If I had to go back to high school math class again, the Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil is the only pencil I’d take with me. Why? Because it has a twist and turn mechanism that automatically rotates its lead to keep a perfectly sharp point every time you write. More »
I spied Gizmodo’s Joe Brown using these blue and red pencils, and immediately wondered where they came from. Turns out they’re “Slang Pencils” from Greenwich Letterpress, and they come with 90′s era sayings like ‘Mad Props’ and ‘Off the Hook’. I don’t know about you but I like my writing tools to be as retro cool as possible. $US8 for an eight-pack. [Greenwich Letterpress]
While this pencil bookcase would’ve been fairly easy to make, it would’ve been a bitch of a job to drill in 15,000 precisely spaced holes for the pencils to sit in, don’t you think? More »
Someone called David Yoon has reconverted his Rock Band drum kit into what any student (former or not) will recognise as the One and Only True Form of Drumming: pencil drumming. He replaced “the smallish stock piezo transducers with bigger ones from Radio Shack” and reconverted the pedal with a foam and CD sandwich. This way, David says he can do the Ringo at 2am without waking up the neighbours. [Flickr]
This retractable pencil, by Yuta Watanabe, is very Muji, if you ask me. Yuta’s amusing yet functional design should have no problem finding its way onto the desk of architects, creatives, the odd eco-freako and, of course, washerwomen whose unemployment, thanks to electric clothes dryers, has meant they have had to find alternative employment as Gizmodo writers. [Sub-Studio via SwissMiss]
