Friday 3 April 2015

A Few Posts Ago,

we featured the work of an artist, 


who sculptured miniature figures from the unusable ends of pencils, but his source of pencil stubs might dry up if this invention by Osaka-based Nakajima Jukyudo in Japan takes hold, 
 the company makes nothing but pencil sharpeners, but has now come up with a novel way of using the bits of pencil left over, their latest product, called Tsunago (or, let’s connect) solves the age-old problem of having leftover pencil stumps,


the pencil sharpener has 3 different holes: one is a regular sharpener but the other two create a hole and a protrusion (often written as dekoboko, or 凸凹, in Japanese) that creates a perfect interlocking joint, a little wood glue seals the bond completely and you have a brand new pencil, the company is still working out distribution, but plans to begin selling the sharpener shortly for 1,620 yen,

and in case you are not sure how it works, here is the video.


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