Donkey Kong Country is 30 years old as of Nov. 18, and one video game archivist is celebrating this milestone by sharing 3D scans for a series of rubber figures previously exclusive to Japan. The ...

However, the first rubber erasers weren't very good. They were brittle and broke apart quite easily. This was solved by a process known as vulcanization , (say "VUL-kah-ny-ZAY-shun") which came ...

When I was in grade school, we bought pencils by the dozen. We also bought separate rubber erasers to supplement the pencils. We knew the tiny eraser on the pencil top would wear out long before ...

On Rubber Eraser Day, somebody else shared a 2013 piece from The Atlantic, telling us 10 things we probably didn't know about eraser technology. Among the tidbits from this article was that "rubber" ...

Pencil top erasers were a handy tool to have in the pencil box. During a mistake-ridden day that wore the eraser on that good 'ol No. 2 pencil down to the end -- one of these extra erasers was a must.

No longer do rubber erasers dry out quite as fast. “Even the Pink Pearl, which is one of my favorite erasers even though it doesn’t really work that well, they’ve made it softer. They used ...

But erasers as a general category are age-old. ... The substance was rubber. 3. Erasers were invented by accident. Though Joseph Priestly may have discovered rubber's erasing properties, ...

Prep for your next rubber band duel by nabbing the Model PPK ($19.99) and Model 1911 ($34.99) ... These old-school rubber band guns are here to help you dominate your office prank war.

A desk rubber used by Princess Diana when she was at boarding school in Norfolk is expected to fetch more than £300 when it is auctioned later. The eraser, which has Diana's writing on it, was used by ...

Donkey Kong Country is 30 years old as of Nov. 18, and one video game archivist is celebrating this milestone by sharing 3D scans for a series of rubber figures previously exclusive to Japan.