Awesome Stuff: Multi-Tool Time
from the tooling-around dept
For this week's awesome stuff post, we decided to look at some multi-tool offerings. There are actually a lot of multi-tool crowdfunding projects out there, with a bunch of them just being a single simple multi-tool. This post is certainly not meant to be a comprehensive listing of all, but rather to pick a few that were a little different and distinct.- First up are the Ti2 Para-Biners, combining the concept of a multitool with a carabiner. It seriously looks indestructible and would probably be the last carabiner you'd ever need.
- Next up, we've got the Silverback 12+ function multi-tool and minimalist wallet. There are a lot of card-style multitools out there, but this one definitely has an awful lot built into a single tool plus, on top of that, the ability to double as a minimalist wallet. Of course, if you use it as a wallet, it might make it a little more annoying to make use of the tools part, since you may have to dump the contents of your wallet first.
- I already mentioned how many card-style multi-tools there are out there, but the offering from Tuls is interesting in that it's actually a set of four different mutli-tool cards, so you can have a nice set. The names of the four tools -- Roul, Stan, Lucy and Opie are all kind of amusing once you figure out the main purpose of each tool (though, the Opie tool seems almost too minimalist here, and it makes you wonder why the Stan tool can't do what the Opie tool does).
- Finally, we've got one that isn't quite as portable, but is effectively a basic toolbox in one device, called the Zeus multi-tool. Take the basic concept of a pocket knife, and expand it to larger tools -- giving you a fold out saw, pliers, knife, adjustable screwdriver with 16 different sized bits, a hammer, a measuring tape and a detachable light. The thing that surprised me, slightly, was the hammer. I can't recall seeing multi-tools that include a hammer. While they do spell out the dimensions, it would be nice to actually see it in someone's hand, as that would give a better sense of how "handy" it actually is. From the description, I wonder if it's too big, but without any images, it's a little tough to tell. Also, I've been growing wary of projects that advertise how they've received a patent. I'd much rather someone is focusing on executing and building a great product, not spending times with their lawyers and getting a weapon to sue other innovators over.
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"NOT LOAD RATED NOT FOR CLIMBING"
Kinda' beats the purpose, doesn't it?
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I would buy one for my rock climbing brother except for this deficiency. Makes it not much more than decoration.
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zeus and silverback
For the Silverback, I was amused by the "faq" (it's not a question!) I can imagine that statement is worth the bits my browser used to display it -- I'd want something at least referencing a TSA document which can be pointed to when they tell me "you can't take that".
Besides, the only time I had something confiscated when getting on an airplane was a small multi-tool, but it was in England (coming _back_ to America, so the tool went out just fine) so the TSA wasn't even involved.
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Tools Need To Be Easy To Use.
Back in 1982, when I was taking Human Factors Engineering in engineering school (Cincinnati), one of my classmates produced an extra-credit project which I found admirable. I am sorry, but at this distance, I do not remember his name, only the tools he made. He designed and built a screwdriver and a claw hammer, both of which looked very strange, but which were rationally designed to protect carpenters from carpal tunnel syndrome.
The hammer was a first-draft version. The student had cut off the end of the handle, and used a metal plate to put the top bit of the handle at about a 45 degree angle from a line running from the wrist to the hammer head. That way, the carpal tunnel bones could be kept in a straight position, where they would not be pressing on the nerves and blood vessels. To bring the project up to finished level, he would have had to fabricate a banana-shaped handle de-novo, and to work out a way to integrate it with a tool belt (presumably a special scabbard).
The screwdriver had a handle which was roughly the size and shape of a baseball, so that you could just float your hand over the surface. The student had turned a piece of oak on a lathe, and slotted the screwdriver steel into it. Again this would have required some kind of suitable tool-belt scabbard, and also, the sheer bulk of the handle might had precluded carrying around a number of different sizes of screwdrivers. It might have been necessary to develop some kind of workable system of interchangeable bits.
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Source : https://techimpose.com/download-shareit-for-pc-android-mac/
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It's metal and it looks cool, it would be snapped up quicker than if you were carrying a knife, and you'd never see it again(unless you count seeing it on a TSA agent's belt anyway).
Source: https://gearly.org/best-horizontal-carry-knives/
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