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The Verge’s 2024 holiday gift guide for tinkerers

We found tons of cool tools you can gift to crafty beloveds.

MakerHawk offers comprehensive insight into metrics like voltage, current, and power capacity, allowing you to suss out whether that impossibly cheap cable and adapter combo you found on eBay can actually charge your devices as fast as advertised. The handy, cylindrical tool comes with 25 steel bits and offers three torque settings, providing you with everything you need to tackle Ikea furniture, holiday decor, and other medium-sized projects around the house. The Ayn Odin2 Mini is an Android 13-based gaming handheld that cribs the PlayStation Vita’s design, complete with Hall effect analog sticks, triggers, bumpers, face buttons, and a D-pad.

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