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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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Griffin Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer

We're suckers for any product that serves multiple purposes. Slap a radio on that toaster and we are sold. When said product is actually super useful and makes our current workspace just a little bit sharper, well than that is a bonus. For us iPad users (though obviously it works on other…

By Mike Newman
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Wacom Inkling Digital Drawing Pen

If you’ve been known to practice some nude life drawing on the weekends (no, that’s actually not a euphemism for anything) but you’ve never made the transition to digital art, now is the time. Wacom—the company behind the only drawing tablets worth owning—has designed a pen that converts your ink…

By Cool Material Guest
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Midori Brass Pencil

Unlike the word processing programs (let's just lump Excel and Powerpoint in here for argument's sake too) you use to finalize reports, write memos and tally sales, real life doesn't have an undo button. You might be able to ctrl+z your way into that promotion, but it won't unsend an…

By Ben Dahl
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Kaweco Liliput Al Fountain Pen

We're all for the convenience of e-mail, instant messaging, texting, Facebook messages, Twitter, Google + and whatever the new electronic communication method of choice will be tomorrow, but they all feel cold and emotionless. There's only so much that emoticons and hearts can convey, so if you really want to…

By Ben Dahl
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Pen Type-A: A Minimal Pen

People that live in the Far East have access to a lot of really cool stuff that never makes it way stateside, and we're not talking Hello Kitty and schoolgirls. Along with sweet kicks and some foreign soil only automobiles, there is a pen that's well worth importing. It's called…

By Ben Dahl
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