Sharpie Liquid Pencil

Say what?

For those of us who can happily spend hours browsing the aisles at Office Depot, this is big, big news.

"A game-changing liquid graphite that eliminates broken pencil leads forever."

• Writes as smooth as a pen

• Erases like a pencil

• Becomes permanent like a Sharpie marker after three days

12-pack: $34.30.

You say you neither want nor need 12 of them?

Join the club.

If you must have it this week, the source above is the only one that's shipping today.

Take up a collection around the office and form a buying pool, everyone chips in $3 for theirs.

Sure, you can go to the Office Depot website and go through all the hoops and chutes to get to the final confirm page for your order of a 2-pack for $4.99.

But guess what?

Surprise! — they're out of stock and can't say when they'll have them back in.

Oh, but you're so very, very clever — I almost forgot, my apology — so you'll just head over to Amazon and get yours.

Not so fast, friend: "Ships in 2-5 weeks."

So what's it gonna be, punk?

[via Rex Hammock and Gadget Lab]