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iPhone 4 Titanium Cover from Snow Peak

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Snow Peak is well known for their innovative products produced in Titanium. Generally, they are things like sporks and kick ass mugs. Stuff you use while camping. So their newest offering is a bit of a surprise.

Cool right? Now the downer part. These nuggets come directly from their web site:

※ This product is intended to cover and not intended to protect.
※ This product is made of metal that may degrade performance of radio transceiver.
※ Use of this product could result in iPhone 4 being scratched.

www.snowpeak.com

Thanks Nick!

Something for the Cigar Smokers

Friday, June 10th, 2011

Fisher Space Pen Company has combined their already kick ass pen design with a cigar punch. The punch is ingeniously concealed in the pen’s cap and they have included a stone to keep the punch sharp. Additionally, the pen can be attached to your keys or a lanyard so that it will always be handy.

spacepencigarpunch.com

Luminox Recon Point Man 45mm

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Luminox, recently introduced the first watch in its all-new Recon Series. Designed in collaboration with Andrea Micheli, a former Swiss Army Military Security NCO, journalist specializing in military affairs and shooting instructor, the Recon series is intended to meet the requests from professional military personnel for an analog watch that can also be used as a simple, but efficient ground navigation tool.

The Recon Point Man watch feature a black carbon-reinforced polycarbonate case, a contrast-color countdown quadrant of the dial that can be used to time maneuvers, a dive timer unidirectional ratcheting bezel with a compass rose, highly scratch resistant sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coatings and of course the always visible self-powered illumination found in all Luminox watches. The watch is powered by the precise Swiss Made Ronda quartz movement. It is water resistance to 200 meters, 20 ATM and features a 50 month battery life. Additionally, it is packaged in a tactical PALS compatible sunglass case.

There are two versions. One is metric and the other English. The watch features a special “Walking Speed” scale on the dial to calculate your approximate average walking/hiking speed per hour. This calculation is based on a distance of 50 m / 164 ft and works very simply:

You take a pace count. Determine a course of 50 m / 164 ft and start counting your steps when Mickey’s second hand is on 12 o’clock. At the end of the 50 m / 164 ft you can read the second hand on the concentric walking speed scale to determine how fast you are walking in an hour (km/h or mph depending on the model).

www.luminox.com

Thanks Mattias

Magpul iPhone 4 Cases Now Fit Verizon & AT&T

Sunday, May 15th, 2011

iPhone 4 Executive Cases are now compatible with Verizon Wireless as well as AT&T Wireless iPhone 4 models. Magpul also widened the area around the flash to ensure better photographs. Gotta love it when a great product just gets better.

store.magpul.com

Gerber Cable Dawg

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

We were able to take a closer look at the Gerber Cable Dawg at Warrior Expo West. It is an impressive tool designed specifically for military Information Technology specialists but in our conversations with readers we have come to realize that it has just as much applicability in the civilian market. It features a Wire cutter, CAT5 jacket cutter, RJ45 Crimper Head, Wire strippers, Knife blade, Magnetic driver extension with tool heads. Additionally, the handles are crafted from glass filled nylon to help reduce weight and the side of the handle that houses the driver extension and tool heads can be removed.

www.GerberGear.com

Gerber products are available for agency and unit purchase through www.ADSinc.com/Gerber.

Journal Bandolier

Saturday, April 9th, 2011

If you use a journal to take notes then you probably run into the same problem that we do; what to do with your pens. And, if you’re like us, you probably have a whole collection of pens. So what do you do with your pens? The maker of the Journal Bandolier had exactly the same problem.

Here is a concise description from the website.

This style of Bandolier is handmade using reclaimed rubber and elastic. The strap is 2 inches wide and sewn into a loop which measures 5.75 inches long when laid flat. It fits easily around books that run a little over 5 inches wide such as the Moleskine 5.52×8.25 inch journal or the Handbook journal of a similar size. Each loop is approximately 1 inch wide. There are a total of 7 loops.

Notice how the maker spells Bandolier. That lets you know that it will only be available on Etsy. Unfortunately, the only cool color is Black, but that’s ok, because so are our Moleskines. Product may vary slightly from the photo as they are all handmade and custom sizes are also available.

www.etsy.com

Hardcore Hardware Australia

Friday, April 8th, 2011

From a land down under comes Hardcore Hardware’s new Tomahawk. Crafted from coated D2 tool steel, the handle is wrapped in 550 cord and comes with a nylon MOLLE compatible sheath. This is brand new on the market and looks to be built with a severe dosage of arse-kickery involved.

www.hardcorehardware.com.au

Win Rip Shears

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

That’s right. The folks at Rip Shears want to give away set of Rip Shears (black ripper on shears) and a Firefly Ripper (ripper only) with an instructional DVD, brochure and stickers to three lucky SSD readers. In order to enter just tell us (in the comments sections below) how you’d use Rip Shears, at work, play, or wherever. Let your imagination run wild! Bullets are fine for those who are slow typists. The important thing is to enter…and to tell your friends.

We will randomly pick three winners on Monday, 4 April, 2011 at 1200 GMT. Offer void where prohibited. Must be 18 to enter.

www.ripshears.com