A hands-on look at a novelty ballpoint pen that writes with ink designed to vanish over time. The video demonstrates its ...

Open Culture's retrospective of one of the world's most successful consumer products opens with a reminder that you don't need to be shown such things because they're everywhere. Bich (the foreign ...

In 1903, Mark Twain, the legendary American author behind such seminal works as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Gilded Age, extolled the virtues of the Conklin Crescent Filler — a unique ...

Pens and Pencils On June 10, 1943, the patent for the ballpoint pen was filed. To celebrate National Ballpoint Pen Day (#BallpointPenDay), we've pulled together writing implements from across our ...