How many times have you been jotting down notes when out of nowhere, your pencil flies out of your hand? Countless, right? Okay, so you might not need grip dots to keep your pencil in…
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Machined Brass Bolt Pen
If you’ve graduated from using just hotel freebie pens and are in the market for a new writing instrument, check out the Machined Brass Bolt Pen. The machined pen’s bolt action makes it fairly addictive…
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Rezon Multi Notebook
The combination of graph paper, sticky notes, flash cards, legal paper and the black college style notebook that was popular on Ghostwriter back in the day could lead to an entire drawer or backpack of…
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Sharpie Stainless Steel Permanent Marker
You likely gained an affinity for Sharpie markers sometime in college, when you were adorning your friend’s forehead with the appropriate motifs of vulgarity and genitals. Along those lines, you likely learned about the ink’s…
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Hardcore Hardware Australia TWI01 Pen
You’re probably already half way through the checkout process to buy this pen based on the pictures and the fact the brand is named Hardcore Hardware Australia. If you’re not, the TWI in the name…
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Field Notes Expedition Edition
Finding a portable pad of paper to keep track of your thoughts is not a difficult task. Binding a bunch of pieces of paper together into a pocket-sized notebook is all the rage these days,…
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TiBolt Titanium Bolt Action Pen
Seeing as how this is a Kickstarter project for a pen it should come as no surprise that we love it. It’s also bolt action, which is our new favorite in terms of pen mechanisms.…
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Sandy Relief Notebooks
The Cool Material office along with most of our employees are located in New Jersey. Despite lost power and a few downed trees, we all made it through Sandy okay. Some of our friends, family…
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Sky Wifi Smartpen
We have an addiction to pens and notebooks. You know this. As much as we love them, and use them on a regular basis, they’re inconvenient when it comes to collaboration, archiving and not accidentally…
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Schrade Tactical Pen
Don’t believe what you’ve heard, pens are not mightier than swords. Sure words can hurt, but have you ever had an arm chopped off by a Bic? Swords freakin’ hurt. The Schrade Tactical Pen might…
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Approved: Pens
Many of you reading this, and the guy writing it, can’t justify spending money on what we affectionately refer to as “Rolex class pens.” Those are your Montblancs, Krones, Tibaldis, etc. Spending a couple hundred…
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The X-Pen
At this point, it’s safe to say if we had a single ounce of CAD in our design wheelhouse we would dedicate ourselves to creating pens solely for Kickstarter campaigns. Unfortunately, we don’t (yet), so…
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Solid Titanium Pen and Stylus
It should come as no surprise to any of you that we have addictions when it comes to cool products. Right now, we’re hopelessly addicted to buying pens on Kickstarter. Aluminum, titanium, steel, stylus, ballpoint,…
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EiMIM Pen
Most of the pens you own you didn’t purchase. They appeared in your home or your bag through some sort of weird pen osmosis. They are fine for scribbling “To Do” lists around the house,…
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Bolt Action Tactical Pen
When the adage “The pen is mightier than the sword” was first coined, it is safe to say the Bolt Action Tactical Pen was not in existence. If it had been, the phrase would’ve needed…