Want To Save Paper? Paper in, Pencils out Machine Available

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.

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Charmi : Nitin has no money to pay

“Nitin has no money to produce his flick with Puri Jagan as he has invested everything on Akhil’s debut flick. That’s the reason he backed out from the project and I’ve nothing to do with it”, claims Charmi, rubbishing the rumours that her entry as co-producer led Nithin walk out of the film. 

Immediately after Nitin walked out of the project, Puri Jagan has announced it with Varun Tej under C Kalyan’s direction”, said Charmi. In the wake of criticism that this “Jyothi lakshmi” heroine is involving heavily in Puri’s career, she says, “No one could control wagging tongues that talk non sense. Puri garu has a family, a loving wife and kids. He loves them very much. I’m in touch with him or seen at parties with him only because I’ve turned a producer. Those people who don’t like a heroine turning a producer, the male chauvinists, are spreading such false rumours”.

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Einstein's personal letter $420,000

A selection of rare and intimate letters from Albert Einstein on everything from God to his son's geometry studies and a little toy steam engine were auctioned Thursday for more than $420,000, far exceeding pre-sale estimates.

The 27 Einstein letters were in both English and German and written longhand and on a typewriter.


At the Profiles in History auction, they brought in a total of $420,625, including $62,500 paid for Einstein's letter to his son discussing the connection between his theory of relativity and the atomic bomb.

In one letter, Einstein urged one of his sons to get more serious about geometry. In another, he consoled a friend who recently discovered her husband's infidelity. In still another, to an uncle on his 70th birthday, Einstein recalled how the toy steam engine the uncle gave him years ago had prompted a lifelong interest in science.

"I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one," he wrote to a man who corresponded with him on the subject twice in the 1940s. "You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist. ... I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."

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