So, it's still going to go dry if you stop to tell somebody the time of
day while writing something?
On 2/14/14 6:21 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Office Depot just had an exhibition of office supplies on campus (they're our
official 'office supplies supplier'), so I picked up some freebie pens,
notebooks, and such.
One of these was a new 'Sharpie Pen'. One of these
<http://www.sharpie.com/enUS/Pages/retractable-fine-point-pen.aspx>
First thing I noticed was that it seems to have an absurdly long 'clicker' on top.
<http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aSm10hYDL._SL1500_.jpg>
Looking carefully I found why. There's an entire retracting cap system inside
the pen end, so that when the tip is retracted it's sealed in, like a regular
sharpie with it's cap. This means that the whole retracting system has to move
farther, pushing the cap out of the way, hence the absurdly long 'clicker' end.
There's a crapload of engineering that went into this pen.
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