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Wednesday, 10 February, 2010
Pencil Conservation
(with comments)
A solution for short pencils: Pencil Connector.
You'll find it difficult to hold the pencils as they become shorter and shorter. So what will you do with them? Throw them away? Well, other guys prefer to connect two short pencils together with a short tube and then use them as a long pencil. Though most students have already though of that and done that, it is Hoyoung Lee, Youngwoo Park and Jinyoung Park that make the wonderful idea a product- the 1+1=1 Pencil Connector. As a result, you could reuse stubby pencils by changing them into a longer one.
Here's how it works:
- By Bisbonian. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @08:30am:I get ads for these all the time.
- By . Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @08:36am:You mean they actually sell those! Now I wish I had some pencils.
- By Inti. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @08:37am:Uh, these have been in use for centuries...
- By . Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @08:39am:This is not new. My grandmother continued to use her pencil stubs with something like this. That must have been 45-50 years ago. People who came through the Great Depression were very conscious of conserving resources.
I learned that behavior from my mother and grandmother. I can get the last little bit of toothpaste out of a tube :)
I don't, however, use pencils much and the one I do use is a mechanical type. - By Shel-tone. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @09:03am:I need this for my eyeliner pencils...
- By . Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @09:22am:why not have the pointy end stick out on both sides?
- By mare. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @10:07am:\me heads to IKEA to... uhm... procure some free short stubby pencils.
- By Minderbinder. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @10:27am:What am I gonna do with all this duct tape now?
- By . Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @11:11am:What's a pencil?!
- By Admiral Tinfoilhat, ret.. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @12:18pm:Looks intriguing, but I didn't see a FAQ anywhere. Will this device work with Dixon pencil stubs as well as with Ticonderoga? Will it work with a pencil I bought a few years ago, or only with the newest models?
I've already been burned by my iPencil: One has to send it back to the shop for lead refills. - By Mr. Pointer Outer. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @02:19pm:That diagram is so gay.
- By robert.wood (B). Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @02:24pm:A wasteful device. You need two short pencils for it to work, so you'll always be stuck with one unusable short pencil.
After long and hard thinking, I came up with a much better device: the Pencil Enlarger (R). Essentially, it's the same tube, only two inches longer. No short pencil on the back end needed. A 112 page Patent Application has already been filed.
Now, where can I collect my Nobel Prize Coin? - By Omar. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @05:08pm:The only pencils I've used in the past 20 or so years are the ones you get on the golf course. I feel guilty doing it, but I end up throwing most of them away.
- By Hot for teacher. Comment posted 10-Feb-2010 @08:14pm:
pencils...[like] the ones you get on the golf course.
Those pencils are already short and stubby.
Maybe they should market this product to golf courses.