Hasta La Gadget!

If hand-cutting your own microSIM is a little bit too folksy for you, or if you own a back-street cellphone store and find yourself chopping up other people’s SIMs to fit into their iPads, then Henk van Ess’s Cut My Sim might be just the thing.

Instead of scissors or a straight-edge and an X-Acto knife, you just slip your SIM into what looks like a cross between a stapler and a hole-punch and push the lever. The stainless steel jaws clamp shut and strip away the excess plastic surrounding the chip, spitting out a perfectly iPad-ready microSIM.

This may be a little redundant now that carriers in all the countries where the iPad is officially available will just give or sell you the proper card, but that doesn’t make this any less useful for those wishing to hijack a non-iPad data plan or just use a non-supported telco. At the very least you’ll have a nice, retro-style paperweight for your desk.

The Cut My Sim costs $25 and will ship at the end of June. That price includes a plastic tray, called Back to Normal which will let you return it to its former size. Shipping later this month.

Cut Your Own MicroSIM! [Cut My Sim via Core77]

See Also:

• SIM-Trim: Cutting Card Down to MicroSIM Size
• SIMFi, a SIM Card With Built-In Wi-Fi Hotspot
• Fingers-On With The MicroSIM Card Adapter
• Use iPad MicroSIM and Data-Plan in Your iPhone
• How to Use an iPad on (Almost) Any Data Plan in the World