Swiss Military Pen

The Swiss are highly regarded for their precision pen knives. And now they're taking things one stage further by fitting 13 essential items into a precision pen!

Constructed using Aircraft Grade Alloy, this sleek bit of kit includes a flat screwdriver, hole puncher, steel file, short cutting blade, ear pick, nail remover, long cutting blade, tweezers, phillips screwdriver, steel fork, saw and a writing pen. (Kitchen sink not included).

James Bond would be lost without one of these beauties.

The pen un-twists into three cylinders, each with storage slots to hold the various blades. The two knurled cylinder joints also contain tools on each side. Made out of a rugged yet lightweight aluminium alloy, the Swiss Military Pen is great for campers, hunters, do-it-yourselfers, repair people and gadget-levers.

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Gravity Pen

The gravity pen uses the principle of intersecting magnetic fields to hold itself in place as if suspended by nothing but air. Combined with a contemporary design it is the perfect desktop accessory. A beautifully weighted pen finished in chrome.

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Expressive Pen

The designers at Philips have been busy "emotionizing" their products, what with the cuddly Aurea TVs, and their emotional reactive jewelry. Now they have got designs on the humble pen, with a patented invention for a writing implement that actually records the mood of the writer while they're writing stuff. Its finger contact sensors detect give-aways like heartbeat, skin temperature and the pressure you exert on pen and paper, which it then uses to actually morph the look of the ink stroke.

While a biro may be a fantastic at scribbling notes, Philips thinks that they can actually increase your self-expression with this device. By processing data from the skin sensors, the pen switches flow from different ink canisters and uses actuators to modify the pen nib, allowing for different colors, stroke widths, styles and even ink flow continuity (presumably for that scratched-out-blobby desperate note to loved ones).

Since your emotions are given away by things like skin conductivity and heartbeat—after all, that's how lie detectors work—this idea may one day end up as reality. Future documents of historical note may yet be signed with such a pen, giving away how nervy the signatories are and "Dear John" letters may never be the same again.

[Via Gizmodo.com]

Pen Features 4GB of Memory and Rechargeable Laser Pointer

This ball point pen looks ordinary enough, the only visible difference is the small button located near the top of the shaft, and the hole at the tip. As almost anyone would guess, that button controls the laser pointer on the end of the pen. That’s not the only useful feature of this pen, as it also opens up to reveal a 4GB USB flash drive. While those two features are somewhat common these days, you don’t see them built into the same pen very often.

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USB-Memory Card Reader-Writer Ball Pen

Thanko Spydisk USB-memory Card Reader-Writer Ball Pen: 512 Mb flash memory, SD Card Reader, USB bus power.

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Spike Cactus Pen

This nubby, tactile pen in a vibrant kelly green, is simply studded with personality. You won’t want to put it down; but when you do, it fits quite naturally into a miniature terra-cotta- finished pot. Spike Cactus Pen measures 5.5" and it's flower pot holder comes in at 1.75" tall.

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Digital Pen: Office in Pocket

The EPOS-enabled Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive provides all the benefits of a digital pen with the addition of full Flash memory capabilities. Completely portable, users can write, sketch and draw freely anywhere, using regular paper, while the device simultaneously captures and stores all handwritten text and drawings in real-time to the Flash memory.

A multi-functional tool, stored data can be later uploaded to a PC via a standard USB port. Once uploaded, handwritten information can be transformed to text using standard handwriting recognition software, and notes and drawings can be edited and shared via email and messaging applications. Providing all the benefits of a regular Flash drive, the Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive stores hundreds of pages of handwritten text and drawings as well as image, music, and video files, etc.

Small, compact and completely wireless, the Digital Pen & USB Flash Drive can be used everywhere. The perfect alternative to carrying a heavy laptop, it is ideal for taking notes and jotting down diagrams in both the meeting room and the classroom. It can also be used for assisting sales force, technicians and delivery persons in the field for a variety of form filling and enterprise applications.

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Pen with Paper

Scroll pen combines an easy-flow, ball point tip with a barrel that conceals a handy roll of paper. The very cool part of this pen is that you don't have to tear off the paper in order to write on it, but you can simply pull the barrel (bottom) away from the top and you then have a pen to write with and you can scroll back the paper into the cap to maintain a journal.

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Metal Pen Forever

A stainless steel pen, 8cm long. However when you unscrew the top, the 'nib' is a solid piece of metal. There is no ink, yet this pen will write on virtually any type of paper. This is what it looked like when we tried it on a piece of normal paper...

How does it work?

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.

This pen is a modern version (and do not use silver). The solid metal 'nib' consists of a metal alloy, that leaves a mark on most types of paper. If you use the sort of paper typically used in printers and photocopiers, the pen leaves a mark that looks as if it was made by a pencil. However the line will not smudge, and cannot be rubbed out. Since there is no ink, there is nothing to dry out, so the pen will work just as well in 25 years time as it does today. And of course it never needs sharpening!

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Ergo Pen Prevents Writer's Cramp and Calluses

The human hand dictates the design of this ergonomic pen. A distinct Y shape allows the ergo pen to support the weight of your hand without the need for your fingers to firmly grip the pen's sides.

This tension-free ergo pen allows you to write comfortably for hours.

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