June 10 is National Ballpoint pen day. Why celebrate such a seemingly simple item? When it was invented, the ballpoint pen was revolutionary. The writing apparatus was invented by Hungarian painter ...

Junyi Zhao in the McKelvey School of Engineering demonstrates using a simple ballpoint pen to write custom LEDs on paper (left). The same pens can be used to draw multicolored designs on aluminum foil ...

If any one product were to sell at the incredible rate of 57 units per second over the course of a year, it would have to be considered one of the most commercially successful consumer products of all ...

Dreamt up by DDB Tribal Düsseldorf GmbH and produced by MediaMonks, the Universal Typeface experiment is seeking penmanship contributions and demographical data from all over the world to create a ...

Technology continues to simplify the exchange of information in general and for on the fly note-taking and sketching in particular. Some 50 years ago, the ballpoint pen became a popular and practical ...

At the very tip of a ballpoint pen is, you guessed it, a ball that rolls around and basically stains the paper with ink. Imagine if you dipped your body in paint and then rolled around white carpet, ...

EXCELLENT MATERIAL:The ball point pens assorted colors is made of high-quality metal,smooth surface,comfortable touch,the ballpoint retractable pens adopt lightweight clip design,touch screen pens can ...

Researchers working with Chuan Wang, associate professor of electrical & systems engineering, have developed ink pens that allow individuals to handwrite flexible, stretchable optoelectronic devices ...