@1DisabledWarVet Chip On Board. That’s tech where the bare LED chip is attached to a heat-sink substrate directly, instead of being encapsulated first. The COB LED may then get a protective and optically useful clear encapsulation applied to the emitting face, or just a thin anti-oxidation coating if that’s all that the application requires. Each COB has multiple actual LEDs in the emitter array; it takes a minimum of three to produce what appears to be white light (red, green and blue LEDs in very close proximity), and some of the COB devices have literally thousands of tiny individual LEDs. A COB just has two connections for a white or single-color emitter, or it can have four if variable RGB color is the goal.
@kbaum17 $5 or less at this point. And looking closely, it’s probably closer to 80 lumens (or less) for the “flashlight”, and maybe 90 for the COB light.
There’s a whole lotta “or less” about this thing IMO.
@kbaum17, I don’t mind the add ons,…but the 2" ruler, I can really do without! About the only thing I can freakin measure with that is my huge ding dong!
@1DisabledWarVet And it looks like it’s actually 20mm, not two inches. Good enough to measure the backbone of a politician presented with the opportunity to accept a bribe to vote against his constituents’ interests, but not a heck of a lot else.
One place says it has a 2" ruler, another says it has a 2mm ruler (which would be really pointless), and the photo appears to show a 20mm ruler - which is close to pointless. Given the other sterling qualities on display in this finely crafted high-quality tool, I think I’m not terribly worried about what the ruler does or doesn’t do.
QVC had a better one from the same supplier, and it was crap too.
@ashemo There can be levels of crappiness; “better” does not automatically mean “good”. In that case, “better” just means “less shitty than the other one, but still bad.”
@hchavers Sometimes a unitasker is a good thing. Would you really want a combination barbecue grill and tactical nuke? On second thought, don’t answer that.
@hchavers This is the opposite of “buy once, cry once”. Buy this to cry everytime it has to be used. For too many function tools, stick to the “buy once, cry once” brands: Leatherman, Victorinox, and Gerber.
Is this the same Q who thought Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring just down the road in a pizza shop? And who launched an attack on the Capitol? If so, I think these things won’t work no matter how many AAA batteries ya got.
@gertiestn, I sure wish you hadn’t brought up ‘Q’!! I just a bit earlier got some Q Grips online & thought I got a deal; a 2 for 1 Special at $39.95 + $4.99 shp + tax = $48.75, which I said “OK, I need these ear cleaning kits”, But [here’s the regretful part] I was fn asked if I wanted Express Shpmt for $9.99. I hit No, but when I got the receipt, it showed that they charges me the fn $9.99 anyway!! I did pay with PayPal, so I hope they can help me out!! Sorry, for the long drawn out reply, but I had to unload my anger,…My Bad!!
@Barc777 Isn’t it the screws that are slotted, not the driver?
Hmm. It’s hard to find a proper consensus on this one. However, there is a sentence in the Wikipedia article which says:
The tool used to drive a slotted screw head is called a standard, common blade, flat-blade, slot-head, straight, flat, flat-tip, or “flat-head” screwdriver.
It then points out that “flat-head” is a poor term, because it could refer to a screw with a flat head (regardless of drive type) for countersinking, and it implies the driver has a “head” and so forth.
I grew up calling them “flat head” screwdrivers, but now (as of 10 minutes ago) I’ve lost all preference and don’t know what to call them anymore. Maybe I’ll go with “flat-blade” to avoid standing out too much from those around me, while still using a more accurate term.
@Barc777@xobzoo
I generally preference “slotted” with several colorful adjectives when referring to fasteners that are supposedly removable with such an implement Given the design of the one provided with this “multi-tool”, I would probably rather use a hammer and chisel. At least that would give me the opportunity to pound on something enthusiastically while being more than just annoyed at its intransigence.
@Barc777 Idk “slotted” sounds like we’re screwdriver shaming. It’s always been a flathead to me. That’s the way my daddy taught me, and my daddy’s daddy, and so on, and so on. You probably call a water fountain a bubbler too. Pssh.
@Barc777@xobzoo, before I grew tired, I mean retired [ now, that’s a silly term, like refried beans], but I digress,…I was an auto paint & body man. I called my regular screwdriver just screwdriver & the other one a Phillip!!; we didn’t have torx, or what fn ever!! & we wore before masks were so uncool!!
@obxer
Alternately, instead of putting a small LED at the tool end, to illuminate the fastener or other thing that you need to work on, they placed it where it might shine directly in your eyes instead. That’s MBA-level engineering if I ever saw any!
@obxer But we can buy two, so you can illuminate whatever it is you need to use the tool ends on. Instead of maybe a package deal with those trippy rave gloves and a multi-tool.
Am I missing something, or is there a second knife blade that’s so useless that they don’t even mention it? In the second photo, the top blade on each side looks like a knife. On the left, there’s a Phillips at the bottom, a middle blade that’s the can opener, bottle opener, and (very small) flat-blade screwdriver (at the tip), and a knifey-looking thing at the top. The other side has the scissors, the “ruler”, and another knife blade. And where’s the supposed 100-decibel alarm, anyway? Did they make all of the battery-powered stuff work off the same pushbutton switch so that you have to cycle through the screamy thing after the two lights?
@werehatrack
OFFS. The red flashy light only works WITH THE FECKING SCREAMY THING. The one function that I might have bought this for, to provide a stick-on-the-roof red flasher for a roadside stop (maybe to change a tire) is tied to something I am NOT going to put up with. (Not that I’d have willingly paid this much for that unitask, but…)
OBTW, yes, it has two cutting-implement blades; the knife is on the right in the photo, and the one on the left is “serrated”; i.e., a crappy saw.
Oh, and they seem to think that the ruler blade is a screwdriver, but the end is way too rounded to be functional for that. (And I’ve seen that triple-function openers-and-flat-screwdriver-tip blade correctly described in loads of other dumpster-level multitools.)
I can’t imagine this thing wouldn’t break (snapped blade…cracked plastic) if you applied more than moderate force to utilize any of the “tools”. I keep an original Leatherman and good rechargeable flashlight in my car. Dependability in an emergency won’t be obtained when you decide to “buy on the cheap”.
@detailer I buy silly gadgets like this at the Harbor Freight dollar days for stocking stuffers to then stuff in the glove box, the trunk, the side pocket, as my backup backup backup. Because I’ve used my good stuff and wandered off into the garage or kitchen with it and failed to put it back (thanks, ADHD). Also note, I said dollar days. I’m taking a pass on this Meh. Sorry.
The QVC video hawking this one is… typical. (They give the brand name as LumiNation.) I don’t think the guy with the facial fuzz knows which end of a screwdriver to beat on. They blather and bubble on for close to ten minutes about it; it’s worth about fifteen seconds at most.
Side note: All the way back to the '90s, way too many cars have been made with aluminum hoods, For Reasons. A magnetic-base work light isn’t exactly useless, but there’s a reason why Harbor Freight now makes a work light that’s on a bar with spring-loaded hooks at each end so that it can span the underside of those hoods and stay put.
@ckcarlton I have just now learned a bit of information about myself that amused me probably more than it should.
Since I had a ruler next to me, I had to measure my social finger from the second knuckle just for giggles…and mine is 2 inches as well.
Now I will forever think of your post if I ever use my finger as a measuring implement. Thanks for the laugh…
@ckcarlton
I’ve always used my index finger, tip to first crease is 1".
AND…
I just learned the middle finger is also called the social finger.
I mean it’s obvious but I’d just never heard that before! So does that make the thumb anti-social
Specs
2-Pack: Q-Beam Lumination 8-in-1 Multi-tool and Flashlight with COB Technology
Condition: New
Model#: MULTICOB
what’s included?
Price Comparison
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Standard: Tuesday, Sep 6.
Enhanced: Wednesday, Aug 31 - Tuesday, Sep 6.
AAA batteries? Dammit
@thechinglish The rest of it is almost equally high-end high-performance kit.
@thechinglish yeah, I don’t mind the 3AAA Btrs, but they ain’t included!
@thechinglish Ditto to the three AAA requirement…
This is really goofy!
@Kyeh, plus, that’s quite a long ass brand name & what is COB Tech anyway¿? [MultiCOB, at that!]
@1DisabledWarVet Chip On Board. That’s tech where the bare LED chip is attached to a heat-sink substrate directly, instead of being encapsulated first. The COB LED may then get a protective and optically useful clear encapsulation applied to the emitting face, or just a thin anti-oxidation coating if that’s all that the application requires. Each COB has multiple actual LEDs in the emitter array; it takes a minimum of three to produce what appears to be white light (red, green and blue LEDs in very close proximity), and some of the COB devices have literally thousands of tiny individual LEDs. A COB just has two connections for a white or single-color emitter, or it can have four if variable RGB color is the goal.
How much light brightness points?
@mexicantacos Well QVC sold this. Both reviews said the light was bright however one had complaints about how flimsy the base thing was.
@mexicantacos, I was hoping for the lumens info too; if they’re like 5-10 Lumens, I’ll be madder than a wet hen for buying them!!
@1DisabledWarVet @mexicantacos Madder than a dimly lit wet hen.
@1DisabledWarVet @mexicantacos @tet3 Madder than a dimwit hen.
@mexicantacos @tet3 & smoking scurb outta CORN COB Pipe!
So buy this and you can have a
nightknifelifelight and go out to drink margaritas?@Kidsandliz, You can also buy a margarita in a bottle & use your nice goofy opener!!
@Kidsandliz Maybe drink margaritas and have a short knife fight?
@Kidsandliz @sligett Well, it is a really short knife.
@sligett That should light up your life.
Am I to understand this has technology to hold my corn?
@Seeds Just the COB.
@Seeds, No, you gots to eat your CORN; the tech only holds your COB!
[like Mr phendrick said!]
How many lumens?
200 lumens, in this form of flashlight (but without the red light or the Swiss-army gadget add-ons) goes for $5 almost anywhere (for 1)
@kbaum17 $5 or less at this point. And looking closely, it’s probably closer to 80 lumens (or less) for the “flashlight”, and maybe 90 for the COB light.
There’s a whole lotta “or less” about this thing IMO.
@kbaum17, I don’t mind the add ons,…but the 2" ruler, I can really do without! About the only thing I can freakin measure with that is my huge ding dong!
@1DisabledWarVet And it looks like it’s actually 20mm, not two inches. Good enough to measure the backbone of a politician presented with the opportunity to accept a bribe to vote against his constituents’ interests, but not a heck of a lot else.
Shame they didn’t hold this to sell in two days for “National Knife Day”, lol
@BethanyAnne
“You call that a knife?”
@BethanyAnne @werehatrack
maybe they will be selling this in 2 days
/giphy now that’s a knife!
@BethanyAnne @werehatrack OK so in the middle of a giphy fail this comes alone… just weird enough to suit meh.
@BethanyAnne @Kidsandliz @werehatrack You call that a knife?
The accompanying poll asked which of the tools you use the most.
To be contrary, I’m asking which you’d use the least?
For me, it’d be the ruler, a whopping 2mm in length.
How big is 2mm?
https://kidsjoybox.com/how-big-is-2-millimeters/
@phendrick, the 1st screen says it’s a 2" ruler, but the specs say 2mm; either way, it’s more useless than the other useless tools!!
One place says it has a 2" ruler, another says it has a 2mm ruler (which would be really pointless), and the photo appears to show a 20mm ruler - which is close to pointless. Given the other sterling qualities on display in this finely crafted high-quality tool, I think I’m not terribly worried about what the ruler does or doesn’t do.
QVC had a better one from the same supplier, and it was crap too.
@werehatrack, just to add another ooint,…the fn knife is likely pointless too!
@werehatrack - If it’s “better,” but still crap, is it really better?
@ashemo There can be levels of crappiness; “better” does not automatically mean “good”. In that case, “better” just means “less shitty than the other one, but still bad.”
It’s sort of like a light-up Swiss Army Knife.
@heartny It’s sorta like a light-up thing that somebody whipped up after a friend described a Swiss Army knife to him while both of them were plotzed.
How many functions become too many functions? A B. does not like a unitasker, but there has to be a limit.
@hchavers Sometimes a unitasker is a good thing. Would you really want a combination barbecue grill and tactical nuke? On second thought, don’t answer that.
@hchavers This is the opposite of “buy once, cry once”. Buy this to cry everytime it has to be used. For too many function tools, stick to the “buy once, cry once” brands: Leatherman, Victorinox, and Gerber.
@werehatrack If it’s a BOGO, hell yeah!
@werehatrack I know some folks who appear to grill with it stuck on ‘nucular’.
Cob Technology - Is that a toilet paper substitute for the rugged?
@bgammill In this case, COB stands for Chip-On-Board, not Cob-On-Butt.
@bgammill, No, you’re thinking of the cornhusk [for Nebr Cornhuskers]
!! 
@bgammill I prefer the three shells method
This is a dollar store item being sold for $8 a piece. Why are people buying this??
@Willijs3 cuz the dollar store didn’t try to convince us it was worth a lot more!
Is this the same Q who thought Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring just down the road in a pizza shop? And who launched an attack on the Capitol? If so, I think these things won’t work no matter how many AAA batteries ya got.
@gertiestn, I sure wish you hadn’t brought up ‘Q’!! I just a bit earlier got some Q Grips online & thought I got a deal; a 2 for 1 Special at $39.95 + $4.99 shp + tax = $48.75, which I said “OK, I need these ear cleaning kits”, But [here’s the regretful part] I was fn asked if I wanted Express Shpmt for $9.99. I hit No, but when I got the receipt, it showed that they charges me the fn $9.99 anyway!! I did pay with PayPal, so I hope they can help me out!! Sorry, for the long drawn out reply, but I had to unload my anger,…My Bad!!
@gertiestn “Q” has been pretty much trashed as a label at this point.
@1DisabledWarVet I can’t hear you ; there’s all this Crap stuck in my ears.
@gertiestn, I think ya mean Wax,… Crap is slang for
!! 
I don’t think you mean “flat head screwdriver”. I think you probably mean “slotted screwdriver”.
@Barc777 Isn’t it the screws that are slotted, not the driver?
Hmm. It’s hard to find a proper consensus on this one. However, there is a sentence in the Wikipedia article which says:
It then points out that “flat-head” is a poor term, because it could refer to a screw with a flat head (regardless of drive type) for countersinking, and it implies the driver has a “head” and so forth.
I grew up calling them “flat head” screwdrivers, but now (as of 10 minutes ago) I’ve lost all preference and don’t know what to call them anymore. Maybe I’ll go with “flat-blade” to avoid standing out too much from those around me, while still using a more accurate term.
@Barc777 @xobzoo
I generally preference “slotted” with several colorful adjectives when referring to fasteners that are supposedly removable with such an implement Given the design of the one provided with this “multi-tool”, I would probably rather use a hammer and chisel. At least that would give me the opportunity to pound on something enthusiastically while being more than just annoyed at its intransigence.
Not awake. “preface”, not “preference”. I blame an excess of blood in the caffeine stream.
@Barc777 Idk “slotted” sounds like we’re screwdriver shaming. It’s always been a flathead to me. That’s the way my daddy taught me, and my daddy’s daddy, and so on, and so on. You probably call a water fountain a bubbler too. Pssh.
@Barc777 @xobzoo, before I grew tired, I mean retired [ now, that’s a silly term, like refried beans], but I digress,…I was an auto paint & body man. I called my regular screwdriver just screwdriver & the other one a Phillip!!; we didn’t have torx, or what fn ever!!
& we wore 
before masks were so uncool!! 
Ok, I’ll stick the light right there on the side of the car so I can see while I unscrew this… um. The screwdriver…
@obxer
Alternately, instead of putting a small LED at the tool end, to illuminate the fastener or other thing that you need to work on, they placed it where it might shine directly in your eyes instead. That’s MBA-level engineering if I ever saw any!
@obxer But we can buy two, so you can illuminate whatever it is you need to use the tool ends on. Instead of maybe a package deal with those trippy rave gloves and a multi-tool.
Am I missing something, or is there a second knife blade that’s so useless that they don’t even mention it? In the second photo, the top blade on each side looks like a knife. On the left, there’s a Phillips at the bottom, a middle blade that’s the can opener, bottle opener, and (very small) flat-blade screwdriver (at the tip), and a knifey-looking thing at the top. The other side has the scissors, the “ruler”, and another knife blade. And where’s the supposed 100-decibel alarm, anyway? Did they make all of the battery-powered stuff work off the same pushbutton switch so that you have to cycle through the screamy thing after the two lights?
@werehatrack
OFFS. The red flashy light only works WITH THE FECKING SCREAMY THING. The one function that I might have bought this for, to provide a stick-on-the-roof red flasher for a roadside stop (maybe to change a tire) is tied to something I am NOT going to put up with. (Not that I’d have willingly paid this much for that unitask, but…)
OBTW, yes, it has two cutting-implement blades; the knife is on the right in the photo, and the one on the left is “serrated”; i.e., a crappy saw.
Oh, and they seem to think that the ruler blade is a screwdriver, but the end is way too rounded to be functional for that. (And I’ve seen that triple-function openers-and-flat-screwdriver-tip blade correctly described in loads of other dumpster-level multitools.)
This is Made Of Fail.
Ah yes, the wrong tool for every occasion.
/giphy preferable-unguarded-potluck
Is that a clip on one side?
I can’t imagine this thing wouldn’t break (snapped blade…cracked plastic) if you applied more than moderate force to utilize any of the “tools”. I keep an original Leatherman and good rechargeable flashlight in my car. Dependability in an emergency won’t be obtained when you decide to “buy on the cheap”.
@detailer I buy silly gadgets like this at the Harbor Freight dollar days for stocking stuffers to then stuff in the glove box, the trunk, the side pocket, as my backup backup backup. Because I’ve used my good stuff and wandered off into the garage or kitchen with it and failed to put it back (thanks, ADHD). Also note, I said dollar days. I’m taking a pass on this Meh. Sorry.
The QVC video hawking this one is… typical. (They give the brand name as LumiNation.) I don’t think the guy with the facial fuzz knows which end of a screwdriver to beat on. They blather and bubble on for close to ten minutes about it; it’s worth about fifteen seconds at most.
Side note: All the way back to the '90s, way too many cars have been made with aluminum hoods, For Reasons. A magnetic-base work light isn’t exactly useless, but there’s a reason why Harbor Freight now makes a work light that’s on a bar with spring-loaded hooks at each end so that it can span the underside of those hoods and stay put.
But can it core a apple?
And because tradition demands that the questions must be asked…
It is Mac-compatible? Does it have Bluetooth? Is there an option for Georgia Red that doesn’t involve bleeding on it?
333 suckers at 12:42 EST. So curious to see how many more fall prey to this one.
The second knuckle on my social finger is my 2 inch ruler.
@ckcarlton I have just now learned a bit of information about myself that amused me probably more than it should.
Since I had a ruler next to me, I had to measure my social finger from the second knuckle just for giggles…and mine is 2 inches as well.
Now I will forever think of your post if I ever use my finger as a measuring implement. Thanks for the laugh…
@k4evryng that’s great. I’m really glad it helped.
@ckcarlton @k4evryng Most useful post in this thread, I’d say!
@ckcarlton
So does that make the thumb anti-social 
I’ve always used my index finger, tip to first crease is 1".
AND…
I just learned the middle finger is also called the social finger.
I mean it’s obvious but I’d just never heard that before!
Wow! To think that Bryson O’Leary had incompressible diaries is incomprehensible to me.