The Ode Pen

A pen that introduces you.

Cloudy emerald resin, a refill you can see, and your card inside. Tap it to a phone and you appear. No app, and nothing stored.

£19.99 Buy Make your card
The Ode Pen in emerald resin, side on, light passing through the body
A Parker QUINKflow ballpen refill, the refill used inside the Ode Pen
Inside · Parker QUINKflow ballpen refill · standard G2 size

Everything here is measured against one thing. You.

The 12 mm body fills the space between your fingers. Three soft indents meet your thumb, index and middle finger. The cap closes over the tip, and the moulded clip shows which way the pen faces.

Each pen is printed, washed, cured, finished and checked by hand, and it is made for one person, and that person is you.

A hand writing the word Ode in a notebook with the emerald Ode Pen
Tap

Hold it to a phone. You appear.

A small NFC tag sits in the end of the pen. Most recent iPhones and Android phones read it without an app and open your page. Your details travel inside the link itself, so we never see or store them.

  • CardName, role, phone, email, LinkedIn and website, one tap away.
  • Lost & foundIf the pen goes missing, whoever finds it can reach you.
  • FocusTap to start a session. Tap again to finish.
Make your card
The Ode Pen from the grip side, light passing through the emerald resin
Inside

No battery. Ever.

An NFC tag of 8 × 18 mm sits in the end of the pen. It has no battery and nothing to charge. When you tap, your phone's own radio field powers it for that moment, and it answers with your card.

0
Batteries to charge, replace or throw away
100,000
Rewrites. Change your card every day for over 270 years.
10 years
It holds your card with no power at all.
144 bytes
Room for your whole card, stored as one short link.
13.56 MHz
The same NFC standard as contactless cards, read by most recent iPhones and Android phones.
Rewritable
Never locked, so you can change your card whenever you like.

NTAG213 chip on an etched aluminium antenna, ISO/IEC 14443-A and NFC Forum Type 2.

The details
Close-up of the pen's end: the clip, the hex screw and the ode wordmark
A new refill in a minuteUndo one hex screw with the 2 mm key from the tin. Takes standard G2 refills; ships with a Parker QUINKflow, black, medium.
The pen and its cap lying apart, light shining through the resin
Translucent on purposeSiraya Tech Blu resin in emerald. Light passes straight through, so you can see the refill inside.
The pen at an angle beside its cap, showing the grip indent and the tip
Shaped for your handA 12 mm body with soft indents for your thumb, index and middle finger.
The pen standing upright above its cap
The pen side on with its cap off
A cap for the tipThe cap slides over the tip, so the pen can travel in a pocket or a bag.
Body
Siraya Tech Blu resin, emerald
Diameter
12 mm
Refill
Standard G2; Parker QUINKflow included
Tag
NFC NTAG213, rewritable
In the tin
Pen, 2 mm hex key, card
Price
£19.99
In the tin

Written for you.

Each pen arrives in a brushed tin with a 2 mm key and a card that tells you how to begin. Open it, lift the pen out, tap it to your phone.

Hands opening the Ode tin: inside the lid it reads Written for you, and the pen rests in a white card
The first openInside the lid: Written for you. The card holds the pen in place and says what to do next.
The closed Ode tin held in two hands, the ode mark on its lid
Only the name on topA clear label carries the ode mark and nothing else.
The underside of the Ode tin with its information label
Everything else underneathWhat is inside, who made it and how to recycle the tin.
Holding the emerald Ode Pen above its open tin
Lift it outLight passes through the resin, so the refill shows inside.
Taking the cap off the Ode Pen over its tin
Uncap and writeThe two-prong cap slides off; the tip is ready.
The Ode Pen and its cap resting on a notebook beside the open tin
Origin

Made at zero degrees.

Every Ode is designed and made by hand, from scratch, 222 feet above Greenwich, London.

Greenwich, London0° longitude222 ft up