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Minimalist wallets made with Carbon and Kevlar fibers – RAGGEDedge Gear

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RAGGEDedge Gear Inc. is a mother and daughter team that offers some very trendy looking wallets, gear bag, purses and pouches made of sailcloth. Sailcloth is the material used to make sails for sailboats. It’s very tough, light weight, waterproof, smell proof, stretch resistant and extremely easy to clean. Some of their products are constructed […]

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From messenger bags to sneakers – Chrome Bags

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Chrome has been manufacturing premium messenger bags like the Citizen messenger bag for the last 14 years.  Now they are branching out with a line of shoes. Their new Red Sole line of sneakers have a classic design, but are built with bikers in mind.  They are made of Cordura and feature a Texon board

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Ask a gorilla to hold your flashlight – Joby Gorillatorch

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Joby launches the Gorillatorch, a flashlight featuring a 65 lumen ultra-bright CREE LED that is powered by 3 AA batteries. The brightness can be adjusted with the easy slide dimmer feature and the three legged base is bendable and has rubberized grips with magnetized feet so that easily pose the light to shine on a

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Cordfree, cradlefree charging for your devices

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Wireless may be all the rage these days, but despite the portability afforded by many different types of devices, they still need to be plugged in or cradled to charge them.  WildCharge offers an interesting solution to this dilemma.  Consisting of an adapter that attaches to the device and a charge pad that is plugged

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Charge 3 devices at a time – iLuv iAD117 Adapter

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iLuv has just announced the iAD 117 Triple USB Port Power Adapter and iAD116 Mini USB Power Adapter. This new series of small easy to carry power adapters aimed at travelers wanting to lighten their gadget load. The iAD117 features 3-USB ports for charging up to 3-devices at once and is available in international versions.

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Gerber announces Crucial multi-tool

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If your gadget tastes lean more toward the utilitarian, you may be happy to learn that Gerber, famous for their knives and multi-tools (and not baby food), have added a number of new items to their multi-tool family, including the Crucial multi-tool and the Curve keychain tool.  The Crucial (pictured) is a butterfly-opening pocketable tool

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Weird Al would be proud of this wallet

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Keeping on The Gadgeteer’s theme of wallets that are non-traditional and “gadgety,” check out the Ögon Designs “Fan Shaped” Aluminum Wallet.  Similar in form factor and function to the Jimi, Flipside and Flipside 2 wallets, it has a few interesting differences.  This French-designed wallet features an aluminum shell (which Ögon claims can shield credit cards

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Multi-tool with a wrench – Spyderco Byrdrench

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The Spyderco Byrdrench is unlike any multi-tool that I’ve seen before. The tool’s housing is two stainless halves that join creating slip joint pliers (with a large or small bite) on one end and an adjustable 9/16” crescent wrench on the opposite end. Other tools include a knife, file, hole starter and a bit housing

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Pocket knife / lighter combo – Spyderco Firebyrd

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The Spyderco Firebyrd combines three tools into one pocket sized device. You get a cutting blade, a lighter and a bottle opener. It has a notch-joint (non-locking) drop-point blade that opens/closes one-handedly. Its hollow aluminum handle holds a standard-sized lighter (not included) with peek-a-boo cutouts revealing the lighter inside.

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Back to school combination locks

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Just in time for back-to-school, Master Lock is introducing two new families of combination locks – the 1500iD Speed Dial Set-Your-Own Combination Lock and the 1590D Set-Your-Own Combination Lock. Both feature brand new technology and were designed with students’ unique learning styles in mind: – The Speed Dial Set-Your-Own Combination Lock opens on up-down-left-right directional

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A pen that might be mightier than a sword – Benchmade 1100

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The Benchmade 1100 series pen is made of anodized CNC machined Aluminum or Stainless Steel and uses ink cartridges manufactured by Fisher Pen Company. This instrument can be used as a pen or a kubotan (a self defense weapon). This particular model is available in several colors and sells for $120. Benchmade makes other pens

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The original multi-tool – Spyderco Byrd 8-Tool Harp

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English tradesmen in the 1880’s invented the original multi-tool called the Harp Tool. Bricklayers, long shore men and the like carried Harp Tools, named for their shape resembling the musical instrument. Inside the harp would be implements specific to the trade or craft. The Spyderco Byrd 8-Tool Harp includes: a Phillips-head screwdriver, slotted-head screwdriver, saw,

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