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Future Swiss Army Knives Won’t Have Blades, Maker Victorinox Says

A worker sticks a picture of a Swiss army knife on a window of a Victorinox store in Zurich, Switzerland
A worker sticks a picture of a Swiss army knife on a window of a Victorinox store in Zurich, Switzerland Photo: Arnd Wiegmann (Reuters)

The Swiss Army Knife has become such a shorthand for multifunctionality that companies producing does-a-lot-of-stuff wares will often say that their goods are the “Swiss Army Knife” of whatever category they’re a part of. You can use the tool to cut stuff, snip stuff, uncork stuff, file stuff, in some cases download stuff. – Melvin Backman, Quartz Read More