The whole point of a mechanical pencil is to have perfect sharpness forever. Yet without precise engineering and build quality, the standard slender leads are doomed to constant breakages. This ...

The most valued commodity in the schoolyard marketplace is one of the most basic. Every kid wants a pencil—especially a carefully carved stub of a pencil called a mini. Sasha Portnoy, a 9-year ...

Pencils, an ubiquitous tool around the world massively used by students, particularly those enrolled in primary and secondary education, are normally not the product of a recycling process.