Gearfuse

This pen is just a hunk of metal alloy molded to look like a pen. Why is this significant? Because it does exactly what a real ink pen does: writes on paper. It doesn’t leave the same type of mark that an ink pen does, this pen’s marks cannot be erased or smudged! At only $30, it’s a bargain, and  the maker rates it at longer than a 25 year life span. A cool little bit of history:

In the Medieval period, artists and scribes often used a metal stylus in order to draw on a specially prepared paper surface. Generally known as Metalpoint, or Silverpoint when the stylus was made of silver, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Rembrandt all used this technique.

High tech? Maybe it’s more innovative than high tech; it’s making the best use of what we have to do better than current ways. — Nik Gomez

Metal Alloy Pen [via Newlaunches]

This new keyboard definitely confuses for a second. It is the New Standards Keyboard created by John Parkinson because “things that make no sense have always bugged me.” At first glance, this looks even worse than a QWERTY keyboard, but when you study key placement, it actually makes some sense. All of the alphabet keys are in alphabetical order, the arrow keys are directly in the center, each thumb has its very own space key, and there are only half as many keys here than on a QWERTY keyboard.

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