On Sunday, Woodring will demonstrate the pen publicly for the first time at the Gage Academy of Art, dipping it in a 1-gallon ink pot and drawing giant cartoons on 6-by-4-foot drawing boards.

Writing by hand, which speeds literacy and information retention, is on the decline. That worries neuroscientists, educators—and Bic. Never fear: The pen giant has a plan to preserve handwriting ...

(His grandfather, Marcel Bich, started the company in 1945 and launched the BIC ballpoint pen in 1950.) “The way you learn things by writing with a pen and paper or drawing is inherent to our ...

"It's a whole new ballgame," Woodring said. "No one's ever been able to see a pen drawing like this, as far as I know, because these things are utterly new." You could say the Vashon Island artist ...

Now, the Italian pen and paper giant has added a standalone smartpen, called the Pen+ Ellipse ($179), to its Smart Writing System flock. The primary (and almost sole) difference between the Pen+ ...

“Save the Rocket Pen for the 21st Century. It might work better as a gadget than a song*.” Three decades later, Sir Elton is sitting in his office, bored of songwriting, flipping his Bic.