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If you want to learn to do something properly, you’re going to have to fuck up every once in a while. Mistakes are what teach us the right way to do something. Without them, we’d be under the impression that everything is perfect, even if it was far from.

Writing and drawing are both skills that take an exceptional amount of error and practice before they can be mastered. Unless you are lucky enough to have some sort of freaky innate savant talent, you’re going to screw up… a lot. The Celebrating Mistakes Pencil by Tom Wrigglesworth (imagine having a name like that in grade school) and Mat Robinson allows for as many errors as you can stomach, with plenty of eraser to spare.

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Once in awhile, I come across an invention that blows my mind in terms of creativity and functionality. Jay Silver’s Drawdio most certainly fits into that category. Drawdio is a pencil that has a simple synthesizer hooked up to the graphite. Based on the conductivity of graphite, drawing on paper will produce various different sounds creating a one-of-a-kind music experience. This is user-interaction on a whole other level.

Believe it or not, you can build your own Drawdio. The famous Lady Ada is selling kits on her website for $19.50. What are you waiting for? DRAW!

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Admit it. When you used to do your homework, you’d drift off into space and find yourself tapping away with your pencil on a imaginary drum set. It’s ok. Everyone has done it, loser. These Drumbstick Pencil’s are specifically made for boredom-led drum solos.

These pencils convert the eraser-end of the pencil to a drumsick head, making the imaginary experience all that much more realistic. But you most likely still sound like crap. No offense. We don’t expect you to sound like Rush’s Neil Peart with a pair of writing utensils. — Andrew Dobrow

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