Japanese innovation - stationary part 2

The cuteness, quirkiness and innovative spirit also reach the stationary, this is part 2. Some makes sense, some not really. Here are some of them, most are my favorite.
For part 1, go to http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=886931813061443481#editor/target=post;postID=4671383276109903366


1. Beettle tip pen
The tip has 3 protruding rubber like pen

The 'beetle' tip

Make a thin line

Make a thick line

Make a two line

2. Friction lighter
The over 4 million sold in Japan very popular friction pen series ( I love it to death) released a lighter version. As with other friction pen, you can undo the highlight by using the rubber on the other tip of the lighter.

Made a wrong highlight? No worries, just erase it 

Ta da 

3. Decorush
Japan's insatiable hunger for cuteness means this tapes was sold for 200 thousands something (April 2012)

The 6 new pattern with different sizes adds to the 12 existing patterns. 

 3. Tibbit

This writing pad's name is funny borderline cute and the eco-minded inventor has a 'save the paper thus save the tree' in mind, but i found that it is not as useful as sure you can cut the paper to sizes that you use but you'll loose small sizes of paper, and writing a memo, reminder or message is starting to be something of the past.

4. Card holder (haritore)
Name card or business card are very much an important part of Japanese business life.

Stick up to 50 name cards to the sticky black part of the holder

5. Glue pen
Gone are the days of big bulky glue, small is beautiful.

You can even use it on plastic and it's not messy

6. . Boogie board rip
It's eco friendly but not electricity friendly

Write your memo, erase or save it

Access it on the computer

7. New board

Japanese loves portable miniature things and so a small white board was born. You read right, an A4 size white board, complete with its own whiteboard marker

red, black marker and the white board eraser

Emergency small meeting in a place with no white board? No problem o.

There is even a transparent page you can reuse

They have thought of everything

8. Smarecopen (short for smart record pen, i guess)

This leaves me a bit speechless, I don't know how they did it. No more cutting small pieces of information from a magazine. Just draw the border line with the smarecopen and..

Make a border line with the smarecopen

Take photo and save it

Once saved, only what's inside the borderline will be saved. You can  email itor edit the size. 

9. Newspaper clip (Shim bun clip)

Easy to use, only 3.5 grams, quite useful for heavy newspaper reading

For crowded train, you can even read the newspaper this way

10. Mini basic stationary series

Again, small and compact is loved in Japan.Extra space means extra stuff to fill your bag or just travel light

note pad 6.5cmx4.8cm

stapler

It can be closed

correction tape

4.5 cm with own cap. Can be clipped to your bag and useful when you want to cut  a loose thread

11. Memory note book

Being a diary and organizer freak who easily forget, I'd love to have one of these!

Document anything - draw maps, birthday presents you've given, addresses, bills, etc

12. Call it stapler, but it's a transformer pen stapler for me.

This is good, have all your stationary in a form of a pen for easy storage.

And they come in different patterns - aahh 

Pen?

No it's a stapler

The drawback is you can only use it 10 times in one go...but wait, when you think it has a flaw, they are one step ahead of you.

Quite a lot of refill can be kept inside of the stapler!! talking about space saver and  usefulness