Gizmodo: pencil

"Apple Netbook" Student Project Is a Pencil-Drawn Beauty

Dan Nosowitz — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:35:00 EDT

This little project has been making the rounds as the "new Apple netbook," which, unfortunately, is way off. But the truth is pretty cool anyway: It's a beautiful pencil-drawn, wooden model.

Student Kyle Buckner made this 3/4 scale model out of wood, with real working hinges and everything, and hand-drew the Dock, icons, keyboard, trackpad, and even the little Philips screws on with a pencil. It also features a magnetically-attached "screen" that has a pull-tab underneath. When pulled, the tab shows a very cool film strip drawing with illustrations of the wonders of Mac. Check out the gallery below for more shots. [Kyle Buckner, thanks Kyle!]

Peg Pencil the Bastard Son of a, Yep, You Got It, Clothes Peg and a, Soz, Pencil

AddyDugdale — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:47:18 EST

This retractable pencil, by Yuta Watanabe, is very Muji, if you ask me. Yuta's amusing yet functional design should have no problem finding its way onto the desk of architects, creatives, the odd eco-freako and, of course, washerwomen whose unemployment, thanks to electric clothes dryers, has meant they have had to find alternative employment as Gizmodo writers. [Sub-Studio via SwissMiss]

Guru Disciples Build Giant Pencil, Call It 'World's Largest'

Charlie White — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:45:00 EDT

Now that pencils are finding their way into obscurity, here's a divinely inspired team of craftsmen who decided to construct a gigantic memorial to the obsolete writing utensil, calling it "the world's largest pencil." But wait a minute here. Suspiciously missing are the dimensions of this construction project, but you can see and hear a guy calling out a number, "76, 2 and three-quarters." We got even more curious when we saw that it's commemorating the 76th birthday of Sri Chinmoy, the religious space cadet who claimed to have lifted 7000 pounds with one arm.

So if that's the "world's largest" pencil, it must beat this 65-foot whopper made by Faber-Castell, ensconced at the company's headquarters in Malaysia. Rather than a tree painted yellow, this one has polymer lead running inside the full length of the pencil and took 7,000 man-hours to build. It's actually listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest. Maybe it's time to change the record books...?

We're wondering why the Guru Chinmoy didn't go ahead and lift that "world's largest pencil" with one arm. [Tech E Blog and Faber-Castell]

Digital Pencil, Save Your Fingertips

msparkes — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:14:37 EDT

Thinking of buying that super-expensive graphics tablet? Maybe you don't need to, because Suck is offering this digital pencil that mimics the human finger, allowing it to be used on touchpads.

Using a pencil is more intuitive than drawing with a touchpad, but I'm not sure how useful this is actually going to be, cute as it is. It's made from a "super-special space age silicone" and should be available soon. [Suck]