Violent attacker who stuck a biro pen in hospital inpatient's neck before stamping on his head is jailed for more than four and a half years. For confidential support, call Samaritans on 116 123 ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1943: Brothers László and Georg Bíró, Hungarian refugees living in Argentina, patent the ballpoint pen. A half-century-old idea is coming to commercial ...

The results for ReadyMade's MacGYVER: Dead Pen Edition competition are in, and they demonstrate the breadth of imagination that goes into hacking and repurposing a simple object. Readers have ...

The Bíro pen was patented in 1938. The rest is history. The ballpoint pen is still often called a “biro” in several countries , including the U.K., Ireland, Australia and Italy.

Hungarian Laszlo Biro patented the ballpoint pen, which he had been developing since the ’30s. In many languages, the word for ballpoint pen is “biro.” Source: Chase’s Calenda.

The pen may be mightier than the sword, but when Jewish-Hungarian journalist László Bíró invented the ballpoint pen in the 1930s clichéd sayings were probably the last thing on his mind.

People have been left stunned after discovering the real reason that biro pen lids have a hole in the top of them. Zach D, a popular American filmmaker who boasts 20 million subscribers on YouTube ...

Armed with only a BIC biro pen, a man managed to rob five banks in Rome, the Local reported. He was snared only when the savvy staff at his sixth target realized the harmless “weapon” was not ...

PRINCESS Margaret “didn’t have much of an opinion” of Prince Harry and once gave him a biro pen for Christmas, he claims. He said the late Queen’s younger sister — who died in 2002 aged ...

Ladislao Biro, 86, the man who invented the ball point pen, has died. Biro, who developed the pen while working as a reporter in his native Hungary, moved to Argentina at the outset of World War II.

A French artist is creating beautiful works of art using just a Bic Biro pen.. Helena Hauss' pieces are usually 100cm by 70cm which allows her to go into great detail, as the pictures are so large ...