Glowbar: it’s a glow-in-the-dark crowbar
Dan Seitz 
We know, it sounds like a gay bar, but in actual fact, it is a tool, made of steel, designed to pry things open, that glows in the dark.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ll give you a second to say “In my pants” and get it out of your system.
But, believe it or not, this thing actually exists, and some of the money it raises goes to a good cause. We’re just not sure who needs one.
The Glowbar is your basic carbon steel crowbar with a silicate aluminum oxide coating, which is pretty standard for steel tools (it protects against rust), but this has been treated to, uh, glow in the dark.
Honestly, even the people who make this don’t really seem to be sure who needs it: they make a bunch of zombie and Half-Life jokes before insisting that all you need to know is that it’s a crowbar that glows in the dark.
On the bright side (pun intended), they do contribute 2% of their profits to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, better known as the EFF, and even better known as the ACLU of the Internet. Basically, every time some fundamentalist decides he can sue people for hurting his feelings, or a government official decides to wreck the Internet to chase after some non-existent pirates, they’re there to stand up for us.
So we guess that’s a good enough reason for the Glowbar to exist. That and the looks it’ll get you on the construction site.
Glowbar Inc. [Glowbar]
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