Everyday carry
If you’re the sort of person who doesn’t carry around any
old rubbish with them each day, you’ll be interested in this. Combining six
useful and essential tools in one sleek and stylish body, we were intrigued to
try the Olixar HexStyli 6-in-1 Stylus Pen.
The ‘everyday carry’ is a serious and growing subculture, whereby practitioners attempt to carry with them each day tools and handy things that they might need, all neatly packed in tiny gadgets. So the HexStyli stylus pen will definitely be of interest, particularly because within that classic pen shape you get a multi-direction touchscreen stylus, a ruler, a spirit level, a two-headed screwdriver, and of course an actual ball point pen.
The Olixar HexStyli 6-in-1 Stylus Pen feels great in the
hand, thanks in no small part to the sooth all-over aluminium. As well as
feeling well made you can obviously tell it has been made to last and also be
carried around in the bottom of bags and slid into pockets.
In use we found the pen facility was always very welcome and
also discovered that just because we had a good stylus in our pockets, we used
it. Although quite chunky and probably not necessarily all that suitable for
phones, we found it was great on a larger screen tablet, especially for
sketching and scribbling hand-written notes.
The ruler and spirit level are great, with the latter
actually giving a good reading (unlike some other so-called multi-tools with
one built in). Also having the double-headed screwdriver close at hand was
alarmingly useful, and if you work with gadgets as much as we do, those with
fiddly little screw-close battery compartments, you’ll love this.
Probably more suited to the everyday carry enthusiast who
works with electronics and digital crafts, the Olixar HexStyli 6-in-1 Stylus
Pen is a genuinely well-made and well-thought out piece of pocket kit.
£9.99
Available from www.amazon.co.uk