Inkless pen

Juniper Foo | Jan 11, 2007

Curse of the leaking ink? Tell us about it. Stained fingers aside, yours truly had a perfectly good bag strap accidentally inked to the point where no ink remover would salvage it. Which is where this little pen makes a great addition to your writing arsenal--since there's no ink involved. Uncapped, all it has is a solid metal tip that actually writes on any paper type. No tricks. Just good, old science which borrows from medieval times when scribes and artists used silver-tipped styli to scribble on specially prepared paper. Silver being too rich for today's humble stationery, the modern version employs a metal alloy that leaves marks on paper much like a pencil. There're tradeoffs, of course. You can't rub those marks off, and you certainly won't be marking papers in red.

Get up close with the writing

Via popgadget.net

Price: US$23.53
Availability: Mid-January at Grand Illusions catalog
Device: Pen
Specs: 8cm long

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