Has anyone heard of Schrade's new i-QUIP and Navitool items? They certainly don't look like anything I've seen before.<br><br>They are billed as "Intelligent Equipment for the Outdoors." The i-QUIP won the 2001 Popular Mechanics Design & Engineering Award.

You may like to read Doug's impressions<br><br> here ---> scroll down to the schrade tool.... <br><br><br>

Yeah, a good friend of mine has one. He's in love with the thing...and I wouldn't be supprised if he kept it under his pillow at night, wrapped up in a baby diaper. Anyway, I'm trying to get him to let me "borrow" it, and then talk him in to letting me do a pass-around to some established members of this forum. We'll see.<br><br>P.S. What the hell is Safety Of Life At Sea, just more unverifiable, marketing jargon I guess.<br><br>John McIntire

I don't like the idea of putting all of my eggs into one basket. I'd end up getting a compass, whistle, mirror, fire w/tender, SAK and so on just so I'd have backup to the tool for when it died or I lost it.

SOLAS-its a Coast Guard Certification or the like.

Longbow50,<br><br>I couldn't agree more. I don't trust my life to anything that runs on batteries or fuel.<br><br>John McIntire

SOLAS is an international maritime law ("blue water") standard, not coastal.

Well, you gotta admit, they do look cool.

Thats why I refuse to buy a gps or anything like that. I dont mind doing things the old fashion way. lol.<br><br>ballon man

Yes <br><br>I have The Navitool.It is a very neat tool.It has all the blades from a swiss army knife along with a compass,small flashlight,signal mirror,a compartment for a Bic lighter, and a whistle.