{"id":36402,"date":"2009-11-04T22:20:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T03:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=122462"},"modified":"2009-11-04T22:20:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T03:20:49","slug":"video-japanese-pen-and-pencil-grab-bag-from-jetpens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/36402","title":{"rendered":"Video: Japanese pen and pencil grab bag from JetPens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hMQ5gazaNgI%2Em4v\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><br \/>\nThe Japanese, I am told, really love their stationery. Pens, pencils, erasers, special paper, cases for everything &mdash; one trip to Muji, my favorite store, will confirm this. Unfortunately, stationeriphilia in the US is more of a high-class &#8220;my pen is made out of solid gold&#8221; affair. So when JetPens, an etailer for Japanese pens and miscellany, offered to send a couple of their favorite things, I accepted gladly. There&#8217;s so much stuff there that I just had them select a few things at random &mdash; and this is what I got.<\/p>\n<p><style type='text\/css'>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t<\/style>\n<p>\t\t<!-- see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php --><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-122462'>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/beetle_point.jpg' title='beetle_point'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/beetle_point-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"beetle_point\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kaweco_kaw-050_1.jpg' title='kaweco_kaw-050_1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kaweco_kaw-050_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"kaweco_kaw-050_1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kokuyo_keshi-hu600w_1.jpg' title='kokuyo_keshi-hu600w_1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/kokuyo_keshi-hu600w_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"kokuyo_keshi-hu600w_1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nomadic_epd_03_black_1.jpg' title='nomadic_epd_03_black_1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nomadic_epd_03_black_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"nomadic_epd_03_black_1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sailor_12-0111-040_1.jpg' title='sailor_12-0111-040_1'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sailor_12-0111-040_1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"sailor_12-0111-040_1\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class='gallery-item'>\n<dt class='gallery-icon'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/uni_m54501p.24.jpg' title='uni_m54501p.24'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/uni_m54501p.24-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"uni_m54501p.24\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both;' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/product_info.php\/products_id\/4547\"><br \/>\nA stylish little fountain pen<\/a> &#8211; thinner and more portable than your average fountain pen (or quill).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/product_info.php\/products_id\/3796\">A chubbier fountain pen<\/a> &#8211; what can I say? It&#8217;s chubbier.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/product_info.php\/products_id\/3219\">Mechanical pencil with auto-rotating lead<\/a> &#8211; I haven&#8217;t been able to observe it very closely, but supposedly this pencil actually rotates the pencil lead just a little bit every time you lift the tip from the page, meaning you&#8217;re always using a fresh and sharp part of the lead. True? Possibly. Awesome? Definitely.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/product_info.php\/products_id\/4815\">Twist eraser that&#8217;s all corners<\/a> &#8211; a great idea. It&#8217;s a little wobbly, but the fact that it&#8217;s made up almost entirely of corners means you can erase little lines without messing with the neighboring letters or other bits of drawing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/product_info.php\/products_id\/4400\">Standing pencil case<\/a> &#8211; honestly, not too exciting. I have one of these already, it&#8217;s called the cup on my desk.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetpens.com\/product_info.php\/products_id\/4826\">&#8220;Beetle tip&#8221; highlighter<\/a> &#8211; you can highlight all the text, use just a little tip to circle or whatever, or you can put lines above and below. Not such a huge advance over the traditional wedge shape, but hey, why not?<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, this isn&#8217;t a stationery blog. But I think sometimes we forget that there is innovation and weird stuff going on where you least expect it &mdash; in mechanical pencils and stuff. You like gadgets, so why not have a gadgety pen, or have a crazy pencil that sharpens itself? 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