Even though most authors become famous for the books that they publish, sometimes the books that they don't publish also serve to enhance their mythos. Take the American novelist Ernest Hemingway, for instance, whose first wife Hadley left an entire suitcase filled with his early short stories on a train en route to Switzerland: according to legend, he was never able to recreate those writings, losing them to history.
Luckily, in case you want to be known for your ideas that go from abstract plans in your notebook to being concrete, actual objects, texts, or whatever else falls in between, the Stylograph smart pen might be just the thing to make sure your old-school, handwritten notebook has its own quirky "hard drive-like" apparatus—or the ability to fully catalog whatever you put on paper, at least.
Created by a creative collective called the Oree Artisans and fashioned with pure copper, the smart ballpoint pen comes loaded with black Japanese ink (it can accommodate standard D1 ballpoint refills) and has a precision grip for line accuracy and comfort. The pen itself is 12 mm in diameter and weighs about 52 grams, or about 1.8 ounces. (For perspective, the average Bic Cristal ballpoint pen weighs about 5.8 grams, so the Stylograph comes with some heft to it.)
The Stylograph also comes with a 15 x 21 cm (or 5.8 x 8.3 inch) three-ring notebook with a "vegetable-tanned" cover and a built-in pen-holder, as well as an editing and writing app for both iOS and Android that links up the things you put down on paper to the backed-up copies you see on your screen. Digital copies can be exported as a PDF, SVG, or PNG, and are printable to boot. The pen works only with the special paper in the notebooks.
