The whole point of a mechanical pencil is to have perfect sharpness forever. Yet without precise engineering and build quality, the standard slender leads are doomed to constant breakages. This ...

Though the Apple Pencil is simple on the outside, the inner workings of the iPad Pro stylus are a major technological achievement, a new analysis from the silicon experts at Chipworks has found. Upon ...

Indonesian artist Veri Apriyatno explores the human form and emotion through his hyper-realistic pencil drawings. This series ...

The S Pen has been a key selling point of many of Samsung’s products over the years, and the company is now debuting a “Creator Edition” of its iconic stylus for Galaxy devices with a couple of key ...

London designers Studiolav have declared the pencil redundant and redesigned it for life in a pencil-pot graveyard. The Design is Dead Pencil has a cruciform shape and comes in black, of course.

With the increasing dominance of touchscreen technology, one might think that the pencil as a writing instrument is doomed.(Angie Garrett CC BY 2.0) There is something wholesome about the humble ...