Awesome Tools

1.5oz jars with magnetic lids. Easy to stack and peruse. You can even order them with spices included plus labeled lids. Or get just the jars and use them to store nuts, bolts and other small items.

Featured in the Museum of Modern Art’s Humble Masterpieces, these cleverly designed rubber bands are great for packing small boxes or other bundles. Each pack comes with 16 rubber bands.

The Forearm Forklift is a pair of adjustable heavy duty nylon straps that make it easier to lift heavy objects. They won’t turn you into Superman, but you’ll spare your fingers and hands from pain.

A small and simple multi-tool that’s at home on a keyring. The 2.75″ long Shard has a pry bar, a small and large flathead screwdriver, a wire stripper, a cross driver and a bottle opener.

A recipient of a 2012 Red Dot Design Award, the PostPump 2.0 is a floor pump that’s built-in to a bicycle seat post. It comes with an adapter that fits both Presta and Schrader tire valves.

Made by Vestergaard Frandsen, the LifeStraw is a durable, long lasting and user friendly water filter that doesn’t use chemicals. One unit can filter 99.9% of bacteria from 264 gallons of water.

John Neeman Tools is a small Latvian-based team that specializes in making woodworking tools and knives by hand. This video shows how they make an axe. The song is Holocene by Bon Iver.

With its wide, upswept axe blade, penetrating spike and paracord-wrapped reinforced handle, ThinkGeek’s lightweight ATT is a great tool to decapitate walkers. Bonus: karambit coming soon.

A hammer that will get you hammered. This functional tool doesn’t come with beer, but it does have the next best thing. Its nail claw has been converted to a bottle opener. Don’t build & drink.

The Lamello Invis Mx is an innovative fastener, which allows wood to be joined without any visible screws, and for parts to be assembled without clamping, thanks to a special magnetic driver.

7″ flashlights with flexible silicone bodies meant to wrap and attach to a variety of objects. Use them as bike lights, on repair jobs and more. The LEDs can be steady or set to flash.

A folding knife that doubles as a flashlight. The Blade Light has 3 LEDs on either side of the handle, eliminating shadows when the blade is unsheathed. The handle has a waterproof rating of IPX-7.

More from Zai and Kacper Hamilton. These two tools – a pocket knife and a screwdriver – are based on the Higonokami, a 19th century Japanese knife. Made from steel and anodized aluminum.

Thumbs up to the discreet, aerospace aluminum Keyshark bottle opener; the tiny, highly engineered tool is lightweight and can open all sorts of microbrews thanks to its shape. (Thanks Bob!)

While we wouldn’t trust this thing to stop an armed attacker with a real gun, this power screwdriver that looks like a revolver should be able to take down philips and flat-blade screws with its six bits.

Insert the Quik-Chek into a tire’s valve stem then press and hold its button. A green line means the tire is properly inflated, red means the tire is under-inflated and orange means it’s over-inflated.