The 100 best pens as tested by the writers and editors of the Strategist. They tested felt-tip, gel, rollerball, ballpoint, and fountain pens, including ones from Pilot, Baron Fig, Montblanc, Ohto ...

But for the company that went through 5,127 prototypes when designing its first vacuum cleaner, a plastic ballpoint pen just didn’t reflect Dyson’s commitment to design and engineering.

Types of Pens Westend61 Just as there are pens for different occasions, there are several categories of pens. While we could talk about the look, weight, ink or material of the body of the pen, the ...

Ever wondered what Tolstoy, Hemingway, and Orwell have in common? They were authors who penned manuscripts of their acclaimed works using a fountain p.

If you want to try writing with a cheap plastic disposable pen, the BIC Crystal is the pen for you. I hate scribbling back and forth on a piece of paper, trying to get a rollerball pen to start ...

Called 3Doodler, the £32 ($50) pen writes using a plastic wire that hardens almost instantly on being cooled by a fan built in to the pen's tip.

French firm Bic is bringing out a stylus version of the famous Bic Cristal plastic ballpoint pen. It is designed to work at any angle on any touchscreen and can write for 'up to three kilometres'.

Plastic mass production allowed the new ballpoint pens to be made very cheaply. Over the following decades, the pens have become even cheaper, without compromising on their ability to write.