Faster command-activated items?

[Slim Jim]

Are there any widgets (class or racial abilities, feats, gear, whatever) that permit deploying command-activation (whether standard-action or move-action) items faster than normal (and especially if they also enable doing so without having to talk)?

[avr]

A familiar or other pet, hireling etc. perhaps; improved familiars with wands have been a thing for a long time.

Other than that the contingent action spell might work, but I can't think of anything else.

[Lelomenia]

Magi can use certain spell trigger items as part of spell combat given appropriate arcana

[Slim Jim]

The move+talk command-activation for a Folding-enhanced shield is proving irritating in a prospective build....

[avr]

Depending on exactly what you're doing quickdraw shields might work better than folding.

[Slim Jim]

Greedy little piglets are trying to do both.

(Oink.)