Switchblade bottle opener

BB pals Greg Long and Chris Edmundson designed this clever SwitchPop Bottle Opener. This would be infinitely more useful to me than the common variety switchblade comb. Because I'm bald. Even still… very clever, Chris and Greg! Get one for $20 from GAMA-GO. Switch Pop Bottle Opener

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Boy, boy crazy boy get cool boy!
wheels17

But is it legal in New York??? Or in Maine if you have 2 arms??
hbgvfcdxsz hbgvfcdxsz

Do you really want to be the person who owns a switchblade bottle opener?
Do you subscribe to the theory that the Earth has finite resources?
Good to see these resources are being put to good use.
- http://twitter.com/twichy twichy
  
  Do you subscribe to the theory that the internet has finite pixels? Good to see those pixels are being put to good use.
  
  Also +1 for opening up a Newcastle!
  - Beanolini
    
    opening up a Newcastle!
    
    Next time you order one, put on your best Geordie accent, and ask for a ‘bottle of dog’.
  - hbgvfcdxsz hbgvfcdxsz
    
    We’ll die under a tide of novelty items. You didn’t answer my question anyway.
    This switchblade bottle opener is AWESOME!! I LOVE IT!! I WILL TAKE IT TO EVERY PARTY I EVER ATTEND!! Can you imagine..? taking this out with you to every gathering/party/social event you go to for the next 5-7 years (it will only last 2-3 years at most) I’m sure it will be ‘amazing’ to your core group of friends the 1st time you take it out to the ‘street’. The 2nd time it will be “meh’ the 3rd time “This guy is a tool”. I’m sure you pretend that you don’t care what other people think ~ this is probably why you’re single. Forever alone…….
    - http://twitter.com/twichy twichy
      
      Wasting pixels!
- TooGoodToCheck
  
  oh huzzah! concern trolling! I was worried we wouldn’t have any of that.
  
  Stay away from the skymall catalog – your head will explode
- i_prefer_yeti
  
  Don’t look at our Karate Chopper Lettuce Knife. That will flip your lid.
http://twitter.com/kevinkadow Kevin Kadow

No problem in New Hampshire.

This would make more sense if the handle were half-sized, like the mini switchblades that are legal in California. As it is, it would be more functional without the switchblade action, if the handle just ended with a static bottle opener.
Finnagain

I’m glad he demo’d the use of the item. I would have been reading the owner’s manual.
ackpht

I’m trying to think when was the last time I encountered a glass bottle with a crimp-on cap. Been a while.
- http://www.ikaink.net Itsumishi
  
  You need to drink better beer.
solstice2005

BoinBoing! the quest toward irrelevance… Or the way to make mutants extincts before they rise…
tpe123

I used to have a butterfly ~~knife~~ bottle opener that was kind of goofy fun.
Bill Reals

I think it’s far more convenient just to learn how to open a bottle with almost anything from a lighter to another bottle. :)
voiceinthedistance

The TSA is not amused.
pdffs

A cigarette lighter does an excellent job of opening bottles, and has the added feature of being able to set things on fire.
- http://www.zhrodague.net/ Drew from Zhrodague
  
  Indeed, pdffs, I also use a Bic lighter to open a bottle. I have noticed, however, that my digits are getting old, and less tolerant of such abuse, but mostly from pinching the wheel of the Subaru during the daily commute.
  
  Also, ackpht, the best beers have both a cork and a crimped cap.
  - dragonfrog
    
    A cork and a crimped cap? Interesting. My favourite brewery uses a narrower version of the champagne cork with the wire cage contraption to hold it on.
    
    They’ve also succumbed to market pressure and started producing standard-size bottles in six-packs with a standard crimped-on cap. But what’s the point? I demand a 750 mL bottle – it’s inconveniently large for one person, but a little too small for sharing, forcing you to buy a couple of bottles…
Alvis

This is an awesome idea, and I don’t mean any disrespect to the BB pal designers, but I’m worried about how well it’s made.

The handle looks almost exactly like the switchblade comb I had as a kid some 20 years ago, and I remember it being of quite questionable build quality. It seemed to be all shaped pieces of flat steel, rather than having any solid metal elements. It never did break, but I always felt the safety lock was especially flimsy.

Maybe this is something different altogether – but it looks a lot like that exact cheap switchblade comb, but if you ripped-out the comb and strapped-in a bottle opener. And the way it doesn’t lock closed on the first attempt in the video? Like I said, I’m worried.
- justdemigod
  
  you’re brilliantly critiquing something you never seen in person or held in your hand? ha ha ha ha ha. your sense of design must be on the highest level of snobbery.
Diego Fernetti

That would get you mightly embarrased at a gang fight.
retepslluerb

In which way is this “clever”? This is actually a language question. I’d understand “cute”, ”funny”, perhaps even “whimsical”, but not clever.