It was displayed a little "under the counter" during the last MakeUp in New York trade show but the new pencil sharpener UpsideDown recently unveiled by its designer and manufacturer Eisen, was already on everyone’s lips.
"It all started from a simple observation", explained officials of the German firm. "When a woman sharpens her cosmetic pencil with a conventional pencil sharpener, the only thing she can see is a heap of blackish pencil bits of no interest gradually building up on the blade. In addition, she doesn’t even see the pencil lead she is sharpening."
Simple but clever!
The trick therefore was to design a pencil sharpener with a hole on the other side of its base, a hole sealed by a kind of small transparent window (which can be used as a "magnifying glass”) and through which the user can clearly see the pencil lead being sharpened, while all the "waste bits" accumulate on the other side of the blade to fall into a specially designed compartment. No more waste then to keep women from seeing the pencil lead being sharpened, on the contrary they have gained excellent visibility and can control the exact size of the lead they have in mind.
"So simple ... but yet so terribly clever! " In addition, Eisen engineers have developed a cleaning tongue that fits perfectly in the overall design of the pencil sharpener and which has the advantage of being perfectly prehensible with two fingers.
