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1 productBrickBrick takes a hands-on approach to screen time: its "physical app blocker" locks chosen apps with a tap, and unlocking requires a rescan of the device. It was started by "two recent college graduates who've grown up with smartphones." The subscription-free Brick app supports up to 10 custom modes on iPhone and Android, while Brick Night, a Bluetooth beacon for the nightstand, blocks apps automatically at bedtime.
1 productJORESTTool brand JOREST sells precision screwdriver sets in sizes from 25-in-1 to 152-in-1, plus watch repair kits, car fuses, contour gauges and a mini electric screwdriver.
1 productChargeasapBack in 2016, Gabby and Vinny kept running into chargers that were "slow, unreliable, or didn't work for all our devices," so the husband-and-wife team built their own. Today Chargeasap, "Australian-designed since 2016" and proudly self-funded, makes GaN chargers like the Zeus 280W, 100W magnetic charging cables, laptop power banks and travel adapters.
1 productNomadNomad traces back to "a single idea — an ultra-portable yet highly functional charging cable." Noah Dentzel and Brian Hahn met in Santa Barbara in 2012 and launched ChargeCard, Nomad's first product, on Kickstarter. Today it makes leather and rugged iPhone cases, Apple Watch and Garmin bands, MagSafe chargers and Find My tracking wallets.
2 productsThe James BrandThe James Brand is an Oceanside, California company, founded in Portland, Oregon in 2012 by designers and adventurers (its design studio is still in Portland), making minimalist everyday-carry knives, multitools and wallets.
1 productBest Made Co.Designer Peter Buchanan-Smith founded Best Made in 2009 with an axe as its first product, and he got the company back in October 2023 to rebuild it. It calls itself "an independent, designer-led product company," making axes and hatchets, kitchen, pocket and fixed-blade knives, home and workshop goods and apparel.
