Technology long ago reached the point where it helped to satisfy our more urgent needs: food, shelter, warmth, etc.

So now, of course, it exists primarily to make life incrementally less annoying. Which is how you end tp with this – a pen that never runs out.

The Pininfarina Cambiano Inkless Pen has an ethergraph tip which means it can write forever, without needing refilled.

The tip is just a precise as a sharp pencil, but the mark it leaves is as permanent as ink.

The sleek design – handcrafted from Italian aluminium and wood – is a bonus, but the really delight is never again having to shake it hopelessly or lick the nib in order to jot down a phone number.

Now all they need to do is invent a pen you never lose down the back of the sofa, and technology can take the rest of the week off.

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