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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
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The Most Famous Pen in History Turns 100 This Year
By Brett Braley
I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like
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I Moved To Ireland For a 3-Month Brewing Internship. Here’s What It Was Like

I spent the last three months of 2022 working at Kinnegar Brewing, an Irish craft brewery in Letterkenny, County Donegal. For homebrewers who want to learn what it’s actually like to work in a brewery, an internship like this provides invaluable lessons—including lessons that can be applied to being a…

By Dillon McLaughlin
The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging
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The Reversible ALTI Desk Mat Includes Wireless Charging

We'll always be big fans of desk mats. While our previous favorites were standard cutting mats, those were quickly replaced once we found out about the ALTI Wireless Charging Desk Mat. The ALTI features a premium vegan leather surface on one side and plush felt on the other, with a…

By Ben Dahl
Dango Products Pen Tray
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Dango Products Pen Tray

Depending on how serious you are about your personal writing instruments, you probably already have at least one or two pens from Dango Products. If you do, you’re familiar with their approach to manufacturing. Namely, they make attractive, durable pens and desk accessories out of machined aluminum. This pen tray…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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At Home: Take Better Notes with Word. Notebooks

Since many of us are still home, we decided to do some digging to find useful products to help stay productive, occupied, entertained and fit while you’re At Home. If the current times have taught us anything, it's that we need to be more organized about everything we're doing. We…

By Ben Dahl
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The 30° Ruler 4.0 Makes Measuring, Cutting and Marking Easier Than Ever

When we first set eyes on the 30° Ruler 2.0, we knew this easy-to-use, incredibly built and far superior option to other rulers on the market would become a tool we used every day. That held true after years, but that didn't stop their team from making an even better version…

By Ben Dahl
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Word. JAWS

Inspired by a certain aquatic summer blockbuster celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, our Jaws notebooks are classic Word. with a cinematic cover with just the right amount of flair. You’re not going to need a bigger notebook either because, like all Word. notebooks, this one features 48 pages of…

By Tim Jacobsen
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Olson Form Desk Accessories

Despite the fact most of us spend the majority of our work time in front of a screen clickety-clacking our way to productivity, there are a lot of other pieces of desktop hardware that make work life easier. We're talking about phone stands, business card holders, pens, paper clips letter…

By Ben Dahl
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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 the '70s and '80s, and the pen could just about do it all except help…

By Amos Kwon
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