Sharpie Liquid Pencil doesn't dry like a Sharpie
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 17th 2010 12:48PM
posted August 17th 2010 12:48PM
posted August 17th 2010 12:48PM
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Have you tired using a hair dryer?
ERrrrr
If you use a pencil isn't it meant to be erasable?
Could you guys use a higher aperture number next time you make a video? You're throwing the focus all over the place.
Pengadget ?
probably just needs a patch
Assuming that no-one is planning to leave their stuff sitting out for 3 days so it can dry, my question is this: have you guys tested how this does or doesn't smudge/smear like text written with a normal 2B? I don't mind if it still erases, if it doesn't *smear* when pages get rubbed together, as tends to happen in a notebook.
But you will see others have exactly the same problem... just dont try to hold this way and it will work...
wholly shiet! "if you write on a page of soft paper then erase what you wrote you can read the imprints....."
do a side by side comparison with a real pencil.
@daewootech no wait, scratch that, i misunderstood the purpose, that sucks that its not perminant, i guess it would have been neat.
@daewootech have you tried it on different paper, like college ruled standard paper and not the paper in your diary? could be different fibers or some sort of coating on the paper....
Sanford has bought out a lot of writing instrument brands and rather than revamp them, they've basically destroyed them. In their continuing quest to ignore people's needs and the history of the industry, they are going back in time to re-release old failed products as if they were new ideas. Now they're taking Parker's (one of their acquired brands) failed 1950's idea, "Liquid Lead" and releasing under one of their other brands, Sharpie. Of course it still doesn't work very well, so all that's going to happen is damage to the Sharpie brand name. Clueless corporate capitalism at its very finest.
You're holding it wrong.
Apparently when releasing a new product, expect the PR to only last a week.; by then hope that your sales have exceeded costs of development and advertising.
@HowardtheDuck I think it was referring to when it dries it looks like you wrote it with a sharpie, not you can't erase it like you can't erase a sharpie...maybe?
Just a heads up, I received this in the mail today and it doesn't write well. The ink kind of looks like a pencil but it writes like a bad pen. Oh well, I type 99% of the time anyway so who cares?
Sounds like good news to me. The only thing about it that I didn't like was that it dried to permanence. Now it's more like a regular mechanical pencil without the broken leads.
@riczp you are right on. I have a feeling a lot of people on here were not even born when the earasermate made its entrance. To my this is not even worth an Engadget blog post.
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasermate