The Only Metal Pen You’ll Ever Need

A pen is a pen is a pen, right? So you’d think, but let’s face it, we’ve all got a preference — ball point, fine, feather-tip, preferably something that hasn’t run out of ink, won’t bleed all over your fingers, and, if you’re a lefty, doesn’t end up smudged all along the side of your hand. But what if there was an inkless pen that never ran out on you or bled all over?

Now this is cool, and is one of those centuries-old technologies that have crept back in to ease our modern life — get ready to throw out that pen caddy full of half dead/half chewed pens.

Back in ye olde medieval times (think Renaissance Festival, but less drunk), artists and scholars like da Vinci and Rembrandt often used a metal stylus to draw on specially prepared paper leaving a light-black mark that didn’t rub off or fade. The trick, now fitted in a stainless steel 8cm long pen, is a solid metal nib of metal alloy that leaves a mark on most types of paper; you may have some trouble with glossy and coated surfaces, but this thing works like a charm on your standard office and notebook papers. And since there’s no ink, there’s nothing to dry out, so the pen will work just as well in 25 years as it does today, provided you don’t go and lose it.

Delivered in its own metal presentation tin, the Metal Pen is a fabulous gift (for yourself too!) and, when you think about the hundreds of dollars you’ll spend over time on crappy plastic toss-aways, it’s a real deal at $29.98.