Shipping on the Kickstarter-funded, magnet-barrelled Polar Pen has been delayed by Health Canada, which has classified the pen as a "dangerous magnet set". Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and ...

So, we all agree 2016 is the year of the fidget, right? First off, 154,926 backers pledged $6,465,690 to make ultimate desk toy the Fidget Cube a reality, and now a new Kickstarter campaign wants to ...

A doctoral candidate at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) developed a magnetically driven pen interface that works both on and around mobile devices. This interface, ...

We've seen a few hybrid tablet stylus/ballpoint pens kicking around, but the Polar Pen, with its barrel made out of rare earth magnets, takes the absolute biscuit. Michelle Starr Science editor ...

Typica has returned to Kickstarter this week to launch its new Magnetips magnetic gel pens, providing an alternative to the original fine-tip pens launched by Kickstarter back in 2016. Using the same ...

You have to feel a little sorry for Andrew Gardner, whose dream of marketing his novel magnetic pen has been cut off at the knees by Health Canada. The pen's barrel is made up of several powerful ...

It’s the only practical use for the oddly shaped duo. Christened “rec & play” by the Yuri Suzuki-Oscar Diaz design duo who built them, the pens are just screaming for us to write down secret messages.

Kelvin Geis's PenMoto is not yet another iPad stylus. What it is is an accessory thatwill make the pen or stylus you already own a lot easier to use. The PenMoto consists of two parts, both containing ...

If you've got a grocery list that lives on your refrigerator but never seem to have a pen nearby, reader Jay details how he made his own magnetic Bics on the cheap and easy. This isn't the first time ...

Ontario designer Andrew Gardner says he was just trying to a raise a little money online to manufacture his magnetic pen creation, and within two days had already raised hundreds of thousands of ...

Samsung has secured a patent for a double folding phone with a magnetic S Pen. The device has three screens and the S Pen fits between two of them when folded. The S Pen is also imagined with ...