I’ll never forget the first mechanical pencil I tried to use. It was a gnarly mustard-yellow, and I had to twist the conical tip to advance the lead.

Such pencils, though, had thick leads, and slack machining tolerances meant that there was a disturbing amount of play in their tips. They were not yet reliable tools for serious writing or drawing.

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Paper Mate Flair Felt-Tip Pens, Assorted Colors, 24-Pack: available at Amazon This full 24-count set in the popular 0.7-millimeter point size is the perfect way to add color to your writing at a ...

Most Case-Worthy : Yard-O-Led sounds like it would be the Party City of mechanical pencils; it is anything but. The small company is based in Birmingham, England, and has been making sterling silver ...

The tip of the pen itself is also pretty firm, ... The mechanical applicator means you never need to remember a sharpener — it'll always be fresh.

The suggested replacement from the shopper, as seen in the Instacart app—two packs of BiC mechanical No. 2 pencils. For a dollar more, in fact. The creator sent a message to the shopper, writing ...

Here’s our first look at the MSI Pen 2, a new stylus from MSI that can function as both a graphite pencil and a haptic stylus. It ships with the new Creator Z17 HX Studio, a high-powered gaming ...

The pen's design integrates a silicone-based magnetoelastic tip embedded with magnetic particles, ... mechanical stress from hand pressure deforms the tip and causes ink movement, ...