--- name: "TiMate Verolite" subtitle: "A titanium pen that reconfigures into a repair kit" date: 2026-07-16 link: "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1028779086/verolite-the-modular-titanium-pocket-repair-system-pen" linkText: "kickstarter.com" source: "Gear Patrol" topics: [carry-and-wear, gadgets-and-toys] tags: [edc, pen, kickstarter] description: "A modular titanium EDC pen — currently a Kickstarter campaign — whose magnetically-linked segments split into a 3-mode flashlight, a dual-tip marking tool, and a waterproof magazine for driver bits." --- VeroLite's segments click together magnetically into a pen, but pull them apart and you get a detachable 3-mode flashlight, a marking module with a graphite tip good for miles of writing on one end and a glass-breaking tungsten-carbide tip on the other, and a sealed, waterproof magazine holding three swappable driver bits. A built-in pry bar and a bit-format blade that swaps without exposing your fingers to the edge round it out. It's currently a Kickstarter campaign, with pledges starting at $85.