Surgeons use free IKEA pencils to mark bone cuts
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76YT3)
The free IKEA pencil - the little stub in the box next to the maps and measuring tapes - has changed color over the years, from blue to yellow to bare wood, but never its dimensions: 7 by 87 millimeters. IKEA orders 5.2 million of them a year for its Canadian stores alone. - Read the rest
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