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WinkPen Uses Wine, Beer and Other Liquids: Creative Juices

While conceptualizing a sustainable printer, designer Jessica Chan found out that inks used in traditional cartridges are not 100% biodegradable. In pursuing her idea she ended up making a pen that could be refilled with practically…

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Printable, Thin & Flexible Displays: PrintScreen

Devices with paper-thin or flexible displays have yet to become mainstream. But the researchers behind PrintScreen recently proved that we can make simple but incredibly thin and flexible displays right now, without the need for high…

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Awesome Batman Sleeve Tattoo: Where Does He Get That Wonderful Ink?

There is something about the colors in the older comic books that today’s comics just don’t have. They were bright and vibrant and just jumped off the page in a way that today’s do not. Maybe…

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Innovations in Ink Making Spurs the Advent of New-age Devices

Synergistic growth translates into one technology being able to complement the advances in another. The same principle can be applied to the recent innovations in ink making. Its technology is deeply integrated in electronic devices and…

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These Bath Salts Let You Bathe in Ink

When most people say “bath salts” these days, you think they’re talking about the nasty drug trend that’s been sweeping through the nation lately, and not something you actually use for a relaxing soak in the…

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Star Wars Continuous-Line Drawings: The Pen is Mightier than the Lightsaber

You’ve probably done doodles with a single continuous line while talking to someone on the phone, but Star Wars geek Sam Hallows took it to a whole other level by crafting these intricate drawings of Star…

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Invisible Ink Printer Hack: Way Too Much Work For Something You Can’t See

If you ever wanted to send secret messages using your computer, you could just embed secret messages in your image files. But if you want to print out hidden messages, you can hack your inkjet printer…

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Fun With Old Ink Cartridges

Got some leftover inkjet cartridges lying around? You could just send them back to the factory so they can be recycled – er, cleaned out, refilled and then sold to some other sucker for way too…

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Color Picker Pen Might Make That Box of 120 Crayons Obsolete

When I was in grade school, crayons served as our introduction to the art of one-upmanship – you have a box of 8? Well your seatmate has a box of 16! So you tell your mom…

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Ultraviolet Spy Pen Lets You Write and Read Invisible Messages

Here’s a handy way to keep a secret. Just grab one of these ultraviolet invisible ink pens, and you can leave yourself hidden messages that you can easily decode using the same pen you wrote them…

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Pac-Man Gets the Mosaic Treatment

Here’s a piece of art any retro game fanatic would be proud to hang on their wall. It’s a handmade Pac-Man mixed media piece, using teeny ceramic tiles in place of pixels. Perhaps inspired by the…

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Inkjet Cartridges Get a Personality

These wacky collectible desktop figurines get their inspiration from inkjet printer cartridges. Mark James’ Cardboy CMYK Cartridge critters comes in the four familiar printer ink colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. The 4-inch tall figures are…

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Zink: Color Printing Without Ink

While most conventional printers use ink, toner or wax to print, these new portable printers from Zink will print full color images without applying any substance to the surface of the paper. Instead of ink or…

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Lapazz D-Note Digital Notepad With Color Recognition

I’ve seen a number of paper-to-digital note recorders over the years, but this is the first time I’ve come across one that can actually recognize multiple ink colors. The LaPazz D-Note DNA500 from UC-Logic is a…

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WinkPen Uses Wine, Beer and Other Liquids: Creative Juices

Printable, Thin & Flexible Displays: PrintScreen

Awesome Batman Sleeve Tattoo: Where Does He Get That Wonderful Ink?

Innovations in Ink Making Spurs the Advent of New-age Devices

These Bath Salts Let You Bathe in Ink

Star Wars Continuous-Line Drawings: The Pen is Mightier than the Lightsaber

Invisible Ink Printer Hack: Way Too Much Work For Something You Can’t See

Fun With Old Ink Cartridges

Color Picker Pen Might Make That Box of 120 Crayons Obsolete

Ultraviolet Spy Pen Lets You Write and Read Invisible Messages

Pac-Man Gets the Mosaic Treatment

Inkjet Cartridges Get a Personality

Zink: Color Printing Without Ink

Lapazz D-Note Digital Notepad With Color Recognition

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