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BIC 4-Color 3+1 Ballpoint Pen and Pencil

Only the truly VIP-ish students had the iconic BIC 4-color pen, at least from what we recall. Black, blue, red, and green ink pen cartridges housed in a single body was just nuts back in…

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The MiniSwitch Pen Transforms from Pinkie-size to Full-Size in Seconds

If you’ve spent any amount of time reading Cool Material, you know how much we love a good notebook and accompanying pen for our EDC. There’s just something about physically writing things down with pen…

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CDT Multi Functional Pen

Tired of having to switch between separate black pens, red pens and mechanical pencils based on what you’re working on? Want that old school nostalgia of the multi functional click pen from your youth? Check…

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Astronaut Pen Holder

If you’re anything like us–and we know you are–you need to write down your daily tasks, honey-do and shopping lists the old school way with paper and a pen or pencil so you can make…

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Lamy Made a Pen with Wacom EMR Digital Writing Tech

We’ve been big fans of the pen producers at Lamy since long before we finished a piece about the best notebooks and pens for work. Lamy has always produced high-quality writing implements capable of tackling…

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Grovemade Pen

When it comes to the best desktop accessories, there’s nothing more important than a good pen and there’s almost no better manufacturer than Grovemade. Finally, after more than four years, Grovemade has combined their loves…

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Wingback Mechanical Pen

Cursive might soon be considered a lost art thanks to the ubiquity of portable computing and smart devices. But man will hopefully always need writing implements, and what better way to treasure the art of…

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Pen Type-C Is as Thick as a Refill and Doubles as Bookmark

We’ve spent a lot of the time over the past handful of years collecting what we feel are the best pens out there for notes, to-dos and daily record keeping. This all started with the…

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Cuttleola Dotspen

Whether you’re an amateur practitioner or a renowned artist, if you’re looking to upgrade your pen-and-ink game, you’re going to want a Cuttleola Dotspen. Built with a magnetic coil-driven mechanism powered by a rechargeable lithium…

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Refyne EP1 EDC Stainless or Titanium Bolt-Action Pen

We first heard about Refyne when they released the P1 Titanium Pen & Flashlight. The combo device quickly became an essential part of a minimal, modern EDC, but despite the fact that the flashlight was…

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Darter Is a Micro Pen with a Sewing Kit Inside

We’ve covered a lot of Kickstarter pens over the years. So many, in fact, that we’ve put together separate features on Kickstarter pens and nice pens that will last forever that both showcase excellent writing…

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The ManualPen Is Made From a Single Piece of Metal

It’s rare that a pen design is truly new. Most pens we come across are some alteration of someone else’s design. That’s why the ManualPen is so intriguing. It’s a design we’ve never seen before.…

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The Benton Pen

Too many fine pens look like they belong to stuffy old dudes who sign checks with a scowl. The Benton is the quality pen for the modern guy. Built with a solid 304 stainless steel…

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NanoPen Is the World’s Smallest EDC Pen Tool

San Francisco-based Slughaus has been on a mission to completely revolutionize everyday carry for as long as we can remember. There was BULLET, the world’s smallest led flashlight. BULLET 02, the new world’s smallest LED…

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Machined Field Pen

Travel pens shouldn’t just be smaller pens; they should be pens built for the demands of life on the go, meaning there should be an uptick in quality and durability. That’s why we dig the…

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