The design is an update on the ancient tradition of hanko (where a personal seal is used for official documents). It was created by Naoto Fukasawa for Shachihata, the world’s leading stamp producer. The pen is said to be “brilliantly lacquered, flawlessly detailed, and perfectly balanced.” You can buy one over at The Ghostly Store for $50 (USD).

[via Bookofjoe via Likecool]

If the LunaTik name sounds familiar, it’s because the man who designed this concept is Scott Wilson, the same Scott Wilson behind the LunaTik (and TikTok) watch bands for the iPod Nano. The same Scott Wilson who loves to use the letter ‘k’ instead of the letter ‘c’.

Tap on your tablet and head to Kickstarter to support the development of the concept. If you pledge at least $30(USD), you’ll be one of the first to own not one, not two – oh wait actually yes two LunaTik Touch Pens (the plastic model) – or for the same price you can have one of the anodized aluminum version. Wilson and his company MINIMAL launched their fundraiser just a couple of weeks ago but they’ve already exceeded their $75,000 (USD) target fund, so you can rest assured that your money is in good hands.

[via Co. Design]

Marvel Digital’s Soft Rubber Tip Stylus Pocket Pen doubles as a both a capacitive stylus and a pen, which is handy because when you’re not using it with your tablet or smartphone, you can write stuff on paper with it.

The main problem I’ve had with styluses is that they don’t allow you to use multi-touch gestures, which can be annoying. The capacitive ones are also not that precise either. Still, if you have use for a one, the pen/stylus combo sells for $10(USD) from Marvel Digital.

In its default state, you’ll find the conductive tip at one end and the laser pointer on the other end near the clip. Simply pop off the stylus half to reveal the refillable pen. Here’s an unboxing of the product by Jordan Klekot:

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You can order the Stylus + Pen + Laser Pointer directly from Griffin for $50 (USD). I’m waiting for this multifunctional pen trend to escalate until Brando comes out with one that also has a mouse, keyboard, trackpad, joystick and gamepad. And a bottle opener. And chopsticks. Because Brando.

[via Coolest Gadgets]

Ten One Design has just released a new stylus that will work with the iPad and other capacitive screen devices called the Pogo Sketch Pro. This capacitive stylus looks like a paintbrush with a larger rubberized barrel grip that tapers at the end of its aluminum handle. The tips are also replaceable for a long life.

The design of the stylus allows the artist to be accurate and make lines at different angles. I also like that this is the size of a normal paint brush rather than the short and more difficult to handle styluses I have used in the past. The Pogo Sketch Pro is available now, and sells for $24.95 (USD).

The ink of the pen is composed of silver, which, after drying, maintains conductivity even if it is bent or folded. This handheld device will lower the cost of producing certain types of circuits, and allow for the production of circuits directly on paper and other flexible materials.

The idea opens up a whole new range of flexible and disposable electronic circuits, as well as electronic art. The research team behind the prototype was led by engineers Jennifer Lewis and Jennifer Bernhard, from the College of Engineering of the University of Illinois. Their research is published in a paper called Pen-on-Paper Flexible Electronics in the Journal of Advanced Materials.

[via gizmag via designboom]

Or maybe you could use it to buy something insanely expensive, like the Devon Tread Watch or one of those gold Æsir phones. That, or I could blow everything to buy the Endless Happiness Pen designed by Anita Tan.

So the next time you hit the town with this pen pinned to your breast pocket, you can literally say that you feel like a million bucks.

Kidding aside, the Heaven Gold Pen was created to celebrate the beginning of the year 2012. Ironic, since it’s also a year that a lot of people say would spell the end for all of mankind. The pen is studded with over 161 sparkling color diamonds that will (forgive me) be sure to bring you endless happiness. Of course, you could just sell them off one by one when you get strapped for cash.

Now to address the big elephant in the room: how much is this pen worth? Well, just a few thousand short of a million, since it’s priced at $995,510. Did your jaw drop like mine did?

[via Gadgets Matrix]

You can order the Monteverde Stylus Ballpoint Pen from Colorado Pen Direct for $30 (USD). Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find a demo video showing how effective it is on a touchscreen. I do have a cheaper alternative though: stick a sausage on top of your pen. You’re welcome.

The name really gives away what this thing is all about. It’s a pen with ink and all, it has a inch and metric ruler markings on the side and a bubble level recessed inside as well. Under the lid, it has a small flat tip and Philips screwdriver for taking stuff apart and trying to put it back together. It’s also conveniently hex-shaped so it won’t roll off your desk.

The cool part is that it’s cheap at $14.95 each. If you have a geek on your graduation gift list to shop for, I would go with this pen since it won’t break the bank and it is really cool too. You can grab one over at the Neatoshop. They’re currently out of stock, so you might be able to find one over on Amazon too.

[via Neatorama]

Seriously, I could use those few items to craft weapons of mass annoyance. Throw in a sheet of paper and some bubblegum and I was a force to be reckoned with. These days I’m much more civil. This probably has something to do with my time being occupied with gadgets and such. Luckily this $5 Rubber Bandit pen is here to rekindle my love for flinging rubber bands.

This writing utensil works much like any other. Click the pen, and you can write. Click it again, and you can’t. However, if a rubber band is attached, one of those clicks will send the projectile towards your nearest co-worker. Of course, there’s just one question to be asked… how accurate is it?

[via UberReview]

The DAGi Pen still has a wider than normal tip, but it’s made out of a see-through material with a red dot indicating exactly where you’re pressing the pen on screen. That fixes one of the biggest issues with the other styli out there, which are usually so fat that they obscure the location that you’re touching.

Now, I’m not sure if the wide, flat tip of the DAGi Pen will be any less odd than the Pogo, but it’s probably worth a shot for now. I’m hoping that someday someone comes up with a fine-tip stylus for capacitive screens, but I’m guessing that physics are standing in the way of that achievement at the moment.

For now, the DAGi Pen looks like one of the better options out there.

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You can get your hands on DAGi Pens over at PDA Plaza for $20 Canadian (appx. $19 USD).

You can really imagine all of the cool drawing programs you could create if you could detect the pressure applied with a stylus, and the guys at Ten One Design have figured out a way to do this, even though it’s not officially supported by Apple.

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And therein lies the rub… Since they had to build a private function call to make this work, it’s not something they can make available in the App Store. Ten One hopes Apple will see what they’ve done and roll the capability into the UIKit framework, but for now we’ll just have to admire their programming prowess from afar.

Apple, please check out what Ten One has achieved, and roll it into UIKit so we can all enjoy it! Thanks.

Created in collaboration with Taito, these Star Wars Lightsaber Hiraku pens not only write, but they light up thanks to a colorful LED insider the “sword.” They’re working on four different models, including both Jedi and Imperial sabers to sign your contracts with. They look a little fat and stubby compared to a “real” lightsaber, but then again lightsabers aren’t really real, so I’ll forgive Taito and Lucas on this one.

You’ll have to wait until October 2010 to get yours, but NCSX is taking pre-orders now for $9.80 (USD) per sword.

Made by North Carolina-based Toner Machining Technologies, this XXXXL cousin of Swiss army knives measures 4.0 x 3.57 x 1.150-inches and weighs a whopping 7 oz. when empty. It’s made of “CNC machined solid billet 6061-T6 (tempered) hard coat anodized Aluminum”. Trust me on this, I’m a blogger: the more words it takes to describe a material, the tougher it is.

The picture above shows the tweezer, the round, pointy glass breaker below it, and the toothpick. Below you see the pen, and the inside of the wallet. The Tactical Wallet is lined with O-ring seals “to keep water, dirt and dust from entering the interior.” TMT also claims that the Tactical Wallet provides the “ultimate in credit card information protection by actually blocking your personal information from the theft of RFID type scanning devices.”

But what if there’s a nuclear bomb explosion? No problem! Just hide in the Tactical Wallet and it will protect and sustain you for up to a thousand years! Need a weapon? It’s got you covered! The Tactical Wallet is also a nuclear bomb! Need a friend? The Tactical Wallet has a great sense of humor, and is very sociable! None of those statements are true, of course. I think.

The TMT Tactical Wallet sells for $125 (USD). Interested parties can call 828-432-8007 for more information; call the same number if you want to order via credit card. You can also send a check or money order to: Toner Machining Technologies  PO Box 2876 Morganton, NC 28680. I bet MacGyver has a Tactical Wallet. Or not. He’d probably make one from scrap if he needed to.

[via The Gadgeteer]

If you need to use the reader half of it, just unscrew the pen to reveal the USB connector. I don’t know if you can use the pen half on its own though.

Maybe in the future we’ll have pens that can recognize our handwriting and store it as a text file, ready for us to plug in to computers  - or our heads! – for reviewing.

You can get the Four SD Slot Pen at GeekStuff4U for appx. $22 (USD); at that price you’d better not be the type who easily loses pens. The pen comes with two ink refills and a USB cable.

These Gundam-inspired ballpoint pens are being released as part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the series, and come in a variety of different styles. While I’ve always enjoyed the graceful, destructive force of a beam rifle, I have to say I’d really like to show up to all of my meetings carrying a pen that looks like a 280 mm Zaku bazooka. I only wish it would fire tiny little rocket-propelled grenades at the guy who creates a 50-page PowerPoint deck that actually has only two bullet points that actually mean anything.

Gundam Ballpoint pen weapons sell for ¥990 (appx. $11 USD) each. You can grab the entire collection over at StrapyaWorld now, but you’d better move fast before they sell out.

The Color Picker pen works just like the eyedropper tool in Photoshop. Use the rear end of the pen to scan the color of the objects around you, and then pen imitates the color by mixing red, green and blue ink, thus negating the need for an arsenal of crayons.

Or will it? A bunch of commenters at designboom have pointed out that the CMYK (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black; ‘K’ is used for black because blue already took ‘B’) color system is better suited for print compared to RGB, which is more useful for digital media. Back to the drawing board I guess.

Another designboom commenter, joolz, linked to a similar concept has already been developed by a bunch of MIT students back in 2004. It’s called the I/O Brush, and like the Color Picker pen it scans surrounding objects for color, but it can also scan for texture and even movement. However, the comically large brush is more complicated because it requires a digital canvas i.e. a touch screen, meaning it doesn’t produce real print.

[via Neatorama]

Each pen has a built-in ultraviolet LED light, you can read messages that are invisible to the naked eye. It’s perfect for writing down personal information like your PIN number or passwords – assuming of course that nobody else has a black light lying around, and you can actually remember where the heck you wrote your note. Keep in mind that while the ink is “invisible”, it’s also permanent, so don’t be writing nasty bathroom stall limericks on the walls of your house unless you plan on living with them in perpetuity.

If you want to exchange secret notes with a friend, buy a couple and play a game to see if you can find all the hidden messages you leave for each other. Of course, running around with a UV light in hand, you might come across other evidence of foul play you didn’t intend to. Don’t mind that blood spatter – it’s nothing.

The Invisible Ink Spy Pen is available over at Perpetual Kid for $9.99 (USD).

The Pocket Shark pen ($6.99 USD) might look innocuous enough, but it’s actually made from glass-reinforced plastic and designed to act as an self-defense weapon in the event of an emergency (or if you’re just a lunatic). And while its normal day job is as a permanent marker, this is no ordinary Sharpie.

According to it’s maker Cold Steel, the Pocket Shark  “features walls that are 4 times thicker than similar markers. This means it’s built for impact and, in a self-defense emergency it can become an efficient Yawara stick for driving off an attacker. Plus, the screw-top cap will stay in place and won’t pop off like a regular marker’s cap would when you strike a percussion blow, or when obtaining joint locks or submission holds. “ Yikes.

So the next time you head down to the accounting department and complain about their bureaucratic purchasing process, you’d better pay careful attention to the pens in the hands of the CPAs. You never know.

[via The Awesomer]

Perfect for labeling boxes, temporary signage, creating impromptu artworks or modern graffiti, the tape comes in either a dot-matrix or segmented style. Just grab a permanent black marker and mark out the appropriate white portions of the tape to reveal your message.

Designed by rAndom International for Suck UK, the tape should be available soon. Prices will range from £5.00 to £7.00 (about $10 to $12 USD) a roll.

[For some reason, all this talk about tape made me think of Flight of the Conchords].