Some of the toys I'm nostalgic about are kind of environmental plastic disasters. I loved these "push pens"
But there's no way to refill them. You just have a lot of plastic bits when the lead runs out...
I wonder if that could be redesigned...
The idea of having a bunch of ready sharp points of lead is nice.
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@futurebird Propelling pencils or clutch pencils?
@futurebird An electric pencil sharpener changed my life but have you noticed how difficult it is to buy 2B pencils?
@futurebird I remember those having a core of the next points and being able to load a little tower of sharp points that fit together into the back? I can't find any internet evidence for this […]
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@futurebird Can't seem to get to your server atm to read the other posts, but I guess I have to ask the question others are probably already asking: why not just a mechanical pencil with fine […]
@futurebird I really wanted to like these for aesthetic reasons but they were outperformed by even the most pedestrian of mechanical pencils.
@futurebird are you serious ._. if i lost just one of those little nib things the whole pencil became useless.
give me a sanrio scented eraser any day :D :D :D
@futurebird @blogdiva then graduated to a mechanical pencil in high school. Felt very clever just using one 😝
@futurebird I felt my most Yang as a kid sharpening my pencil with the small blade of my swiss army knife. Not nearly as effective as using the tiny plastic purpose designed tool but very […]
@futurebird the closest equivalent i can think of is that some 2.0mm lead holders like the rotring 300 have built-in sharpeners under the button cap instead of an eraser
@futurebird I used a Pentel .5mm mechanical pencil during the period when I was still graphing quadratic equations by hand. No, the point was never as sharp as a freshly sharpened wood […]
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