Pencil sharpeners can be manual, plug-in or battery powered. This will also determine if it is portable. For artists and students on the go, a manual or battery-powered option will be your best bet.

This story was published April 8, 2016. We forgot to pencil it down in our calendars, so National Pencil Day came and went on March 30 without much fanfare. But David Rees probably celebrated it.

Yes, "The Campaign for the Accurate Measurement of Creativity" is a Kickstarter for a pencil sharpener attached to a mason jar. And yes, this is pretty silly. It's also, however, a worthwhile ...

The pencil sharpener that started it all: maintenance workers with the Toronto District School Board charged taxpayers $143 to install it at Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate.

At some point over the past few years, I noticed that we didn’t have pencils in our house, which I blamed on a lack of pencil sharpeners. Sometimes, you need to make a little mark on a wall when ...