Arthur Xin’s Soft Screwdriver is a clever combination of tool-roll and multi-tip screwdriver. Like a bullet-belt, the soft case has tubes to stow seven screwdriver shafts, plus one larger tube with a metal handle into which you slip any of these shafts.
Then you just roll up the bag and it wraps around the central section to form a big, easy-to-grip handle.
It’s a concept design, and as such could do with a little more work. In particular, chirality seems to have been somewhat overlooked, which is a problem in a screwdriver. First, the handle would tighten itself in one direction and loosen in the other, meaning constant re-wrapping when swapping between screwing and unscrewing.
Worse is the method of tip-attachment: the various shafts actually screw into the master handle-tube, again giving one-way screwing.
These could be easily fixed with a Velcro tab on the roll-end and a bayonet fixing in the handle, making this a very practical multi-tool. And hey, maybe they could include a screwdriver to open up Apple’s evil iScrews?
How About a Soft Screw? [Yanko]
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