This Amazing Magnetic Pen Will Take Hours From Your Life

I'm proud to be a geek and get all googly about things like this! No glue, no threads, just magnets and an ink cartridge and versatility galore. There's still time to get in on the Kickstarter campaign and get one for yourself!

This Amazing Magnetic Pen Will Take Hours From Your Life
By Kyle VanHemert
10.02.13

Think about how many cumulative hours you’ve wasted with pens in your lifetime. You’ve spun them; you’ve drummed them; you’ve unscrewed them and launched their tops off like little rockets. The pen’s unimpeachable status as a tool needed to get things done lets it slide undetected into even the most oppressive fun vacuums–places like lecture halls and meeting rooms–whereupon it assumes its most vital function of giving you something to fiddle with. And when it comes to fiddling, this magnetic pen is a quantum leap beyond your standard plastic Bic.

Polar, as the wonder pen is called, is a writing implement made of 12 neodymium magnets. But according to Andrew Gardner, the man behind the design, distraction was never the goal. The pen, which can be preordered for about $40, was intended to be a “modular platform where you can add new tips and new cartridges,” Gardner explains. It’s “a really organic platform for creativity.”

But you have to imagine that the 8,000-some backers who have already pledged over a half a million dollars to the project saw something else when they looked at Polar. They had to have watched the clip showing all the things it can do–seeing all the mesmerizing magnetic structures it can transform into–and come to the obvious conclusion: This thing the Sistine Chapel of time wasting.

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