There is a premium on the cost of the Bics for Her product line targeting women. The pens, which we wrote about earlier today, are pink, small, and bejeweled—and have attracted ridicule for those ...

The idea of perforating the caps of pens appears to have started in the United Kingdom, where a new safety standard was adopted in 1990 (BS 7272). Between 1970 and 1984, nine children in the United ...

The hole in the caps of ballpoint pens is there to prevent choking accidents. Our vented caps comply with international safety standards ISO11540. These standards attempt to minimize the risk to ...

In today's edition of Saturday science. we bring you this: holes in pen caps help prevent choking deaths by creating a small passageway for air to slip through. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a ...

We all use pens, but have you ever noticed that there is a small hole in the pen cap, whether it is the BIC's ballpoint pen or the Reynolds? Most pens have a hole in the cap. Science has progressed a ...

Admit it, you've always wondered why your pen caps came with those mysterious little holes in them. Are they for decoration? Was it an accident that everyone just ran with? Does it make the ink dry ...

IT’S A KEEPER: This is one pen you won’t be lending. French jeweler Tournaire and Bic have teamed up to give the inexpensive Bic Cristal, no less than the world’s most-sold ballpoint pen, a precious ...