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Genuine leather tears at half a millimeter. Top grain doesn't. Here's the science behind why we chose the best part of the hide for our notebook cover.
Why Titanium Bonds With Bone: The Rabbit Accident
In 1952, a rabbit's bone fused to a titanium tube. No one believed it mattered. This is the story of how that accident changed medicine and why we make one of our pens from the same material.
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Fisher Space Pen ® - The pens that made it to space.
One man, his own money, a problem NASA couldn't solve. Floating in zero gravity, the ink cannot flow out of the point. The ball rolls around, and there is no gravity to pull the ink down, so nothing comes...
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It takes 99 hands to make this paper.
The Great Hanji Papermakers of Korea In Korea, there is a paper called Hanji, and one of its old names is Baekji, which means hundred-paper. The name comes from how it's made. The papermaker's hands touch each sheet ninety-nine times,...
Open any novel on your shelf. The paper isn't white.
About a year ago, I showed an early prototype of the note to a close friend. He's a director in the display organization at Apple. He knows everything about color, about how the eye works, how to tune a screen...
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