A new EDC knife is gaining traction on Kickstarter with a deliberately unfashionable pitch: don’t pay more for the steel. The VIVID, from San Francisco–based maker Infinity (its third Kickstarter campaign), lands at $65 for the cheapest early-bird pledge against a planned $109 MSRP. The spec sheet runs VG10 blade steel, a G10 handle, a […]
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Most budget knife buyers shop by price and assume the quality ceiling rises with it. CJRB has spent the last few years making that assumption look sloppy. The Artisan Cutlery sub-brand ships AR-RPM9 powder steel, ceramic bearings, and button locks at price points where most competitors are still using liner locks and D2 steel of
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Most EDC flashlights solve one job well and apologize for the rest. You carry the bright one for distance, the UV one for travel, the red one for camping, and the laser lives in a drawer you rarely open. The assumption baked into that system is that no single light can cover all of it
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Work Sharp built its reputation on belt sharpeners and guided systems, not blades. On June 5, 2026, the Madrone changed that conversation. At $179.95, the new EDC folder pairs an M390 clip point blade with an integral aluminum handle machined in-house at the company’s Oregon facility. Price: $179.95 Where to Buy: Work Sharp On paper,
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You don’t need another pocket trinket that only spins. The SnapTac 2601, which went live on Kickstarter in early June 2026, is a balisong-inspired fidget multi-tool machined from either 304 stainless steel or TC4 titanium. It flips. It opens bottles. It pries open tape and boxes with a bladeless edge. Starting at US$69 for early
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Father’s Day 2026 lands on June 21, and most “tech gift guides” floating around this week are recycled Amazon affiliate dumps with the same five products in a different order. The seven picks below are different. Each one earned its slot through real-world use and a clear answer to the question dads quietly ask themselves:
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You don’t need a belt holster to carry a useful multi-tool. The best pocket-sized options pack pliers, blades, or screwdrivers into a chassis that actually disappears in your jeans, with no holster, no drag on your waistband, and no second-guessing whether to bring it along. Sorting through dozens of nearly identical models is exhausting, though,
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Boker (Böker) just released five new versions of Lucas Burnley’s Kiboku fixed blade. All five share the same RWL-34 blade. What changes is the handle, from bright orange G10 to Sonoran desert ironwood. The five variants are the Bocote, G10 Orange, Richlite Red Topo, Desert Iron Wood, and Richlite Black Rock Pattern. They are made
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Aulumu just gave EDC nerds and iPhone owners a reason to share a pocket. The Shenzhen-based accessories brand officially launched the G05 Pro Multi-Function Mag Kickstand on June 1, 2026. The 38-gram aluminum disc bolts onto the back of your phone via MagSafe and quietly conceals a five-piece mini toolkit inside. It is the follow-up
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Spring 2026 has reshuffled the tactical flashlight market. Fenix released four new models on March 31, including the TK15R and C7 PRO, while Streamlight’s ProTac 2.0 lineup matured into a credible mid-range alternative last summer with the higher-candela 2.0 HP. This guide rounds up four picks worth considering right now, from a sub-$75 workhorse to
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Ask any everyday-carry obsessive what they wish they had more of in their pocket, and “a pen that actually works” usually lands near the top of the list. Wallets, knives, flashlights, multitools; those are easy. A reliable, palm-sized writer that doesn’t snag on your jeans or leak ink into your coat lining? Surprisingly hard. The
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Every year, our “must-have” lists fill up with the obvious headliners: the new iPhone, another foldable, a flagship pair of earbuds. The launches are loud, the unboxings rack up millions of views, and three months later most of us go right back to using the same handful of tools we already trusted. The gadgets that
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Kershaw is the brand that quietly lives in more pockets than any other. A Spyderco gets pulled out at the knife meet. A Benchmade gets argued over on Reddit. A Kershaw gets carried, used, lost in the couch, replaced for under $50, and carried again. The lineup spans a $15 keychain folder to a $200
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CJRB Cutlery’s glow-in-the-dark Gobi, the J1906-GD, has been gaining traction in EDC circles since its January 2026 debut and is widely available again on Amazon for $49.99. After several months of uneven Amazon availability following its initial launch, the variant is back in stock at its original price, ready to compete with newer releases in
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Most knife companies celebrate a milestone anniversary with a logo etch and a price bump. Spyderco, which has spent half a century quietly running one of the more interesting catalogs in production knives, decided to do something else. For its 50th, the Golden, Colorado outfit rebuilt what Spyderco itself calls its iconic Native® 5 as
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Every dad has a pocket loadout, even the ones who’d never call it “EDC.” Car keys, a beat-up wallet, a phone with three cracks, and that one ballpoint pen from the bank that somehow refuses to die. We love them for it. But with Father’s Day right around the corner, this is the year to
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The 2026 EDC flashlight wave has finally shipped. After a winter of SHOT Show announcements and a spring of products actually landing on shelves, five lights stand out as legitimate carry upgrades, covering a verified price spread from $70 to roughly $200, output from a sub-lumen moonlight to a real 12,300 lumens, and throw from
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This week brought one of the strongest gadget weeks of the year. Workhorse EDC knives went sub-3-inch without losing teeth, Qi2.2 MagSafe banks finally caught up to wired speeds, robot mops added 176°F dock washing, and an Apple II tribute keyboard arrived clad in five pounds of aluminum. The ten releases below are all drops
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The tech-backpack category has shifted hard in the last twelve months. Aer ended a four-year hiatus by launching the Travel Pack 4 in March, a ground-up redesign of its long-running carry-on (it didn’t unseat our picks below, but it signals how much the category has moved). Wandrd rolled out the PRVKE V4 in June 2025,
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A $60 folder will cut a box. A $300 folder will cut the same box and then sit on the desk for the rest of the week like a small, machined sculpture. WE Knife Co. has spent the last several years quietly building a catalog that lives in that second category: titanium handles, premium powdered
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