Partners and college friends from Cal Poly, Colin Roche and Bobby Ronsse, decided to take a fresh look at the dynamics of hand control in writing, which yielded a surprisingly different pen. The PenAgain™ is intended to adapt to the contour of the human hand thus alleviating stresses normally observed with a standard pen. The writer's index finger sits in the saddle of a Y-shaped device and relaxes on the pen's point. The natural weight of the writer's hand provides sufficient pressure to apply ink to the paper. This eliminates the need to grip the pen allowing the thumb and forefinger to serve merely as guides.

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Call it the "Little Pen That Could," for Pacific Writing Instrument's ergonomically efficient PenAgain has come a long way since inventor Colin Roche conjured up the radical design in 1987, during high school detention, of all places.