Spiral Ballpoint Pen

Bike-powered sewing machines, the secret iPhone tracker and eggshell carvings in this week's look at the web

Designers Han Chi-hoon, Kim Yeon-soo, Park Byong-gon and Kim Sung-geun collaborated on a new ballpoint ink cartridge in a spiral form, an innovation that holds twice as much ink as a traditional pen.

The Way We See It

Subjects-turned-photographers exhibit powerful images of the lives of women in post-earthquake Haiti

In contrast to traditional photojournalism, an upcoming exhibit about life in post-earthquake Haiti offers a powerful look inside the lives of women by putting cameras in their hands. “The Way We See It” is a collection of photographs shot by 30 Haitian women living in a devastated nation where privacy and security are nearly nonexistent. Spearheaded by Abby Goldberg of Digital Democracy, the program started …

Olympus PEN Your Short Film Challenge

Twenty teams are challenged to make short films in 48 hours using micro-four-thirds cameras

During the recent Vail Film Festival Olympus challenged 20 teams of young filmmakers to shoot and edit a short film using only Olympus PEN E-PL2 cameras and lenses—a great way to show-off how powerful their high-end, compact cameras really are. A creative set of rules challenged the teams with using the cameras’ built-in art filters as well as forcing them to take in commercial considerations …