An Everlasting Pencil

What a smart idea, the never ending (well almost) pencil. The manufacturers say you can get 10 miles worth of doodling before the pencil tip dulls, this sleek and sophisticated pencil may out live you!

How is all this possible, well unlike a traditional pencil the ‘Everlasting All-Metal Pencil’ is made of aluminium and a special alloy core containing graphite. Of course graphite is the usual material of the humble pencil, but this design uses some smart science to make some important upgrades. Yanko Design say:

“That special alloy core contains graphite, the very same graphite used in all pencils, and the friction caused by writing or drawing leaves particles of this graphite and alloy behind. But because it uses metal for the core rather than the usual clay or charcoal, it wears down so slowly that you might think your all-metal pencil will actually outlive you.”

With the appearance more of a stylus than the typical stripy HB, the sleek design has a matt feel and is weighted very satisfyingly. You can erase your marks like normal pencils and it has the added bonus of not smudging.

Even with all our wonderful technologies there is something so satisfying sketching with a pencil, jotting down annotations in margins and forming calculations with the smooth glide of your pencil nib. Now you can have one pencil to out live as all!

Originally found at Yanko Design.