New Pencil Stays Erasable for 3 Days, Then Turns Permanent

Very neat, but methinks this is a product that supplies a non-existent demand. Can anyone tell me where this would be more useful than a regular pen or pencil?

I agree, Edward. No obvious demands for this but it could be useful for crossword puzzles, sudoku, maybe sketching. And of course, like djinny pointed out, tricking someone into using this pencilpen when completing an important document is a fraudster’s dream come true.

I have no idea what the use would be, but somewhere out there someone is probably reading about this and thinking, “They finally invented exactly what I need!!!”

…And a few years from now Sharpie will stop manufacturing them and that same person will be very disappointed.

You lot must be awesome at filling out official forms of all sorts (DMV, voter registration, vote-by-mail, taxes, lease agreements, checks, anything). I can’t count the times I’ve had to start over with a new paper because I’ve done something stupid in ink.

Sign…date…initial…date…CRAP!

Not saying I’m going to run out and buy some of these, but they definitely fit a niche. Just hold on to your contracts for three days and you’re set.

Meh. Except for young kids – who still uses a pencil? Better yet, who still writes stuff by hand?

//where’s that icon when you need it?//

This sounds like a minor upgrade from eraseable ink pens that have been out for quite a long time from Papermate, though the ink becoming permanent with those was more a flaw than a feature.

These sound awesome! I’m still in college and I take all my notes in pencil (to practice my archaic cursive handwriting ability), but this would be great for that aforementioned smudge factor. I am super excited about these and I hope they work.

Tests and essays n crap to be completed in school r often required to be in pen and there’s nothing more obnoxious (k so I can think of a few more obnoxious things) than to write 3 long sentences only to realize that they suck and now u have to cross out 7 lines or start over. Plus this is just kinda… neato!

As an illustrator, I would never use this. I need to be able to erase the pencil underneath the “clean up” ink drawing. Sometimes I’ll pencil something and not get back to it for a week or so.

This won’t replace pencils, and it won’t replace pens. And there are already erasable pens. This seems like something somebody thought would be cool without really thinking about what it would be used for…