Sharpen Pencil, Get Eraser
So you’ve got a pencil and you need it sharp. You need it so sharp that you’d be able to draw a really sharp picture of your favorite Yanko Design design. That’s right, you could draw the Dew Capturing Pyramid, the doo doo weighing toilet seat, or the wishbone MP3 player. Draw it. Sharp pencil, and woo! You get a bonus with this little mama. You get an eraser made out of the wood you chopped off the pencil.
Eraser! It’s like using the whole bison.
You know the folks who came here before the Spanish and those people from the UK, they had a bunch of tribes and clubs and groups that basically all hunted and used all kinds of bison. They used the WHOLE thing. They used the bones, the fur, the meat, and the eyeballs!
And now, these fabulous folks you see in the designer slot below this paragraph, they’re doing the same thing with a pencil. First you plug this device in, then you sharpen the pencil, your turning of the crank smashes and squishes that wood into an eraser for you too! Yay!
Designer: Hao Gin Weng, Siang Yin Ke, and Che Hao Li
















35 Comments »
reality says
so wood plus bits of pencil ‘lead’ mashed together and bonded somehow, makes a good eraser? err i dont believe you. what bonds this together?
Yuuta says
But… there’s also bits of lead in pencil shavings so how is it going to make a decent eraser?
Eak Phanunan says
Woods can erase pencil marks ????
That’s so …..
mif991 says
A good eraser costs less than a buck, how much does it cost to make this device and to produce the eraser from a pencil(s)?
Dora says
so, it’s like it’s pooping out the eraser, yes? hm…interesting
igorchak says
Come on people!!! I’m tired of these useless designs by people that think they are designers. I do not want to offend the designer but where is the rational thinking here?!?!! It’s like saying “from all the bits that come from sharpening a pencil you get a cube that can heal cancer”….
Erasers are made out of rubber, pencils are made out of wood and lead….unless you can smash particles to change wood/lead in to rubber then this is the most useless design/idea ever…And what’s the point of the crank if it’s electric??? Do these “designers” even know how things work/function?
ACH says
HI! No offense to people who think it's a crazy idea… when i was about 10 yrs old, I did make erasers from pencil shavings, quite don't remember how but i will figure out…and I stumbled upon this while googling!! So, it is possible…I had done it. Just need to remember how!!
Wish me luck/…U will see it soon
AC
ACH says
HI! No offense to people who think it's a crazy idea… when i was about 10 yrs old, I did make erasers from pencil shavings, quite don't remember how but i will figure out…and I stumbled upon this while googling!! So, it is possible…I had done it. Just need to remember how!!
Wish me luck/…U will see it soon
AC
Bryan says
lol alchemy machine..
designers need to explain moree
tryner says
…..really? Pretty sure if i rub a stick across my paper it will do 3 things; 1) smudge the lead, 2)rip the paper as i vigorously scrub harder out of frustration, 3) make me feel like a complete idiot for ever thinking that i could ever get this to work…. as I curse the old man who sold me 3 beans for a cow.
Also, how does it stay together? Pretty sure if i put pencil shavings in a hydraulic press all i’d have is thinner pencil shavings. How about using the shavings as mini mulch for my desk plant instead? hahaha
Nancy says
worst design ever….doesn’t even make sense…
Lars Ylrich says
eh..so..and then..what?
Kind of look like an ordinary pencil sharpener with a a-hole in the front?
Making erasers from wood with a lot of nice black graphite in it to erase on black paper? Que?
Gen says
Why do you pull out the box?
Mike says
It´s a concept
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I like it. It´s cool!
mif991 says
It took three designers to come up with this. That is what is aggravating, perplexing and perturbing. Igorchak is right, you might as well say that the cube cures cancer.
Kim says
I seriously thought this was a joke. Now I wonder if they also claim that this is eco.
Hollis Ervin says
Wow. Idiots. Seriously.
daretofail says
so marvelous!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob says
Very interesting idea!
But, unbelievable!
Manuel Adamini says
That can only work if you sharp the rubber at the end of the pencil and then make it part of the new rubber. I'm sure that part will erase something. lol
Manuel Adamini says
That can only work if you sharp the rubber at the end of the pencil and then make it part of the new rubber. I'm sure that part will erase something. lol
Charlie says
where do u buy it?
Charlie says
where do u buy it?
Jimmy C says
YOU NEGATIVE COMMENTEERS ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!
Jimmy C says
YOU NEGATIVE COMMENTEERS ARE IDIOTS!!!!!!
smita says
its good.pls send details of cost.
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