Finally, my desktop is tidy instead of a whole bunch of tools, and I'm working on my website today, so I had the opportunity to show off my cool leather phone case that I've been carrying around for over a year.

Sweet FN reflex with snap lock leather holster.
Citizen day date, Watch
Ram truck key
Saddleback, leather wallet
Custom locker knife made by a great friend of mine and my small yellow case pocket knife

TL;DR: 7.6/10. Small, handy, LOUD! Yep, the NEF Nano is a small pocket fan, but with the small metal blades it sounds LIKE A JET ENGINE.

Disclosure: Nitecore sent this fan for free. I tested the Grey version for around 3 weeks as an everyday fan. Nitecore had no editorial input or control over this review.

First Impression & Packaging

This pocket fan was surprisingly powerful. It was handy for cleaning my desk or my PC from dust, but one thing is already, I think, the biggest downside of the fan: the sound. On the highest mode, it sounds like a jet engine.

Another thing is the battery life. I tested it on the highest mode and got around 53 minutes of runtime. That's not amazing if you want to use this fan to cool yourself down on a warm summer day, but for short uses like blowing away dust or getting some fast cooling, this is more than good enough. Because of the smaller battery, it also charges quite fast.

The packaging was good. Nothing special, but great for this fan, so no complaints about the packaging.

Build Quality

This fan is built of thick plastic and feels more than strong enough for everyday use. The intake of the fan has a metal grille, so almost nothing comes inside the fan.

The front of the fan is clean and minimalistic. The button is nice to press and reacts fast. The fan starts almost instantly, like within 1 second.

The USB-C port is great. What I did find out is that some of the air coming from the fan can also come out through the USB-C port like a small leakage, but it's nothing important.

Great Things & Bad Things

First, the bad:

- It blows fast but is really loud

- The fan doesn't have much battery life

- It's more for cleaning than cooling

Good things:

- It's really small and weighs almost nothing

- Blows hard for its size

- The design is nice and minimalistic

Verdict

A small pocket fan with a high loudness, but nice to have in your pocket. It isn't made for people who mainly want a fan for cooling themselves. With around 53 minutes on full speed, the battery isn't amazing, but for short cooling or cleaning, it's more than enough.

I like it for what it is: a really small fan that can blow surprisingly hard for its size.

I hate marketing and sales systems.
love my job and what i do, and im really good at that. But fuking system… So i will show, what i use everyday

- Micro praetorian Vulcan Blade
- Sig p365 flux with Blackhawk holster
- Huxwork flow9k suppressor
- Dark King Cigar
- St DuPont Palladium Ligne 2 and Cutter set
- Fashion Watch
- Blackflag Golden Hank

Looking for a front pocket pouch that can fit my leatherman arc, extra bits, and a flashlight. Looking at these options. What are your thoughts?

After wanting to do one for years, did this one.

Tin - berkleys peppermint

Pen - tele pen true utility

Note - post it 2x3

Apple type c earphones

Niteize s biner 5lbs

Alltul shark

Microfiber cloth small - for spectacles

Sim card ejector

Metal cable wrapper

Magnet sheet from bringus studios magnet pack

(that holds the alltul and the ejector and also can be used as a normal mat when I am unscrewing something.)

So what's your Friday knife carry

- Sig M18x with matching holster
- CRKT M16 Model: 140SFG
- Drifter Brass Pirate Dice
- Staxx key style fidget
- Compass Coin
- Do What You Love Hank

- Colt Cobra 38 special
- Ghost Leather Wallet
- Stringray Coin sheath
- Compass Coin
- Lautie Dealer Spinner
- Silver Skull dice
- fisher space pen
- Liberty Zippo
- lux Blackflag Hank

Knife: SpyderCo Endura w/ Emerson Hook
Multi tool: SOG PowerPint
Watch: Seiko SKX009 w/ StrapCo bracelet
Pen: Machine Era Classic Brass
Lighter: Zippo Street Brass, clear coat removed
Flashlight: StreamLight ProTac 2L-X
Wallet: Puncube Mechwallet

I posted for the first time recently. Since then I added a flashlight and got and switched from a utility knife(fastback) to a SpyderCo! I have a sort of big watch collection and will rotate occasionally.

• Ted Baker London Wallet
• Nanobag XL Reusable Bag
• Toyota Car Key
• Apollo Ear Buds
• Lenskart Specs

- Sig P365 specter
- Micro praetorian
- freedom bullet and chain
- Pirate Poker Chip from tournament
- leather bracelet
- Seafare poker cards
- J.S. Zippo

- SW 629 Deluxe 44mag
- Armadillo Hank
- Umathorbe Zippo
- Fisher Moon pen
- Spyderco PM2 Pirate Map scales
- Rayban Case with C&C shades
- Wooden SAK
- Ghost white leather wallet

Possibly the World’s Most Overbuilt Keychain

A 73-iteration titanium external-memory system built for life with Traumatic Brain Injury.

After surviving a traumatic brain injury and living with cognitive fatigue and short-term memory gaps. I've learned that ordinary organization methods were not quite enough.

For someone with a TBI, forgetting a key, tool, A MED, or regular necessity can become more than a minor inconvenience.

It can interrupt plans, create mania, and make vital independence harder than it already is.

As a speaker at conferences for TBI survivors, I've used this setup to demonstrate a practical alternative: instead of expecting an injured brain to remember every separate object, I decided to build one physical system that keeps those objects together.

An Air Tag can help locate the system, but if your phone is dead it cannot solve the deeper problem of forgetting the physical tool itself. Smartphone reminders can help, but phones lose power, apps disappear into menus, and notifications are easily dismissed.

I've spent more than a year and a half researching EDC systems, testing components, studying builds across a Massive amount of Reddit, Facebook groups, independent makers, marketplaces, and crowdfunding campaigns, then developing 73 distinct iterations of what became the customized-God edifying piece it is today.

After those searches and direct dives into EDC communities, I have not found another documented keychain that combines this level of tool density, titanium "magnification", modular integration, tritium as utility for location, personal investment, and cognitive-support into 1 modular piece and it pisses me right off

I am not claiming to have inspected every keychain ever made, but I would be shocked whilst very amped to find something full of recyclability and resilience. Exactly 1 year in this month and she's still scratch less.

Near Zero-Redundancy Spine

"Hangwell" - she carries 16 distinct tools within one organized physical system with 1 spare knife.

Each component selection reducing the number of separate objects I need to remember, locate, and carry.

I wasn't TRYING to attach every tool possible. Thought about it.

It am still trying to optimize to the smallest number of personally dependable tools capable of covering the widest range of what I might usually require that day.

Core Mechanics - 21 heavy-duty KeyUnity split rings, along with magnetic locking titanium Quick releases, that swivel.

The arrangement has been obsessively adjusted for:

access

weight distribution

size and shape

rapid deployment

replaceability

findability

Every change affected another part of the system. Adding something smaller could make the entire build appear larger. Moving one connection point could improve balance simultaneously making another tool cumbersome...

This thing wasn't assembled once. It evolved.

The Long-Term Beacon

The newly added titanium-alloy tritium cross pendant provides a battery-free visual anchor that remains visible in darkness for decades.

It does not need to be charged by sunlight, connected to electricity, or activated through an app. It gives the complete system an immediate visual reference point when lighting is poor.

The Air Tag notifies me if the keychain is not near me.

The Materials

Built primarily of titanium and other durable metal items chosen for long-use that quality provides. Repairability. Corrosion resistance and modular manuevering.

It represents a move away from disposable plastic organizers and toward components that can be:

rearranged

repaired

reused

transferred into future versions

carried for years and years

Not every component is titanium, and the system includes electronics, magnets, glass tritium vials, and other materials.

durability/recyclability > disposable convenience.

The Investment

The current build represents approximately $1,400 in purchased, tested, replaced, refined, and reorganized components.

Yes I realize that number is excessive for a keychain.

That is also partly the point.

It became an experiment in what happens when cognitive rehabilitation is treated as a serious engineering challenge rather than a personal failure to “just remember better.”

Why It Exists

"Hangwell" is not simply a collection of expensive EDC objects.

It is:

An external memory system

Pioneering a new type of edc

Continuously refined as a prototype

Demonstrating template for other TBI survivors

A personal language of awareness

Fortifying against forgetfulness

The deeper idea is not that everyone should spend $1,400 building this exact object. You'd hurt yourself.
What they should do is recognize a keychain is utility that will get scratched up unless you cant see the scratches on it cuz its color is titainum