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https://www.adafruit.com/product/4373#tutorials

(Edited to replace kickstarter link because KS owner is a evangelical self-defense missionary person and creeped me out: this version goes to the infinitely less-dodgy Adafruit.)

Tactical Multi-Tool Hairpin / Hair Clip

Trends come and go, but preparedness is always in fashion! Have you ever been in a situation where you desperately needed a screwdriver right away? Now you can have one at-the-ready all ...

@cstross my wife wants them just for the capacity to cut through cable ties. Apparently the scissors at work don't.

@skribe @cstross

As someone who has bought gimmick multi-tools like this in the past I can speak from experience:

These won't cut those cable ties, either.

There's a reason that the photograph in the ad is using a pre-cut apple. (-:

They'll also get stuck if used as advertised (by many eBay sellers) as tokens for supermarket trolleys, not fit the hex nut that you need to turn, and slice your fingers off in the rare case that the nut size matches.

@JdeBP @cstross are you suggesting that someone lied? In advertising? How dare you!