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WYN Just Revealed the World’s Most Minimalist Pen
Portland-based design studio WYN Labs has produced more than a few influential products–like the WYN Bullet Emergency Window Breaker Tool–over the years, but despite the fact all their products have been influential, few hold a candle…
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Dango P01 Ball Point Pen
Despite the fact we’re making almost all of our purchases with touchless pay options these days, there’s still the odd occasion that requires you to John Hancock a check or take note in your trusty…
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22STUDIO MERGE Desk Pen
The pen can certainly be mightier than the sword if you throw it, and it happens to be made out of concrete. This unique pen and stand set is handmade from high-density concrete. It’s big,…
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J.L. Lawson & Co. EDC | Mark Pen
A great everyday carry pen shouldn’t be too big, too small, or too light. The point is to know you have it in your possession without it being cumbersome, but it must also have some…
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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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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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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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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…