The MacGyver multitool
By Ryan Block 
posted Jul 18th 2007 9:00AM
posted Jul 18th 2007 9:00AM
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The only tool you need to do everything with...
AND you can remove a SIM card from an IPHONE with it ;)
...even better, I use it to hold serveral pieces of standard paper together.
@Mickey
Yeah, and it's easy to take off that paper stuff, too. None of that staple stuff that makes us bleed :(.
Normally I am very impressed by what Engadget posts on their site. This however does not impress me. Not because it isn't supremely funny, which it is, but because it is very very old. I think this was posted on digg 5 or 6 months ago. I look to Engadget for the latest and greatest, this simply was not. Way off base Engadget.
Not everyone looks at the entire webring of geek websites everyday so even if it is a dupe from another website (even an old dupe) it's new to me and I liked it.
Somebody call the Waaaambulance. Daniel is sad :(
Paper clip = MacGyver tool
Daniel = tool
Daniel is a really old name i heard it when i was about 8 years old it's so uncool, you should really be more up to date.
Wow, I love you guys. You just made my day.
Wow - I read that there was this guy in the Bible whose name is just like yours. I guess your name is vastly more irrelevant than an article that you saw on Digg 5 months ago.
Your level of self-importance requires me to please ask you to keep your genetic material out of the gene-pool by not having children. Ever.
it is a very nice photoshop job
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/22/all-mcgyver-ever-needs
You mean, I can't have one?
old picture is ooooolllllllldddddddd
Unless you're in the 2 major cities of Bolivia, you probably wouldn't want to leave.
anyone else think that the guy from Man Vs. Wild ( bear Grill or something like that) is the modern day mcgyver?
No he is a drama-king Les Stroud is better
Eh. While I give props to him for doing everything he does, he *does* have special forces training and a camera crew that follows him around for moral support. I think Les Stroud from Survivorman would be a better example. While the show differs from Man vs Wild in that Bear tries to get out while Les just stays there and waits for rescue, Les is better example of "regular joe" having to think his way out of a bad situation (he's a frickin' amateur musician). Plus, once he's dropped off it's just him; no camera crew whatsoever.
I have to agree with Adrian on that one. While Bear from Man vs. Wild is alright, the show itself is very scripted and setup. Les Stroud is much better. It just feels more genuine and he seems more like an average guy, not an ex British SAS.
But since Man vs. Wild is more scripted than Survivorman, then I suppose he would be more like MacGyver.
Agree with others...Les Stroud impresses me a lot more then Bear Grylls. "Man vs. Wild" is way scripted. OTOH, they basically just toss Les Stroud and a couple cameras out of a plane/helicopter and leave.
Example: Les Stroud is responsible for his own cameras...he's all alone. Not only does he have to survive, he has to move the cameras around. Bear Grylls has a cameraman...yeah, it may just be one guy, but there's a world of difference being alone vs. being with someone else.
I'm not knocking Bear Grylls personally, just his TV show. The guy has accomplished a lot and obviously has serious skills, I just think his TV show does a poor job of showcasing them and is overly dramatic/staged.
MacGyver, I used to watch and enjoy the show when I was a kid. He would make the craziest things out of a paper clip and duct tape. He'd have made you a Hummer using just a paper clip and a roll of duct tape. But, even then I thought "this is BS, it's impossible, he can't do that." It was the same with the A-Team. The funny thing about the A-Team is that no one ever got killed by the storm of bullets and/or explosions. Sure people got their asses kicked all the time. But, no deaths. Not that I was looking forward to seeing dead people either. But, I enjoyed watching the shows though.
Now talking about far fetched shows, how about Manimal? I think that was the name. The one that the guy would turn into any animal. I can play along and say that he can turn into a panther or any other animal with similar size/weight to a human being. But, then he'd turn into an eagle and just fly away. WTF??? What happens to the rest of skin and body mass. I was about 8-9 years old and wondered how dumb that was. But, the show was entertaining.
animorphs?
No, it was Manimal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal
Corey, I think it was Manimal.
I had to double check.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manimal
Actually the things MacGyver made did have some scientific backing. Don Herbert was a consultant for the show.
err you do notice you're watching TV right?
reminds me of that Simpson Episode where Salma & Petty take MacGyver hostage :D
I meant Patty ;-)
and Selma
*lool* what's wrong with me today....?
The "Don Herbert as MacGyver consultant" mention is interesting and would be cool if true, but I'm pretty sure it's just popular culture mythology and hearsay. Ahhh, good ol' Internet. If someone can provide a reference, however, I'm all ears.
Slow news day, huh?
This is the essentual tool. it is even needed to get the sim card out of an iPhone.
Finally somebody has explained what this has to do with the iPhone!
and a cd out of a cdrom/dvd drive the refuses to open :)
Older then teh Intertubes.
That doesn't even make sense.
They should have a few other pieces to the set. Like a rubber band, a single 4 inch strip of tape, a single stick of chewing gum, 1 match, and a maybe a small piece of string.
Whenever I’m accosted by my arch nemesis Balding Corporate Jerk, I use my paperclip to explode the bike rack behind him.
Combine this with a rubber band and a bar of soap and you are ready to take on Al-Qaeda.
Or just Rosie O'Donnell
Hahaha, Ryan=Baked
Photoshop: http://www.toyarchive.com/MacGyverBrazilFigureMOC1.html
I'm seriously disappointed. I've been looking at getting the Leatherman Charge tti and I thought you were going to show me some amazing new versatile multitool. Instead I get some hackneyed photoshop. You've broken my heart Engadget, I hope you're proud of yourself.
SOG EOD Powerlock. Beats leatherman.
As far as the MacGyver tool? I can't tell you howmany different uses for it I have personally found, Most of them inspired by his greatness whilst watching him as a child.
I honestly thought I had seen this first on engadget.
It's a fake people, and not a very good one. I do photo retouching and when I pulled this into photoshop I cranked up the levels on it and found that the English typeface in the lower right hand corner did not pixelate like the rest of the image. There are also red fill spots in the contained negative space of those letters. The bubble packaging is identical to the action figure released in Brasil and it common sense dictates that they did not release an English version. The paperclip was also shot under different light.
If you have to bring it into Photoshop to tell it's a fake, then it's good enough.
Holy Crap Joe Smith, are you ever smart! I for one would never ever figured out that it was a JOKE. thaks for sharing your profound expertise in determining photo fakes with the rest of the world.
Whadda Maroon!
Oh man and I just ordered a case of these for my office. -DOH!
Nothing like when someone doesn't get it and then tries to explain it.
Surely just looking at the paper clip is enough to tell it's PS'd to be a joke.
That is if common sense doesn't slap you in the face right from the start. Paperclip = multipurpose survival tool? Undo your top button, relax a bit and have some fun, hmmm?
The damned thing's inside a blister pack! I don't think there's a tool out there that can get it out of the packaging.
lol :) but atleast its a blister pack with cardboard/paper backing (if it were real) wonder what you would have to pay for this? Being as that a box of paper clips can't be too expensive
The original swiss army tool.
Ok I have to chime in on the Les Stroud Vs. Bear Grylls debate.. Bear is British and quirky. Les is a chilled out Canadian. Les wins.
Now if we can get the chewed piece of gum, we’ll have the complete set -G. L.
I for one welcome our paperclip-wielding overlords...
nor why one would want to use a paper clip to do so
just thinking about that hurts
I want one of this!:D
Who created this? The norwegians (look it up...=)
canadians just sit there and look cute... brits at least will help and take a stand. I'll stick with Baer.
and not to mention, minutes of fun for kids!
First time I met my wife, she fixed our beer fridge with a paper clip and saved our week down the beach.
Friends and I called her MacGuyver to this day.
No credits for this picture? -> http://biboz.net/336-kit-de-macgyver/ (october 2006)