When buying school supplies for your kid—perhaps during one of the tax-free weekends happening around the country—know that not all wooden pencils are created equal. Some break constantly.

Though simple in appearance, the pencil is one of the most enduring and versatile writing tools in history. It has ...

The ubiquitous writing and drawing utensil may seem as commonplace ... told us that his undergrad professors recommended using wooden pencils in a range of leads (like the above Staedtlers ...

What makes this customized Apple Pencil unique is that Cedric achieved a wood-like texture with sandpaper ... double-tap gestures to switch drawing tools, and a more seamless design with no ...

Technology may never vanquish the humble wooden pencil. Ask anyone involved in manufacturing ... How many other products can you buy for under a dollar that can draw a line 35 miles long?

The ordinary, dumb wooden pencil is, in the poetic words of Henry ... Konrad Gesner published a book about fossils that featured a drawing of a new kind of writing implement for taking notes ...