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Bizarre EDC Object: A Titanium Folding Fan for Breaking Windows
This crowdfunding smash is "lighter than 3 eggs"
Once again I've misjudged the limits of the "everyday carry" market, which has always been centered on "You need object X to help you deal with emergency situation Y." The X and Y are growing ever more bizarre.
The market's latest entrant, which has been a smash hit on Kickstarter, is this folding fan made with titanium blades and silk fabric.
Chinese manufacturer Titaner boasts that their EDC Fan is "lighter than three eggs," which is a weird metric. (I live on a chicken farm and I'm struggling to imagine what the weight of three eggs feels like.) As for what this object does, apparently you're meant to carry it around in case you ever need to break a window or a cylindrical piece of ice.
The fans are expected to retail for $550, and are apparently flying off the Kickstarter shelves at the early bird price of $310. At press time it'd not only been successfully funded, but had garnered over $112,000 in pledges on a $10,000 goal, with 22 days left to pledge.
So that idea you had for a Kickstarter, that you talked yourself out of? Maybe it doesn't sound so harebrained now. I have to believe there are dozens of you out there with better and more useful ideas than this.
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no claims about defensive abilities but... being made out of metal...
It may be based upon a traditional "fighting fan," such as the one young Yoshitsune used to defeat Benkei on a Kyoto bridge late one night. I remember with great fondness watching a group of women do a fan form in a park one Hong Kong morning.
..."which is a weird metric"... I know people who measure things in ounces, inches, feet and yards (there might be something called the "egg" standard).
Hiding its true purpose as a weapon?
Pretty sure that cylinder is ice. Given the weight distribution of the design and relative flexibility of titanium, I can't see how this is much better than a nice, lightweight, personal fan. I have to imagine, given Chinese companies' track record, that a great deal of those kick-starter sales are spurious.