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The MetMo Pocket Driver
A compact version of their wildly successful ratcheting screwdriver design
Last year British engineers launched the MetMo Driver, a sleekly-modern redesign of an antique German ratcheting screwdriver. It was a wild smash on Kickstarter; they were seeking just £5,000 (USD $6,290) in pledges, but netted £1,107,288 (USD $1.4 million).
The original MetMo Driver
The original MetMo Driver
How could you improve upon the design? MetMo's answer: Make a smaller, more compact version with the same functionality. A shrewd move, as it then hits up that gigantic EDC market looking for pocketable items.
The new, reduced-dimension MetMo Pocket Driver
The new, reduced-dimension MetMo Pocket Driver
The new, reduced-dimension MetMo Pocket Driver
Thus their new MetMo Pocket Driver is smaller and weighs less. Where the original was 165mm (6.5") long, 30mm (1.2") in diameter and weighed 320g (11.25 oz), the Pocket version is 103mm (4") long, 20mm (0.8") in diameter.
Weights for the Pocket version vary by material options: Anodized black aluminum, 109g (3.8 oz); black steel, 149g (5.2 oz); stainless steel, 230g (8.1 oz).
The MetMo Pocket Driver is currently up on Kickstarter, with buy-in starting at $112. They've already achieved their paltry $6,287 target; at press time they were coming up on $500,000 in pledges, and there's still nearly two months left to pledge. I'll be surprised if this doesn't eventually surpass the original in funding.
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When knocking off an old tool design, its really important to make it seem sexy and useful. Here is a video of mostly the same design from 1891 being restored really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmSXo0XdWoA
Looks impressive and certainly handy. How the bolts that connect the handle to the main body will hold up to twisting without loosening over time, is my nitpick.