College students everywhere, get ready for fatter wallets at the end of the school term. The Fader fading highlighter will help you get more for the resale of your textbooks by allowing you to highlight to your heart’s content…then after five months, the marks simply fade away.

The highlighter works like any other, making bright marks in your textbooks that help you keep track of important concepts and passages. The big difference is that, instead of marking up your book permanently and drastically decreasing its resale value, the ink completely disappears by the time the term is over.

Fader is currently in development with crowdsourcing manufacturer extraordinaire Quirky. While there are similar products on the market already, they require some amount of erasing. Fader is unique for its ease of use and its ability to leave expensive textbooks as good as new.

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Even when equipped with the latest smart phone and laptop, some of us still feel more comfortable jotting down notes the old-fashioned way: with a pen and paper. Or maybe we just want our phones handy even when we’re watching videos or listening to a recorded lecture on those fancy-pants smartphones. Whatever the reason for needing paper and an iPhone at the same time, the Smart Phone Note is a simple but clever accessory to have.

The Smart Phone Note basically consists of a paper notebook with a strategic cutout for your iPhone 4. You can situate the phone in landscape or portrait positions, and the headphone jack is accessible when the phone is turned sideways. You can jot down notes while listening to your language learning podcast or (and this is probably the more likely scenario) write down directions to the next bar for that cute girl while you’re looking them up on Google Maps.

The notebook might be best suited for students, but it would easily be useful for just about anyone with a smartphone. It kind of doubles as a case for the phone, but it might not be the most secure case in the world. Still, for around $29 (or 30,000 Won) it seems worth trying out at your next business meeting or class.

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