A glow keychain is only worth carrying if it lights up when you actually need it. The battery kind dies at the worst possible moment, usually while you’re feeling around a dark bag for your keys in a parking garage. The little light you bought for emergencies turns out to need its own babysitting. Price: […]
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The fireworks aren’t the hard part of July 4th weekend. It’s the logistics: dragging a loaded cooler across soft sand, keeping a phone alive at the lake, and finding music that survives a splash. Prime Day runs June 23 to 26 this year, so the gear that fixes those problems is cheaper right now than
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Leatherman just dropped Prime Day discounts on six of its most popular multitools. If you’ve been waiting to replace a lost Wave or upgrade your everyday carry, the markdowns on the FREE series and Titanium models are significant. Prime Day historically skips the premium multitool category. Leatherman’s USA-built tools tend to hold their price, and
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Most pocket ratchet drivers try to do too much. The bit storage is too small. The ratchet feels loose. The bonus extension is a wobbly stick that ends up in a drawer. FixMan fixes all three at once. It’s a 144-gram Grade 5 titanium driver. The spinning chamber holds 10 standard 1/4-inch bits. The three-mode
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Buck Knives builds its catalog around accessibility and volume, with scarcity reserved for the rare exception. Our EDC Knife of the Week pick is one of those exceptions: the 532 BuckLock, a folder Buck had quietly discontinued and brought back as a limited drop. The run is capped at 500 units, priced at $250, with
EDC Knife of the Week: Buck Resurrects the 532 BuckLock in S35VN for a $250 Limited Drop Read More
Most multitools fail EDC before they leave the drawer. They’re too heavy, too bulky, or packed with tools you’ll never touch. The ones that earn pocket space are built around the 5 or 6 functions you actually reach for. That’s the standard every pick here had to clear. With Father’s Day this weekend, the list
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Stop carrying a brick. The best minimalist wallets strip bulk to exactly what you use, usually four to eight cards and a folded bill or two, without turning into a card-spraying gimmick. RFID blocking is now table stakes, and a fresh crop of leather-and-metal hybrids launched this month marks a clear departure from the early
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Six years deep into building one of the most loyal followings in the fixed-blade world, Montana Knife Company just released its first production folder. The Montana dropped on June 4 at $390, ground around a MagnaCut blade with the thinnest edge MKC has ever produced, and the launch inventory cleared the same day. Drop 02
This $390 MagnaCut Folder Sold Out the Day It Launched Read More
A great summer night runs on good light. Setting up camp after dark, walking the dog before a barbecue, or packing for a long weekend all go smoother with the right flashlight in your pocket. Wuben builds compact lights that punch well above their size, and if you missed our piece on why your next
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For decades a flashlight meant a round metal tube, the kind that rolls off a nightstand and prints through your jeans like a roll of coins. You clicked it, hoped the batteries held, and shook it when the beam went brown. That era is closing, and good riddance. Price: $45.95 Where to Buy: Amazon The
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Reate Knives doesn’t usually show up on a budget EDC list. Look at the brand’s recent catalog and you’ll see titanium frames, M390 blades, and prices that sit comfortably north of $300. The Horizon D in carbon fiber, the Reate Iron series, and the various Mini Horizon variants all hover in that range, and that’s
EDC Knife of the Week: Reate’s Horizon X Drops a Crossbar-Lock Folder to $97 Read More
Every trackable thing you’ve bought in the last five years picked a side. iPhone or Android. Apple Find My or Google Find Hub. Your tracker works great, and your partner’s doesn’t, and that’s just how it goes. Nobody called it a design flaw. It became background noise, an accepted tax you pay for buying into
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You don’t have to spend Sebenza money to get a folder that won’t quit on a real job site. Kizer has spent the last several years building a hard-use catalog that spans M390, S35VN, S45VN, and Elmax, with titanium and Micarta handle options running from $65 to $300. We’ve gone through the current Kizer lineup,
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The Cosmic Orange iPhone 17 Pro landed this fall, and the desk built around one has looked mismatched ever since. Nomad closed that gap on June 9 2026 with a Stellar Orange version of two accessories I already keep in daily rotation: the $39 Tracking Card Pro that lives in my wallet and the $135
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June is tech’s slow-news month. Big launches sit on either side of WWDC and IFA, so most “best of the month” lists this June recycle May leftovers. Ours doesn’t. We’ve pulled together the ten gadgets we’ve been featuring this month, in rough cart-add order. Some are brand-new releases. Some are recent picks that earned a
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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
A $65 VG10 Folding Knife That Skips the Super-Steel Race Read More
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
10 CJRB Knives for People Who Are Tired of Overpaying for EDC Read More
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
The $21 Flashlight That Wants to Replace Everything in Your Drawer Read More
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
This $69 Balisong Multi-Tool Flips, Fidgets, and Opens Your Beer Read More