Pensation.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF - Office equipment industry has introduced a Pensation kit - Brief article

Full-time heating engineer and self-described "tinkerer" Bill Moxon came up with his newfangled, grip-friendly pen in the late 1990s.

"I noticed how a lot of things were going ergonomic, but it seemed nobody had done a good job with a writing instrument," he said.

Moxon came up with a "moldable concept" that he initially pegged as unmarketable: "Are you really going to order pens like shoes, in different sizes and widths?"

Then inspiration struck: the Pensation kit with a moldable polymer grip "so the writer could mold the pen to match their hand."

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Now Moxon also has introduced a...