Some weeks the EDC gets built around what's practical. This week, it got built around the cartoon you rushed home from school to watch.
Pokémon. Four pieces - official Pikachu dice, a machined Poké Ball keycap, a Lego Ash for the desk, and a leather charm that somehow makes the whole thing office-appropriate - picked because your inner 12-year-old finally has adult money and nobody left to tell him no.
Plus the week's most-clicked EDC and tech deals.
Let's check it out👇
PICKS OF THE WEEK.
⚡ THE POKÉMON EDC
Official Pokémon dice. With Pikachu on them. That's it. That's the write-up.
The real sell is that these are properly made - not cheap plastic novelty dice but actual weighted game pieces that happen to have the most recognisable creature in pop culture stamped on the faces. Carry them. Use them. Pull them out when someone can't make a decision and watch the energy in the room change immediately.
$12 of pure nostalgia. Carry them.
A machined Poké Ball. On your keyboard. Because of course.
S-Craft do precision machined keycaps for people who treat their keyboards like EDC - which is to say, for people reading this newsletter. The Classic Poké Ball is a group buy which means availability is limited and timing matters. If the window is open, you already know what to do.
The trade-off: it's a keycap. It does exactly one thing. It does it perfectly and it looks spectacular doing it.
Lego Pokémon Ash
A Lego minifigure of Ash Ketchum sitting on your desk is not something you thought you needed this week.
You were wrong.
No link because hunting for it is part of the experience. Check eBay, check the Lego marketplace, ask someone younger than you. The right one is out there and when you find it you'll pay slightly more than you planned and feel absolutely fine about it.
👉 You know where to look
A premium leather goods brand doing a Pokémon collab is either exactly right or completely unhinged.
It's exactly right.
Maison de Sabre make properly built leather accessories - the kind with real hardware, real stitching, real materials - and the SABRÉMOJI Pokémon charms carry all of that DNA into something that clips to a bag, a keychain, or anywhere else you want to declare your allegiances. Subtle enough for the office. Recognisable enough for anyone who matters.
DEALS OF THE WEEK.
The single most-clicked thing in SPPLY. history, and it's not close. Six ports, a 2.26" LCD telling you exactly what every device is pulling, and a smart dial so you can babysit the wattage like a control freak. One brick replaces the tangle of chargers currently breeding under your desk. USB-C throughout, obviously - this is not a Lightning household.
You pick it up once and immediately start looking for something to open. A 2.96" Nitro-V blade that takes a proper edge, an Ultem handle that's lighter than it has any right to be, and a flipper action that drops shut with that sound you'll keep doing on purpose. The Elementum was already the gateway knife. The II just sharpened the whole thing up.
Phone, watch and AirPods, all docked, all charging, all from one base. Qi2-certified 15W means the phone snaps on and actually pulls full speed instead of trickling overnight. Magnets used properly - which around here counts as a personality trait. Your nightstand stops looking like a cable graveyard.
Knife, serrated edge, rope cutter, screwdriver, bottle opener and a ruler you'll use once to prove it works. It clips to a belt loop and disappears until the exact moment someone needs a box opened or a beer dealt with.
The honest trade-off: it's a jack of all trades, master of none. The knife won't out-cut your CIVIVI and the screwdriver won't replace a real driver. But it's the thing you'll actually have on you - and the one that's done having on you beats the perfect tool sitting in a drawer.
A machined metal slider with magnetic detents that snap with a weight you can feel through the desk. No app, no battery, no point - which is precisely the point. You'll reach for it during the next meeting that should've been an email and not notice you've been doing it for twenty minutes.
THIS WEEK IN GEAR.
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I rest my case,
EXCESSORIZE ME.