Tony Bridges 
OK, this has to be one of the coolest rollerball pens ever: It writes with silver ink that dries into functioning electronic circuitry.
According to MSNBC, the pen was developed by engineering students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Are you one of those people who get excited when you manage to keep the same pen for six months without losing it?
Then how about this: A stationers in London recently discovered a Uniball pen that had been tucked away for 25 years – and it still works.
The UB100 is a basic stick pen with a blue plastic barrel. It was launched by Mitsubishi Pencil Co. in 1979, the first rollerball pen to use a metal tip at the time, thus earning the name “uni-ball.”
Want to add extra panache to your writing on invitations, posters, school projects, or scrapbooks?
You might try the Artline Calligraphy Pen.
As you can see from the writing sample, there’s no guarantee that it will turn your handwriting into a work of art. But the polyester fiber tip, cut so that letters wax and wane as the pen moves, will help give your words flourish without requiring the use of a fountain pen.
A reminder that here at The Pen Vibe, we take our pens and pencils seriously when we caught up with an outstanding piece of analysis from Global Industry Analysts Inc.
A considerable increase in the application of hi-tech communication, and data transfer technologies over the past few years as we have all seen – hands up who does not use email? Yet despite this the writing instrument market continues to be active, innovative and growing and despite the electronic threat is still part of the daily routine for both the child at school and the guy in the office.
Let me just start by saying I love Artline Multipens. Since I got a set of these a few weeks ago, no surface in my apartment has been safe. Messages on the refrigerator, labels on all the storage boxes, reminder notes for my desk – they get used everywhere for everything.