The Coolest Bracelet In The Known Universe

The Leatherman Tread will come out this Summer. It’s an interesting departure for the company, and an industry first: a serious multi-tool that can be worn on the wrist. Each link on the band includes two to three functional tools, for a total of 25 usable features.

It’s an ingenious design. The bracelet is fully customizable and can be re-built with slotted fasteners. The user can rearrange links, add or remove tools, or just adjust the bracelet’s size for comfort down to one quarter of an inch. Even the clasp is functional, with a bottle opener and #2 square drive. Other tools include hex drives, screwdrivers, box wrenches, a carbide glass breaker, and a hook-style box cutter that doubles as a SIM card pick.

Know what you’re thinking: Those links are going to snap off when I torque the hex nuts on my portable DAC. Wrong. This MacGyver wristband is constructed of metal-injected molded 17-4 stainless steel. The tools may be tiny, but they’re not going to snap or bend under stress. There’s an optional Swiss quartz movement watch (available in the fall of 2015), but I see the crafty Bushwick guys opting for the naked bracelet, which looks kinda Chrome Hearts.

Let's say you're out in the wilds of say, your cubicle, when you suddenly encounter a life or death situation involving a loose screw. Do you have time to remove and disassemble your wrist watch or bracelet in order to fix it? And, when you do, will that dinky little half-length bit actually be able to access the screw head? In any circumstance more recessed than a flush screw head with plenty of clear access for your closed fist to turn in, neither of the Tread's two Phillips drivers will work.

90% of wearers will be hipsters that have never and will never use any of the included tools(or their full size equivalents)

The title of this thread deceived me.

90% of wearers will be hipsters that have never and will never use any of the included tools(or their full size equivalents)

Why do you hate the free market?

Why just hipsters? Amongst my friends, the ones I'd assume wouldn't know which end of the hammer to use (all the nerds and singers and such) are the ones who own fabrication tools for woodworking or metal-shaping, and the ones I'd instinctively call when I need to replace my brake pads, the ones who look like they'd replace their blood with WD-40 if they could, don't even know what a jack point is on a car frame.

What is a TSA bin?

Just because I want to be contrary, jewelry is only useless in a utilitarian sense, and one can make arguments for portable material wealth or multi-purpose jewelry above and beyond merely having a timepiece. Then there's dog tags and medical information bracelets (MyID makes them entirely fashionable). I've worn housekeys around my neck and re-purposed silicone bracelets. We don't do it much anymore but signet rings are a thing that exists. There's the many uses of piercings, not least being stimulation.

And, of course, it's still to call adornment useless. It acts as an identifier, a signal of social status, of fashion sense, that sort of thing.

And indicating identity, financial status, social caste, or medical status are not accomplishing a task at hand, huh? Nor is acting as compact, portable wealth? It must be interesting to try to make words mean what you want them to mean instead of what everyone else uses them for.

Here's a thought: say "I don't like jewelry." Full stop.

Except by the act of use for a purpose other than adornment they cease to be Jewelry.

A person can take a toilet seat and wear it as a hat, but if you ***on their head I doubt they will Be understanding of the argument "But its a toilet seat."

Gold earrings traded as currency are then currency, when you use them as adornment they cease to have use.

I thought it was going to be about this thing:
http://www.globetoday.com/future-is-now-epic-bracelet-that-turns-your-arm-into-a-touchscreen-phone/


Way cooler than that lolmultitool. (still douchebaggy)

Not really interested in armpad or w/e, just noticed the chick in the pic has some really nice feet!

Good for you.

I personally have hands, fingers, tongue, and if all else fails toes, but hey if your piercings work for you yay.

Dog tags and Med bracelets are not jewelry, they are identification. The primary purpose is to identify a soldier, or person and their medical conditions. If you wear dog tags as jewelry then they lose their purpose and are just useless. (Yes even momentos are useless).
It can also be argued that once Jewelry is no longer used for adornment it ceases to be jewelry and instead the tool/currency it is being utilized as.

To clarify

Use would be the ability to be used to accomplish a task at hand.

Pretty sure most people who study the human mind would disagree with you. Trust me when I say that I'm against frivolous pointless accessories, but things of sentimental value, have function, just because you don't comprehend it doesn't mean it's not there.