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Like the solid feel of a hardwood pencil but hate writing with a tiny stub? This modular continuous pencil is for you!

At first glance, I thought that the Continuous Pencil was just a stubby with a wooden holder. But no — each pencil can hold the stub of the previous pencil. You just Lego the new one right in, work the old stub to the end, then shave it down to start over again.

For some folks, it might be cumbersome to break out a penknife to start up a new pencil, but once you’ve hand-sharpened your lead, it’s the only way to fly. Designers, architects, and illustrators who either don’t like or can’t use mechanical pencils will love this.

The photo slideshow above actually features TWO different pencil designs that solve the stub problem: the Continuous Pencil and the 1+1 Pencil, both via Gadget Lab favorites Yanko Design.

Source:wired.com

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Pay & Sit is yet another device to drive the poor from shared public spaces and let them instead be monopolized by apple-munching, mineral-water-sipping yuppies. Pay & Sit is a park bench dreamed up by designer Designer Fabian Brunsing. When at rest, it becomes the porcupine of the street-furniture world, deploying vicious metal spikes to keep soft rear-ends away. Only when a 50-cent coin is dropped in the slot do the spikes lower mechanically and offer up a smooth, comfortable surface.

Even the office-goers aren’t welcome to linger or dilly-dally in their relaxing: After a short interval, an alarm sounds, closely followed by the spikes popping back out. The message is clear: You sit, you pay.

If the Pay & Sit were ever to make it into the real world (unlikely, as this design is already a couple years old), then bums would have yet another sob-story designed to separate us from yet another few quarters: “Spare some change, guv’nor. I haven’t sat down for a week.” And then of course, there are bound to be people who find this new arrangement very comfortable indeed.

PAY & SIT: the private bench [Vimeo via Neatorama]

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Source:wired.com

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