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The 2026 Summer Pocket Dump: 8 New EDC Knives and Multitools Worth Your Pocket Space

By Rei Padla / June 26, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, folding knife, Knives, Multi-tool / Leave a Comment

Summer means more time outdoors, more travel, and more small jobs that a good blade or multitool can solve in seconds. The spring knife shows already dropped a fresh wave of releases, from a four-figure Spyderco anniversary piece to a sub-$40 steel pry tool you won’t baby. We pulled together eight new or newly refreshed […]

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The 9 EDC Tacray Picks Worth a Pocket Clip in 2026

By Rei Padla / June 24, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / Amazon, EDC, folding knife, Knives, prime day, Prime Day 2026 / Leave a Comment

9 Tacray EDC Picks Worth a Pocket Clip in 2026

Tacray’s been quietly building a reputation since 2013 for titanium EDC that doesn’t punish your wallet, and the brand keeps showing up in our coverage. We covered the Tacray Vinto under $40 in May, then the Tacray MP1 multitool pen before that, and both pieces ended up cited in our wider EDC roundups. This list

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Why a Titanium Capsule That Never Needs Charging Is Pulling in EDC Backers

By Rei Padla / June 24, 2026 / Articles / Crowdfunded, EDC, Flashlight, Kickstarter, Multi-tool / Leave a Comment

ORIONER TP01 Gr5 Titanium Capsule EDC Glow Pendant Where to Back

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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10 Things to Buy for July 4th Weekend on Prime Day 2026

By Rei Padla / June 23, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / Activity tracker, Amazon, Bluetooth headphones, Bluetooth speaker, EDC, fan, Flashlight, Health and fitness, Multi-tool, power station, Prime Day 2026, Smartwatch / Leave a Comment

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 Prime Day 2026 Deals: 6 Multitools on Sale

By Rei Padla / June 23, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, Leatherman, Multi-tool, Prime Day 2026 / Leave a Comment

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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Revolver-Style Bit Chamber Lives Inside This 144-Gram Titanium Driver

By Rei Padla / June 23, 2026 / Articles / Crowdfunded, EDC, Kickstarter, Multi-tool / Leave a Comment

FixMan Reinvented Titanium Ratchet Driver Availability

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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EDC Knife of the Week: Buck Resurrects the 532 BuckLock in S35VN for a $250 Limited Drop

By Rei Padla / June 22, 2026 / Articles / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

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

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The 7 Best Pocket Multitools Under $100 for Your Mid-2026 EDC

By Rei Padla / June 19, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, Multi-tool / Leave a Comment

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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5 Minimalist Wallets That Actually Earn Pocket Space in 2026

By Rei Padla / June 19, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, Wallets / 1 Comment

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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This $390 MagnaCut Folder Sold Out the Day It Launched

By Rei Padla / June 19, 2026 / Articles / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

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

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One Wuben Flashlight Hits 12,000 Lumens, Plus 9 More for Summer

By Rei Padla / June 17, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, Flashlight / Leave a Comment

10 Wuben Flashlights and the Prime Day Prices to Watch

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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Why Your Next Flashlight Should Be Flat

By Rei Padla / June 15, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, Flashlight / 2 Comments

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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EDC Knife of the Week: Reate’s Horizon X Drops a Crossbar-Lock Folder to $97

By Rei Padla / June 15, 2026 / Articles / EDC, folding knife, Knives / 1 Comment

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

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Journey LOC8 VERSA Universal MagSafe Money Clip Wallet and Stand Review

By Vincent Nguyen / June 15, 2026 / Reviews, Featured / EDC, Wallets / Leave a Comment

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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10 Hard-Use Kizer Knives Ready for Serious Utility in 2026

By Rei Padla / June 14, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

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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Nomad Tracking Card Pro and Stand One Review (Stellar Orange)

By Vincent Nguyen / June 14, 2026 / Reviews / charging stand, EDC, tracker / Leave a Comment

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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10 Must-Have Gadgets Worth Adding to Your Shopping Cart this June

By Rei Padla / June 12, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / Earphones, EDC, fan, Mini PC, smart home / Leave a Comment

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 $65 VG10 Folding Knife That Skips the Super-Steel Race

By Rei Padla / June 11, 2026 / Articles / Crowdfunded, EDC, folding knife, Kickstarter, Knives / Leave a Comment

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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10 CJRB Knives for People Who Are Tired of Overpaying for EDC

By Rei Padla / June 11, 2026 / Buyer's Guide / EDC, folding knife, Knives / Leave a Comment

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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The $21 Flashlight That Wants to Replace Everything in Your Drawer

By Rei Padla / June 10, 2026 / Articles / Crowdfunded, EDC, Flashlight, Kickstarter / Leave a Comment

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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