Fifty-Cent Escape Knife

Paranoia or good planning — whatever the reason, this Fifty-Cent Escape Knife is a unique and potentially life-saving piece of kit. During a search, coins are the most overlooked items on a person, making this perfect for either carrying or pre-placement. A Japanese circular steel blade is housed in a case made from a split 50-cent piece — the real, official US currency — and is capable of cutting through rope, zip ties, or other non-metallic materials. The two halves are securely held together with a rubber o-ring in a channel around the coin's perimeter, with the coin itself providing a solid grip.

Weight: 0.35 oz

Freewrite Traveler Digital Typewriter

Staying away from distractions on a phone, laptop, or tablet so you can think and write is very difficult. So difficult that a device like the Freewrite Traveler makes perfect sense. It has a main 4.76" x 2.75" E Ink screen, with a smaller status screen below it, a full-size, scissor-switch keyboard with 2mm of travel, and very little else. It's constantly saving in the background to its internal flash storage, has WiFi for backing up to the cloud, and has an internal battery that lasts for up to four weeks, recharges over USB-C, and enables the device to weigh under two pounds with a footprint half the size of a typical laptop.