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Erascan Concept Whiteboard Eraser Can Save While Deleting

Lambert Varias — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:00:23 +0000

We’ve become digital pack rats. We save even the crappiest pictures, bookmark articles we’re never going to read and hoard enough music and videos to last us several lifetimes. Why? Because we might need them someday. Because they might be sources of inspiration or reference. Because we can. So I’m not surprised that this oxymoron of a device exists. The Erascan is a whiteboard eraser that can save the very thing it’s meant to remove.

But just like our increasingly powerful mobile devices, the Erascan doesn’t just have two functions. It can also recognize the information it scans, such as handwriting, URLs or email addresses. You can also share and delete – for a second time! – the stored data from the Erascan itself.

There are already whiteboards that can save what’s scrawled on them (among other things), but a device like the Erascan is a bit more useful simply because it’s portable. Although if we’re going to make stuff up anyway why don’t we go wild and imagine an eraser that can un-erase – i.e. re-write or re-draw – whatever it erases?

[via Yanko Design]

Star Wars Gomu Erasers: for the Rebels Who Still Use Pencils (and Paper)

Lambert Varias — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:00:33 +0000

I honestly can’t remember the last time I used a pencil, but if you’re still using those sticks of dead things to write on sheets of dead trees, you can correct your mistakes with the help of the Force. The force of your own hand and these officially licensed Star Wars erasers.

Made by collectible eraser maker Gomu, the set is made of 8 erasers, “including five that aren’t found anywhere else.” Of course they don’t mention which of those five are the rare ones, which will keep me up all night. Meh, it’s probably the four lightsabers plus the X-Wing. Or one of the lightsabers plus the other four. No wait. Seriously which of these are the rare ones?!

The set also comes with a 13″ lightsaber box. I agree – it makes no sense, and yet the thing exists:

You can order the Gomu Star Wars Eraserland collection from ThinkGeek for $15 (USD). I hope a list identifying which of these are the rare ones is included.

[via Coolest Gadgets]

Eraser Pencil Gets All Used Up, Lets Nothing Go to Waste

Hazel Chua — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:30:01 +0000

Traditional lead pencils are made of wood and have a small eraser stub at the end so you can rub your mistakes into oblivion. But often, these erasers are of poor quality and leave your paper with a nasty hole instead of erasing the offending mark.

The manufacture of hundreds of millions (or even billions) of wooden pencils all over the world also results to the cutting down of a whole lot of trees.

For these two problems, there is but one very simple solution: the Eraser Pencil.

It’s the pencil that lets nothing go to waste. There’s no wood to shave off, no metal components to hold the eraser at the pencil’s other end. That’s because, instead of wood, this pencil is made up of (you guessed it!) eraser.

Sure, you might end up with eraser shavings instead of wood pencil shavings, but if you’re the conscientious recycler, then you can just melt it up over a flame and form another eraser with the shavings instead.

This is still a concept though, designed by Deuk Young Lee. The pencil has been around for ages, and it’s refreshing to see someone still come up with such a concept that’s not exactly new, but still novel at the same time.

[via Oh Gizmo!]

This Robot Uses Pencil Erasers as Bumpers

Karen M. — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:00:26 +0000

This is a pretty sweet autonomous robot that employs pencil erasers as bumpers. It’s called No. 2, Champion Autonomous Mini-Sumo Robot (a name that just rolls off the tongue, no?)

It was made by David Cook (not the American Idol winner, though, it’s a different David Cook.) The process of making this bot is detailed, and I do mean detailed, on his website Robot Room.

You can see a really quick video of this robot vs. a block of wood (?!?!?!) below:

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Of course, the sadist in me wants to flip those pencils around and sharpen them to a point to make it a more stabby robot, but that would be more offensive than defensive, I suppose.

[via Make:]