Mini Flex Companion / Roxon
The Mini Flex Companion rethinks the multi-tool around modularity. It ships pre-loaded with seven implements, a knife, scissors, a bottle and can opener, a box cutter, a Philips screwdriver, tweezers and a toothpick, but the design's real premise is that four of the implement slots are swappable: lift out the spindle with the supplied Allen key and any tool can be exchanged for another from Roxon's catalogue. The frame also carries a fixed bit adapter with a magnetic Philips bit. At 3.1 inches closed and 77 grams it sits in the same compact, plier-less class as a small Swiss Army knife, but where that tool is fixed at the factory, this one adapts to what its owner actually reaches for.
Design intent
- +The swappable slots let an owner strip out tools they never touch and add task-specific ones, from hex wrenches to a fish-hook remover, drawn from a catalogue of more than thirty implements shared across the Flex system.
- +Holding to a compact, sub-80-gram, plier-less format means the modular idea arrives without the bulk penalty that usually comes with added versatility.
Trade-offs
- -The swap mechanism is extra hardware: more parts than a fixed Swiss Army knife, an Allen key to keep track of, and loose implements that can be mislaid during a reconfiguration.
- -With no pliers, the tool has a ceiling on gripping and clamping work; it is honest about that, but anyone moving from a plier-based tool will feel the gap.
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View allThe Mini Flex Companion rethinks the multi-tool around modularity. It ships pre-loaded with seven implements, a knife, scissors, a bottle and can opener, a box cutter, a Philips screwdriver, tweezers and a toothpick, but the design's real premise is that four of the implement slots are swappable: lift out the spindle with the supplied Allen key and any tool can be exchanged for another from Roxon's catalogue. The frame also carries a fixed bit adapter with a magnetic Philips bit. At 3.1 inches closed and 77 grams it sits in the same compact, plier-less class as a small Swiss Army knife, but where that tool is fixed at the factory, this one adapts to what its owner actually reaches for.
Design intent
- +The swappable slots let an owner strip out tools they never touch and add task-specific ones, from hex wrenches to a fish-hook remover, drawn from a catalogue of more than thirty implements shared across the Flex system.
- +Holding to a compact, sub-80-gram, plier-less format means the modular idea arrives without the bulk penalty that usually comes with added versatility.
Trade-offs
- -The swap mechanism is extra hardware: more parts than a fixed Swiss Army knife, an Allen key to keep track of, and loose implements that can be mislaid during a reconfiguration.
- -With no pliers, the tool has a ceiling on gripping and clamping work; it is honest about that, but anyone moving from a plier-based tool will feel the gap.
