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Hidden Weapon (Lvl 3+, DSCS): Need an item bonus to initiative? Proficient with light blades or maces?  Just keep one of these guys in your hand when you roll initiative and then drop the sucker when you're done with it to go quickdraw your weapon of choice.  If you do feel like using it, it comes with its own quick draw ability, and once you sheathe it only you can find and draw it, making it a useful and stylish way to go undercover.  Now, you can have that swordcane you always wanted.

Eyes of Charming (Head, Level 6/16/26, MME): Not only do they give you a bonus to your social skills, but these rare glasses come with a daily dominate, which can be almost as good as getting an additional daily power of your own, especially at the heroic tier (at higher tiers, more controllers start getting dominates and you will probably find better headgear).  The attack bonus is fixed to the level of the item, which means it suffers from a weird sort of utility curve where the earlier you get this thing in a tier, the better, though its accuracy drops the later you go.  Still, you can probably find some weak-willed brute you want to take for a joyride, and if you have support for charm powers (Glasya's Charming Words, Staff of Sleep and Charm, Entrancing Mystic, Amulet of Seduction), you can eek some more mileage out of it towards the end of its career, or ramp it up to even higher levels of hilarity if you get the item early enough.

Magic Scabbards (Wondrous, Level 5/15/25, 10, 12, AV & Dragon 381):  Enjoy light or heavy blades and keeping your hands free while you walk, but don't want to spend an action pulling them back out or spend a great deal of money?  Then buy a scabbard, which basically lets you Quick Draw any light or heavy blade you sheathe in it.  The Ruby/Sapphire/Diamond scabbards from the AV grant a not-really-that-important per-encounter power bonus to the damage roll of the next attack you make after drawing the weapon, while the Scabbard of Sacred Might is a level 10 item with an encounter power that converts your damage into radiant damage (perfect for that hero who kind of wants to be in the Radiant Mafia but is apparently too damn cheap to buy a real lightsaber?), and the Diplomat's Scabbard from Dragon 381 provides a bonus to Diplomacy when you're not stabbing people, and has an emergency defensive daily for when someone gets the drop on you.  For those of you who either don't want or can't afford things like Battle Harnesses,  at higher tiers dropping 1000 gp on a Ruby Scabbard is a dirt cheap way of ensuring that your sword will always be close at hand.

Tenebrous Shroud (Neck, Level 13+, Dragon 380): Everyone hates necrotic damage, it's one of the most common forms of monster damage especially among the undead, but if you hate it enough to spend a slot on Armor of Resistance, then consider this item instead.  For your neck slot and only one level more, not only do you get even better necrotic resistance, but you get a daily invisibility escape button when things go south.

Ah, I fondly remember trivializing an early solo fight with those Eyes of Charming. Good times... For me, that is. Probably not the DM.

If you are not a Thri-Kreen, a Spiked Gauntlets of Defense might get around the problem of not having enough hands to carry everything.  My Ranged'lock is going to use a pair as his melee weapon, plus a Wand and a Rod as his implements.  My rules interpretation (or mis-interpretation) may affect viability.