Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

An award-winning artist has visited 53 nature reserves around the UK to produce drawings using a ballpoint pen. Cy Baker, who ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

Made from aluminum and stainless steel, it starts out completely flat and barely thicker than two credit cards, but rolls and fold into a hexagonal emergency ballpoint pen. You can pre-order it ...

They’ve produced airplanes, launched satellites and churned out some of the best smartphones, so it seems almost incredible that China has been stumped by the humble ballpoint pen. Until now.

Ewan Cunningham of Primal Space used detailed animation to explain the history and the ingenious vascular design behind the iconic BIC Cristal ballpoint pen, it’s ability to make other early ...

A verbal altercation turned violent this weekend when a Santa Barbara man allegedly stabbed another man in the neck with a ballpoint pen. The assault was reported on March 30 around 11:30 a.m. on the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - A person was stabbed with a ballpoint pen in Huntsville on Friday morning, according to Huntsville police. Officers responded to a business on Sivley Road near Huntsville ...

A grade four pupil from Limpopo has died after accidentally swallowing a ballpoint pen lid. The incident happened on Monday ...

(2) An electronic ballpoint pen that digitizes, stores and transfers what is written or drawn to the computer. Instead of a mouse, a digital pen provides a very natural way to hand write and hand ...

The first patent for a ballpoint pen went to America’s John J Loud in 1888. His rolling ball design worked, but it wasn’t well suited to writing on paper. The patent lapsed. But that wasn’t ...

“I’ve tried with other ‘proper’ mediums like acrylic, oil pastel, even pencil, but I think the pen suits me best.” Equipped with a simple ballpoint pen, Syahbandi is able to depict ...