If you work with mechanical pencils but are constantly rotating the pencil in your hand to deal with uneven wear on the lead, the Uni-ball Kuru Toga is the pen for you.


Designed in response to the problem of uneven lead wear, the Kuro Toga has an ingenuis mechanism in the barrel. As you write the mechanical part that holds the lead slowly rotates. Instead of wearing the lead down to a flat chisel point— you're witnessing this phenomenon when you see your pencil strokes change from super fine narrow lines to more broad calligraphic style strokes— each stroke of the pencil turns the lead a tiny amount allowing the lead to evenly "sharpen" itself on the paper instead of wearing way one side. It's an astoundingly simple concept, but one that seems entirely lacking from any other mechanical pencil we've run into. For other writing utensils we like check out the Grip Slippa Super Flat Pen and the light up pilot's pen.


Uni-ball Kuru Toga [via Cool Tools]