Another episode in my life as a stationary snob

So today's post is going to be a nice little short one that highlights another one of my exciting findings in the life of a stationary snob.  Most of us have heard of a company called Uni, they make lots of different pens, but what you probably didn't know is that they're actually made by a subdivision of Mitsubishi.  I remember many years ago they had a pencil that was a multi function one, so you had 3 pens and a pencil.  The cool thing with selecting this was just as long as you had the label of the writing implement you wanted to use facing you and pressed down it would select it automagically.  So that was probably my first experience with cool Japanese stationary.  The other thing with the Japanese that is also really cool is that they will think up of a solution to a problem that you probably didn't even realize existed.  Enter the Kuro Toga

Look at all the pretty colors

 So what does this magical pencil do?  Well everytime you lift up the pencil it rotates the lead ever so slightly.  You may be asking what is the point of that?  Well first off I will show a picture that will probably make ZERO sense, then I'll give a blurb

Look at me spin ma

So if that made absolutely zero sense, don't worry I was thinking that when I first saw it too.  Essentially the "problem" with normal mechanical pencils is that as you keep on writing on a single angle, you will start to get a increasingly flattened edge.  The problem with this (more so in chinese or southeast asian writing) is that your characters get more difficult to write neatly.  Anybody whose had asian parents will know of the experienece of being told WOW your writing is messy.  Seriously we hear about it all the time.  So the question is does it work?

Yes it really does stay sharp the entire time, other cool thing is your lead is less likely to break because you don't have to manually change the angle to get that sharpness.  So I'll write with it a bit more and come back and let you guys know how it is.  Initial impressions, the pencil is SWEEEEETTTTTT

If you guys want to know where to get them, drop me a line, and I'll let you know where I got mine.  As far as I know you can't get them in Calgary yet.

~Cheers