This was the Reynolds Rocket, the first ballpoint pen in the United States. Retailing at a steep $12.95 (about $200 today), it sold out by the end of the day, raking in a whopping $100,000 (about ...

Look around you. Chances are, there’s a BiC Cristal ballpoint pen among your odds and ends. Since 1950, it has far outsold the Rubik’s Cube and even the iPhone, and yet, it’s one of the most ...

It’s a debate as old as time and has had the world’s finest intellectuals at war for years – what is better to write with, fountain pens or ballpoint pens? Okay, maybe it’s not that ...

He’s managed to squeeze a tiny FM radio receiver into a ballpoint pen ... has to do to listen to the radio is chew on the end of his pen. While this technology might help a cheater pass an ...

The concept of using a pen with a metal ball at the end of it has been around since the 19th century. The first patent for the ballpoint pen was granted to American inventor John J. Loud in 1888.