There are some inventions that look completely pointless to the untrained eye: who would ever need a motorized garbage can, an electric pencil sharpener or a battery-powered eraser? Quite often ...

The pencil “lead” is actually a mixture of graphite and clay. More clay in the mixture makes the lead harder. A harder lead has a higher number. Pencils are numbered from 1-3 but most people use a ...

Pencils, erasers, ballpoint pens - it was always fun to start a new term with a new brace of equipment in your pencil case. And have you ever thought about the history behind those school essentials?

Many suede brushes have a rubber side to them as well as a traditional soft brush, and having read that pencil erasers do a ...

Colour is a match! The Face Pencil appears to have gained a host of loyal users with one saying: "My third purchase. It’s like an eraser!" And another who penned: "I love this stuff! I have dark ...