The Apollo Technical Pen And Drafting Scale Is Piling up Backers And Bucks

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Apollo Technical Pen

You know you probably have a winning Kickstarter project when you’ve raised more than three times your funding goal and still have nearly a month to go.

Roxtar Labs launched the Apollo Technical Pen and Drafting Scale project with a goal of $30,000 to manufacture and distribute the precision pens. Within a week, the project had doubled that number and has continued to climb now past $90,000.

I think the key to their success may be the pen’s compatibility with an amazing number of refills, more than 50 all total. Included in that list: Pentel EnerGel, Pilot Hi-Tec-C, Lamy Rollerball and both the Pilot FriXion and Uniball Fanthom erasable ink pens.

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Elections And Disappearing Ink Pens

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Wile e Coyote

Apparently, Wile E. Coyote has gotten into international politics.

That can be the only explanation for a rash of reports the last couple of years about tricksters smuggling “disappearing ink pens” into polling places around the world from Russia to Maldives.

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Pens With Magnetic Appeal

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Polar Magnetic Pen

Pens are cool. Magnets are cool. Pens + magnets? Awesome!

It’s really that simple.

Which is why we are excited by some unique pens that combine the two in very sexy ways.

For example, Andrew Gardner’s Kickstarter project for the Polar Pen, a modular pen made of rare earth magnets. (I won’t pretend that I didn’t have to go to Wikipedia to find out that a rare earth magnet is the strongest kind made.)

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