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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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The Pen Project

Buying pens on Kickstarter has become an addiction. We could probably start a whole new website just based on the pens talented designers the world over bring to production using funding acquired through Kickstarter. We're not actually going to do that because it takes months for most of the people…

By Ben Dahl
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Pimp Your Cubicle

It's time to stop whining about not having a fourth wall to your office and start enjoying the space you've got. With a little bit of work, your cube could easily be the envy of the office. Here is some gear to get you started: This post is in partnership…

By Mike Newman
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Traditional Metal Lunchbox

If you brown bag it everyday and don't work on a construction site, we're guessing your lunch holster is pretty lame. It's not your fault, there's just not a lot of ways to appear like an adult when you've got a literal brown bag or a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…

By Mike Newman
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Buckybars

If you’ve never wasted a day at the office playing with Buckyballs than a) you don’t know what you’re missing, and b) we can’t be friends anymore. Seriously though, Buckyballs are awesome. They’re a huge choking hazard for, well, everyone, but we’re willing to overlook that on account of the…

By Ben Dahl
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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, it doesn’t matter. If it’s a pen and it’s on Kickstarter, we want it. There…

By Ben Dahl
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