Name that Ware, February 2026

This month’s Ware is shown below:

Do I sense a theme? Welcome to the tour of the various little gadgets I have littered around my desk for test & measurement!

This one is likely to be guessed pretty quickly as well, but a shout-out to Ole for introducing me to this little gem. It’s pretty impressive the amount of features & diagnostics packed into this tiny package. It’s not the cheapest tool, but a good tool – and I have to say I strongly agree with many of the product designer’s technical and aesthetic choices. The build quality is definitely up there.

I especially appreciate products that don’t default to crappy Philips drive screws – this is probably a battle that I will ultimately lose, but a hill I plan to die on: the world needs to move on and use a better drive type already. Unfortunately, without specific prompting, AIs tend to default to rendering slotted or Philips drive screws…