Office tool crossed with a leatherman

The "5-in-1 Office Tool" is basically a leatherman whose body has been replaced with a pocket calculator. It sports a stapler, scissors, measuring tape, and paper-clip holder. Link (via Dvice)

[#1 posted by pstarr , January 12, 2008 10:39 AM]

just add a phone and an mp3 player and be done with it!

[#2 posted by Crankfetter , January 12, 2008 11:23 AM]

What, no taser?

[#3 posted by Bob , January 12, 2008 11:27 AM]

Let's see, it needs....post it dispenser, highliter, flashlight, key ring

[#4 posted by jomarreyes , January 12, 2008 12:04 PM]

Must remember... do not bring on plane...

[#5 posted by jimh , January 12, 2008 12:11 PM]

Looks like cheap plastic crap to me. So, yeah, a perfect gift.

[#6 posted by joel hanes , January 12, 2008 12:16 PM]

Urgh. Five bad tools in one. Instant discard.

The thing that makes the Leatherman great is that the primary tool in each one, pliers or scissors or whatever, is a good one, and the ancilliary tools like the knife and screwdrivers and the bottle operner, are acceptable.

I'd lay even odds that the stapler in this thing sucks. And honestly - I don't need another four-function calculator with bad keys and a bad display.

But ooooooh, a _paper_clip_holder_.

[#7 posted by jimmosk , January 12, 2008 12:24 PM]

What kind of bizarre calculator number-key arrangement is that? Four numbers each in the top two rows with the digits ascending from left to right, two numbers in the bottom row ascending from right to left??

That's enough to win it some kind of bad-design award right there.

There's a better photo of it here.

[#8 posted by ceruleanshipper , January 12, 2008 12:24 PM]

I think I saw this in an Avon brochure as a possible Mother's Day present. Except it was pink. And bejeweled.

[#9 posted by ceruleanshipper , January 12, 2008 12:25 PM]

I think I saw this in an Avon brochure as a possible Mother's Day present. Except it was pink. And bejeweled.

[#10 posted by iguanoid , January 12, 2008 12:29 PM]

Scissors look unusable for lefties.

[#11 posted by Takuan , January 12, 2008 12:55 PM]

now if someone borrows one of your tools they have all of them - and you have none.

I think multitools like Leathermans succeeded because their social milieu of use frowns on borrowing tools.

Offices are marginally more social, hence the unlikely market success of this tool. You are in closer quarters and have to get along and being noticeably less productive because you have lent ALL your tools in one transaction.

Plus it looks like poorly designed,ill thought out, piece of plastic shit that insults the hand the holds it. An ideal "gift".

By the way,dos anyone here believe that stolen tools curse the user?

[#12 posted by elsmiley , January 12, 2008 1:09 PM]

I'm the operator with my pocket calculator.

Stolen tools are karma death.

My favorite tool is an everyday kitchen butter knife.

[#13 posted by mmbb , January 12, 2008 1:44 PM]

Looks like crap that nobody needs, and it's probably bad for the environment, too...

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/01/11/do-gadget-blogs-hurt.html

[#14 posted by Georgia Tills , January 12, 2008 4:26 PM]

I was just thinking, that this won't be good for offices, but it's great for persons that work with cargo, like a relative of mine that has a small business. He often singlehandedly calculate how much of what we have and the cost, cut open boxes, and staple forms. The paperclip thing is useless though. The measuring tape, I suppose one could use it to figure of if there are enough storage spaces.

[#15 posted by Takuan , January 12, 2008 6:06 PM]

now, THAT's a knife

http://users.rcn.com/ed.ma.ultranet/dr6.jpeg

[#16 posted by robophonic , January 13, 2008 2:52 PM]

I dub thee "Khakiman"