Soon after, businessmen were profiting left and right, because they were free to manufacture ballpoints in their countries. Although Biro may have invented the first functional ballpoint pen ...

Don't use official markers on ballots, Republican representatives told voters at polling stations as they handed out ballpoint pens on Election Day. Bring your own pens was the message to voters ...

She explains that the type of pen grip taught in contemporary grade school is the same grip that’s been used for generations, long before everyone wrote with ballpoints. However, writing with ...

And how does it look? With so many varieties out there, from plastic ballpoints sold by the dozen to thousand-dollar fountain pens hunted down by collectors, we became determined to find the very ...

Julius Wright is taking hip-hop down to its bones. The South Philadelphian, calling himself the Lyrical God, uses ballpoint pens to bang out beats. His unplugged rhythms are starting to get noticed.

Dust off those Bic ballpoints and college-ruled notebooks: research shows that taking notes by hand is better than taking notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information over the long term.

There is a premium on the cost of the Bics for Her product line targeting women. The pens, which we wrote about earlier today, are pink, small, and bejeweled—and have attracted ridicule for ...

Giving up, I defaulted to the ubiquitous ballpoint. Ballpoints were the pens of the age, and I didn’t think any more about my writing utensils for several decades. Fountain pens can make writing ...