Doodling or making quick notes with pencil and paper is so old school. Cheap. Dependable. Easy to use. Erasable. But old school. Enter the digital sketchpad/notepad. No wasted paper.

While the 1950s saw more than 20 pencil manufacturing plants, several like Dixon Ticonderoga, which closed its Jersey City, ...

Paper electronics MacGyver would be proud. By drawing a rectangle on a piece of paper with an ordinary pencil, researchers in China have made a strong, highly sensitive sensor that can measure how ...