Swiss army knife maker innovates to meet global blade restrictions

Ask knitters and crocheters if they fly successfully with their tools. Some do, and get remarkably lethal implements on, benignly wrapped in wool.

As a character in Patrick OBrien's Aubrey/Maturin novels says (roughly paraphrased): "half an inch of cold steel will do, if you know how to use it"

But a blade-less swiss army knife could still be interesting, albiet slightly strange. I use the screwdrivers and bottle opener far more often than the blade on mine.

FFS. This is preposterous. A multi-tool is a beautifully engineered thing. A tool, widely applicable in the everyday. As Bruce Sterling writes in his Last Viridian Note:

“... a multitool IS a set of keys. It's a set of possible creative interventions in your immediate material environment. That is why you want a multitool. They are empowering.”

I carry one everywhere. I used the knife yesterday to open a taped-up cardboard box. In fact, that's one of the most used functions. That and the tweezers and scissors.

How can those blades be "weapons"? They don't lock! They're not designed for stabbing or anything like that, like a hunting knife. You'd be pretty desperate to threaten someone with one. If someone threatened me with a swiss-army knife I'd probably laugh at them.

“Stop the world, I want to get off”

[1] http://www.viridiandesign.org/2008/11/last-viridian-note.htm...

Countries banning a basic tool of civilization. It's a pretty pathetic state of affairs.

My pocketknife gets used literally every day, for one thing or another. Am I supposed to go knap some flint? Or will they outlaw rocks, next?

If they remove even the small edge from pocket "knives" then there is almost no reason to carry it in the pocket... Without small edge you can't even prepare bottle of wine to be opened :>

On the other hand: there are new businesses and new market and a whole plain-old-future just to use all that super steels but old Victorinox is scared out of business ?? Idiotic just like artisanal electrificians cloing businesses just as electric cars start to hit mass market... Some adjusting is needed, that's all !

But some business diversification is obviously good.