Martor Smartcut 110100 – Product Review

This is a cutter of the 110000 range. Designed to cut packaging and wraps, with non-replaceable blade and sealed handle for extra safety, i.e. no risk of loss of internal parts, which is particularly important in the food processing industry.

This cutter can be safely pocketed and features the time-tested and established MARTOR SAFETY Technology in the form of automatic blade retraction. No need to think about retracting the blade. Let go off the slider when making the cut and when cutter is lifted the blade automatically retracts back into the handle.

This is probably the safest, as are all of Martor products, safety box cutter that I have ever encountered. Made in Solingen, Germany, blade and all, Martor safety knives and cutters are quality tools.

Pros:
The blade retract automatically, as for all of these kind of cutters from Martor.
Light but of high-impact plastic
Good design
Equally suited for right- and left-handers

Cons:
With the exception of the fact that the blades cannot be changed making this therefore a throw-away tool (but then there is a purpose in this too), there are no cons that I can find.

© Michael Smith (Veshengro), March 2008

Your Laptop and Your Health - Product Review on LapGardTM

We hear a great deal at times about the possible dangers from the heat and now also the WiFi radiation from using a laptop, well, on the lap. While there is nothing proven as yet to whether or not and it all may be false alarms and scare stories even, with the exception of the heat and burn issue, who is willing to take the chance.

I do know that one or the other reader is going to, yet again, tell me that I do not write review but ads when I do reviews, may I stress again that there is more than one way in which to write a review and I have been writing reviews for rather a long time by now.

So, back to the situation in hand.

I personally stopped using my old Toshiba Satellite laptop on my lap not because of heath fears, to start with, and I am too old by now to worry about fertility anyways, but simply because even through jeans it was very hot prior to, eventually, the fan kicking in. If I want my legs burnt from a laptop I might put one on my lap but only then. Otherwise I rather won't do that. Therefore, if and when I needed to use mine on my lap and had no other choice I had devised my own “lap desk” from light metal. This is and was not an ideal solution but it kept the heat off.

As one computer geek in a store told me once: those things are not really meant to sit directly on your lap. Aside from the heat that they radiate and that might burn you the lack of air circulation while they rest on your lap also can cause damage to the PC itself. Cheers, pal!

Now Amps International Ltd. has come up with what, to me, appears to be the perfect solution: namely the LapGardTM.

LapGardTM is a laptop protection heat absorber, which will protect the user from potentially dangerous heat penetration. It has a multi-core construction which prevents electro-magnetic aves and radiation, potential causes of low male fertility, amongst other health hazards, coming into contact with the user's body.

LapGardTM is simple to use and is constructed from a unique combination of materials. It comes in an attractive leather-look finish and has an adjustable spacer bar with Velcro tabs that holds the laptop to sit comfortably and securely while at the same time allowing for proper ventilation of the laptop at all times.

LapGardTM is lightweight and very convenient to carry, as it easily fits into a laptop case.

LapGard comes in four sizes to suit 12” - 15.5” laptops and is priced from £19.99 and available from www.laptopsafety.co.uk.

I was given a review sample on the Health & Safety 08 Exhibition, which was held from February 26-27, 2008 at Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, which fits the old Toshiba of mine lovely and I can but endorse everything that is said by the company as to this little device. What I would just like to add is that, in my view, it should come as standard equipment with every laptop case.

© Michael Smith (Veshengro), March 2008

Safe Can - Product Review

Store your valuables where thieves won't find them.

SafeCan is a ground-breaking product which makes it easy for people to hide their valuables in ‘dummies’ of everyday objects, like cans of beans or books. Branded products from household names, like Heinz or Collins Dictionaries, mean the dummy containers can be concealed with other household objects for maximum safety. The brands are fully licensed from their parent companies, so they look exactly the same! In other words, a very subtle low cost safe.

SafeCan is a exciting product that could help people protect their property, whether in their homes, their garage, in a caravan or a boat.

Recognised by Police Forces, Neighbourhood Watch Groups and Insurance Companies Worldwide as an excellent deterrent to theft. The SafeCan is the ideal place to hide money and jewellery.

Upon attending DIY & Garden and Totally Tools every visitor, including us media guys, were handed a goody bag at the door sponsored by Henkel which had a Can Safe in the form of a spray can of a Henkel product in it.

This is, I most say, the first time that I had a chance to get a closer look at one of those little low cost safe solutions and I can only say, “ingenious”.

More information on SafeCan, now part of the Sterling range of security solutions, can be found at www.sterlinglocks.com.