Ladislao José Bíro was born 117 years ago today, and while you may not have heard of him before, you’re surely familiar with his most lasting invention: the ballpoint pen. Google’s latest Doodle ...

Perhaps best known as the Bic Biro, the pen has been ubiquitous since its launch, with a clear, hexagonal plastic case and bold cap. Its manufacturer, Société Bic, revealed in 2006 that it had sold ...

June 10 is National Ballpoint pen day. Why celebrate such a seemingly simple item? When it was invented, the ballpoint pen was revolutionary. The writing apparatus was invented by Hungarian painter ...

If any one product were to sell at the incredible rate of 57 units per second over the course of a year, it would have to be considered one of the most commercially successful consumer products of all ...

When we talk of the ballpoint pen, we invariably refer to a ‘Biro’, an antiquated technology that will be with us for as long as humans use pens. As David Sax says in his book The Revenge of Analog: ...

A video explaining why certain biro and ballpoint pens have a small hole at the top of the lid has caught the attention of thousands online. Zach D, who has more than two million YouTube subscribers, ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. A New Bridge Links the Strange Math of ...