How many times do you think you’ve used a pencil eraser and then brushed off the little rubber bits with your pinky? A million times? — a billion? Well, no more! This eraser brush device, while coming about fifty or sixty years too late, will certainly be useful for those of you still using pencils. What’s that? I’m getting reports that no one uses pencils any more, anywhere. That can’t be right.
I kid, I kid. Here in tech world you don’t see a lot of pencils around, but they’re still indispensable in art. Even if as a penciler you end up with stuff like this. I’d say Rob Liefeld could have used a little more eraser in his life.
Anyway, you’ve got yourself a nice professional eraser on one end, and a beautiful head of bristles on the other — what else could you need? It’s even tastefully designed. I want one just to keep in a drawer. Costs 7GBP, or a little over $10, which I think is reasonable.
[via LikeCool and Swiss Miss]
We’re in the year 2009, I want a mini fan on the end my eraser.
Considering all the sketch artists and animators I’ve ever been around that still like to sketch on paper with mechanical pencils–this should be a hit!
I don’t think this is brilliant at all. Brilliant would be the pencil + eraser + the brush… all in one. Why carry a pencil + an eraser and brush?
Because good drawing pencils don’t usually have an eraser to begin with.
and wouldn’t it be brilliant if they did?
The brilliant part would be if they managed to do it in a way that didn’t make the pencil heavier or awkward. If you’re an artist, you really don’t want that.
As opposed to this little tool–which doesn’t seem awkward at all–you’re instead suggesting something awkward to use?
i think if you really use a pencil, you have a separate high-quality eraser. And now you can have one of these.
I think this is just more stupid crap we don’t need – what the heck is wrong with using your hand to sweep away the used eraser bits?
Sure, it’s sort of cute and all but so not necessary.
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Just like my grandma was using back in the 70’s when she was a secretary. Except that the eraser had the shape of a pencil. So long for the innovation!
Yanno.. I had the nagging recollection of something like that.
I would have guessed it had been done before. In the shape of a pencil, though? You mean like the little eraser on the END of a pencil?
I live in Romania and i had this kind of eraser sometimes in 1999…
I can’t believe i just read this post on this blog. I know it’s a joke but…
Not gadget worthy.
Add a USB drive and we’re in business – *hint* to Thanko