If you carry one "black, oil-based, 0.7mm" ballpoint pen for signatures, you will never have trouble with contracts or credit ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most unsung ...

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The evolution of writing implement technology is a continuous and subtle one. Lewis Waterman opened up the possibility of portable pens with his invention of a practical fountain pen in 1884. But ...

The battery never runs out; you never have to worry about getting a bad signal; it can’t get hacked. When this new device was launched, crowds lined the streets, desperate to get their hands on it. “A ...

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 ...