Aihou's portable paper shredder

If you've ever needed any super sensitive documents destroyed, everything is fine and dandy if you're two cubicles down from the office shredder, but things get a bit trickier when on the go. Japanese company Aihou has developed a not-so-complicated approach to shredding documents while out and about -- by connecting 9 pairs of scissor blades to a blaze orange handle, you get a very awkward cutting device that makes dicing up that paperwork quite painless. We've seen miniaturized paper shredders before, but this contraption requires no electricity to make mince meat out of whatever letter, receipt, or list of vault combinations you may have laying around. Unfortunately, it appears that there are no plans for various colored handles, and the only other (legal) use for these would be to give a mean haircut reminiscent of an 80s fashion experiment gone awry. If you've found your way into a double-agent career path and just have to have a handheld way to eliminate that telling paper trail, you can jet on over to Japan and pick these up right now for ¥1,980 (about $17), but you might not be so lucky trying to convince the extra-cautious security guards that you're just wielding a portable office supply on your return.

[Via Road Gladiator]

[g3n3tiX @ Aug 11th 2006 5:49AM]

Useful for destroying my robot emergency override and self-destruct codes, so they can take over the world !

[JB @ Aug 11th 2006 5:56AM]

just think of the coupons you could cut

[iband @ Aug 11th 2006 7:12AM]

...shred paper on the go....and give your self the world's fastest haircut....I may have to sell my Flo-bee!

[Al Chumley @ Aug 11th 2006 7:47AM]

They should add a few blades in between the scissor blades to make it a cross-cut shredder.

[oshean @ Aug 11th 2006 8:32AM]

This will be a nifty addition to my scrapbooking kit! /end sarcasm

[Jerry Zuckerman @ Aug 11th 2006 9:20AM]

It won't be long before someone figures out how to convert electric shavers to portable shredders :-)

[Mom @ Aug 11th 2006 10:52AM]

Don't go running through the house with these in your hand!!!

[BlackSupra @ Aug 11th 2006 11:07AM]

Will they take this away from me if I have it in my carry-on baggage? I wanted to cut up my credit cards on an international flight.

;)

[Aaron @ Aug 11th 2006 11:26AM]

Hahaha, looks like something you'd see on Photoshop Phriday over at Something Awful.

[hlc @ Aug 11th 2006 1:03PM]

Fewer blades but with different color handles...

http://ar-nest.ns-st.jp/layout/shopping/detail.do?p=186017

[bliss @ Aug 11th 2006 7:17PM]

ahahaha... flobee...and do you think there's a difference of having an even or odd number of blades?

[Mcgill @ Aug 11th 2008 4:34AM]

I'm loving this multiple-cisor paper shredder tool. It's simple, easy to carry, and of course it would be cheap too.
you can find much bigger ones on http://fellowes-shredder.com

[Paper Shredder @ May 30th 2009 7:02AM]

Wow what a great selection of crafts you can do with paper shreds. I have been researching composting and paper shredding and you have given me more ideas on what to do with those shreds of paper. Thanks.