To sharpen the giant public artwork, LOTI Pencil creator and wood sculptor Curtis Ingvoldstad made a 4-foot-tall wooden pencil sharpener that he hoists onto the tip with help from his friend John ...

More than 1,000 people gathered Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a ...

For the next thirty years, the pencil sharpener would be mass-produced across the world in various different sizes, shapes, and modes of whittling and scraping off wood . Yet, the pencil sharpener ...

If you use those old fashioned wooden pencils then you might still need to buy a pencil sharpener. Well an artist came up with these 'Living Dead Dolls' Sadie Pencil Sharpener that not only ...

After the pencil was invented in the late 1500s there remained the problem of how to keep it sharp. At first the pencil was just a stick of graphite that could be rubbed to a point. By the 18th ...

In fact, this isn't really a camera -- it's a pencil sharpener. The design is delightfully ... and to actually do the wood-shaving you turn the film-winding handle on the side.

The graphite at its core can't be used for writing until a pencil sharpener chews away its wooden tip. Now picture microcin B17, an antibiotic that kills E. coli bacteria. Before being activated ...