Boas Walter's big idea…
Penboard
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Time to design Product 27. Review our designs and submit your own as well.
Recap:
We all have tons of pens lying around, mostly occupying often used drawers, or being stacked in some sort of funny cup-like holder… Either way it’s a messy gang, most of them being cheap (usually promotional) biros, many of them dried up.
To help maintain an overview of this Pen-o-mania, the disPENser is an outcome. It’s no more than a thin (plastic or cardboard?) container, holding the pens in a neat orderly vertical fashion. The pens are stacked on top of eachother, and when needed, you just grab the bottom one. When finished writing, put the pen back at the top, and this way all pens are used through time, instead of only the ones being nearby.
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Show All@Becky: sorry for the confusion, but you interpreted the picture wrong. You don't have to slide them in, the cover just prevents them from falling out when opened. You just throw them in from the top, the way it's proposed in the original idea.
Unless I'm using specialty pens for art, I can't think of why I would use this. I'm more of a stuff them in a can instead of taking the time to carefully slide pens back into an elastic piece.
Really nice and could be quite functional. You get my vote!
Oh ok, I hadn't actually heard of liquid chalk pens before, and I agree the black front does look more stylish than a whiteboard counterpart would.
@Boas: I really like the cleanness of this design, and yes, it's stylish with the black front.
@Matthew: The idea was (and I should have described it better) to use a liquid chalk pen to write on the front. Such as: http://www.liquidchalkpen.com/
But I can easuly see a whiteboard as well. Thought it would look a bit more 'cool & stylish' having a black front :-)
Really like this design, but I would change the blackboard to a whiteboard, dry wipe pens are better than chalk, I think I would actually find this really useful if it had a writing surface like that on the front.
This is a very practical idea- Would need to be stretchy to accommodate chunky pens without allowing thin ones to slip out. Got function, can you improve the form?
Only geeks have 1,000's of pens - same colour same purpose. Everyone else has different colours and types and styles for different purposes so if this is going to work at all them you need to be able to select at will not from the bottom of a stack so this gets my vote.
this reminds me of a metal cigarette case. It would allow for you to choose which pen to use rather than using the one on the bottom of the stack like several of the other designs....so if your a multicolor pen user...this is more your thing.
i think if it could wall mount and then hinge open top down to "present the pens"...
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