Awesome Pens

Artists will go bonkers over this new marker, which can blend between multiple tones and intensities of ink from a single pen, allowing for seamless blends and gradations without the need for multiple pens. Here’s how it works.

A stainless steel pen that splits into chain-linked segments. You can use the bundled beads and cord to wear it as a bracelet, put it on your pants’ belt loop, etc. It also comes with a stylus tip. We hope it came with better beads though.

Similar to Livescribe, Bamboo Spark’s pen-and-paper combo digitizes your handwriting. It can store up to 100 pages on its own and transfers notes to mobile devices via Bluetooth. The Bamboo app lets you rewind, edit and share your notes. Drops 10/15 for $160.

Kokuyo’s Beetle Tip highlighter pen gets its name from its horned tip, which lets you highlight in bold, sharp or with two lines to keep the marked part unobscured. Kokuyo also has a dual-color variant.

A military-inspired writing instrument made from mil-spec 6063 aluminum, finished in anodized black with a powder coated spring steel clip and a tip that looks like a gun muzzle brake. Easily refillable with Pilot Dr. Grip refils.

Back in stock! This handy gadget combines a writing instrument with a stylus, philips and flathead screwdrivers, level, 3-scale ruler and an eraser all in one. Available in yellow, black or silver; ballpoint or rollerball variants.

The Equil Smartpen 2 builds on its predecessor, adding support for Android, Windows and OS X alongside iOS. It now has internal storage, so you can digitize notes and sketches even without a computer, then just import them later.

A stylus and a pen that have a color sensor, letting you copy and store colors from the real world. Use the stylus on your computer or mobile device, or get the pen and use your colors on paper, thanks to its built-in CMYK ink cartridges.

Unlike other 3D printing pens, the kid-friendly CreoPop doesn’t have a hazardous heating element. It uses UV light to cool and solidify its ink. It has a variety of inks, including magnetic, glow-in-the-dark and scented inks.

Adobe solves the iPad pen dilemma. The Ink is a elegant aluminum stylus with a precise tip and pressure sensitivity, and Slide augments on-screen drawing with a tactile ruler for drawing lines and other shapes. Full review on Technabob.

Formerly called Lernstift (“learning pen”) VibeWrite is a refillable pen that helps you learn English. Currently, it vibrates to point out spelling errors. Future updates will enable it to help improve your handwriting and grammar.

Like the 3Doodler, Lix is a handheld PLA/ABS 3D printer that makes creating objects as simple as writing or drawing. It’s main advantage is its compact size, making it more comfortable to hold. Hey Lix guys, the camera is over here.

These unique aluminum alloy writing instruments each have a special cap which can be used as a spinning top. The weighty metal objects can help you pass the time, or help you figure out if you’re trapped in a dream or not.

Equil JOT is an ink pen that can record what you’re writing or drawing on paper in real time. You can then edit, annotate and share your work from your iOS device. However, your device cannot be in sleep mode while you’re recording.

A 3.3″ pen made of hard anodized aluminum. It has a bolt-action mechanism and a hole for threading a keyring or a lanyard through. It will only work with Lamy M22 refills though (one is included with each purchase).

The new Livescribe 3 smartpen pairs to your mobile device via Bluetooth. Together with the Livescribe app and notebook, it will digitize what you write in real time. The app converts your handwriting to text, calendar events and more.

Create legal street art by writing messages in the layer of dirt and filth coating many smooth-surfaced urban objects. This fat-tipped marker writes using soapy water, so your art will be washed away in the next big rainstorm.

Andrew Gardner invented a pen and stylus combo with a body made of 12 small cylindrical magnets. Use its body as you would any other magnet or just play around with it. The pen is compatible with 0.3mm gel ink cartridges.

Smith & Wesson’s Tactical Stylus Pen is made of anodized aluminum. The body has a sharp pointed butt and a screw-on cap with a stylus tip. The pen uses a Parker-style refill.

FriXion pens use heat-sensitive ink that can be rubbed off. If you left your paper exposed to heat, Boing Boing says you can recover what you wrote by placing the paper in the freezer. It won’t work if you rubbed off the ink though.

Rite in the Rain’s Outdoor Journal Kit consists of a water- and dirt-repellent notebook, an all-weather pen that can write upside down or on wet paper and a durable carrying case. Available in different notebook sizes.

Ti-Click pens have titanium bodies and interchangeable capacitive stylus tips. The Ti-Click PRO works with 45+ types of rollerball refills while the Ti-Click RTS works with 35+ Parker-style refills.

An elegant and substantial pen crafted from solid aluminum alloy and the shell of an actual coconut. Each piece of the tropical tree nut is CNC machined and hand-polished to become part of the grip and cap of the pen.