All pencils come out of a factory, usually, but it's ultimately not that hard to make them if you have the proper tools.
New waste paper processor can turn useless old paper sheets into something we all need – pencils.
From Chengzhu Ruan, Yuanyuan Liu, Xinwei Yuan & Chao Chen comes a design that will get the lead out…or in, actually, when it comes to turning waste office paper into something useful.
They’ve come up with the P&P Office Waste Processor, which has already gone ahead and won a LiteOn award owing to both its inherent “neatness” and the fact that it apparently turns old sheets of paper into…wait for it…pencils.
The information about the device is sketchy, at best, but from the conceptual designs it looks like the machine they’ve so devilishly designed goes ahead and takes in waste paper, rolls and compresses it, and then inserts a lead from a small stock kept in the machine. A glue reservoir is also needed, as it appears pure compression isn’t going to do the trick.
The P&P Office Waste Processor looks a great deal like a portable shredder at first glance. Paper is feed into a top slot, and “after a moment” – according to product docs – a fully-formed pencil pops out of a slot at the end.
