You don't need amazing computer graphics, bowel-jiggling surround sound, or eye-popping 3D effects to make a powerful film. In fact, all you really need is a tall stack of yellow sticky notes and a black pen. And a whole lot of talent. Luckily, the 15 animators who helped make this short film had all of those in…

Olympus has been teetering on the edge of nailing mirrorless camera design for years. In fact, many would argue that last year's retro-fantastic OM-D E-M5 bordered on perfection. Aesthetes fell in love with its looks at the same time that real, serious photographers were amazed at its spectacular image quality.

North Korea hates Park Sang-hak, a former citizen and now South Korea resident and activist against the brutal regime of the Kim Jongs. They hate him so much that they sent a killer agent to eliminate him using these James Bond-ish weapons.

Olympus has seen great success in the mirrorless camera world with its PEN series. The line's latest iteration is the E-PL5, a micro 4/3 camera that shares a few details with its more expensive brother, the OMD-EM5. It shoots beautifully—what's the catch?

Standard pen ink is the surprise component in a flexible carbon fibre supercapacitor which can be bent in a full circle with barely any loss of performance.

The web is full of secret online weapons stores and places you can legally load up on ammo. But the pen is mightier than the AR-15. Especially this bolt-action bullet pen.

I don't know about you but, as a Photoshop nerd, I love this Adobe color picker drawn with a multi-colored pen. [9gag]

This woman swallowed a felt-tip pen in 1986. Back then, she told the doctor and her husband what happened, but they didn't believe her. Now, 25 years later, she went to another doctor and they found the pen intact inside her stomach.

Olympus just announced that its new PEN E-PM1 Mini Micro Four Thirds camera is going to be out in September for $500. That's kind of amazing.

The Jot is a bastardized iPad stylus that seems to think it's some kind of high-born pen. It wears all the trappings of a simple yet elegant ballpoint pen, but it can't deny what it is.

If it's wrong, well, I don't want to be right. Though what I would like is $483 and the nerve to actually buy this box of 150 Pantone reference color-pens. You can buy them in packs as little as 12, but where's the fun there? [DickBlick via Werd]

A warning to the nerd who dares mix his ballpoints with this pen! It's a dangerous life for a nerdlinger, now the University of Illinois has introduced a pen that writes electrical circuits in real silver.

From the pages of "my-god-it's-so-simple-why-didn't-I-do-that-first" comes these spiral ballpoint pens, which hold double the amount of ink in their tightly-spiralled coils. But let's do the math. Are these going to save our fine planet from drowning in landfill? Let's look:

I spied Gizmodo's Joe Brown using these blue and red pencils, and immediately wondered where they came from. Turns out they're "Slang Pencils" from Greenwich Letterpress and they come with 90's era sayings like 'Mad Props' and 'Off the Hook'. I don't know about you but I like my writing tools to be as retro cool as…