given us a new answer that the Pilot Pen can create really superthin lines to make fantastic tattoo on such mini figures. Isn’t that unbelievable? Use the Pilot Pen and you’ll know that’s completely true. [Read the rest of this entry...]

May it have you feel disappointed or not, I’d still like to declare that the ‘Sprout’ Pen is merely a concept from Igor Lobanov before we start the topic. But it’s really a refreshing idea, featuring a housed plant in the bulk. The containment plant lives on the ink, which means you will see the plant inflate and change color from yellow to vibrate green as the pen sits in the inkwell and takes in the ink. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Especially designed for specific designers, the wonderful eVouse concept combines two important functions in one: a mouse for laptops and a pen sensor for design works. Its unique triangular design not only means appalled comfort, but indicates great convenience. [Read the rest of this entry...]