The Swiss Army Knife of USB Drives

Mudzy writes "The Tech Zone reviews what has to be the coolest Swiss Army Knife ever made. The Swissmemory USB Victorinox is the first knife to be equipped with a USB flash drive. " Besides 64 or 128mb of data, it includes such useful items as a ballpoint pen, red light, scissors, nail file, and not surprisingly, a knife.

Comments

Why?

[wackysootroom]

Swiss army knives traditionally used out in the wild on camouts, hiking, fishing trips, etc.

The concept of this gadget is cool, but could someone enlighten me to the uses of a USB flash drive out in the wild?

It's slightly lacking

[jandrese]

The biggest problem I have with this knife is that it doesn't have a Phillips head screwdriver. The screwdriver is by far the most common tool I use on my knife, although I would absolutely love to have a USB stick built in (I rarely remember to carry my USB key when I absolutely need it, but I always have my knife). The light would be great except that it is the "press and hold" kind, not the toggle switch kind, which makes it far less useful as it only lets you use one hand if you need light.

All I ask for in a knife is:

1. A blade
2. A large flathead screwdriver/bottle opener
3. Small flathead screwdriver/can opener
4. Philips head screwdriver
5. 256M+ USB stick
6. Built in Photon III, preferably in White
7. Scissors

That's all I want. Is it really too much to ask for?

Re:wtf?

[Dracolytch]

What's even more bizzare is that the article doesn't link to the ThinkGeek page for this. Instead, they link to a competitor, thetechzone.com.

Congratulations slashdot! you've just shot your sister-company in the foot!

~D

Re:Not too popular here..

[Jaywalk]

In USA are you allowed to keep the knife in your 'checked in' baggage?

Yeah, but practically nothing for carry-on. There's even some stuff that's theoretically allowed (like small blunt scissors or nail clippers without a nail file) that poorly trained security folk confiscate.

It looks like the USB Knife is on the same pattern of the executive line, so that's just about a two-inch blade, but most Swiss Army knives have bigger blades; around three or four inches. My old favorite was the Tinker because it had a phillips head screwdriver. (Honestly, did anybody ever use that stupid corkscrew?) But I've since replaced it with a Leatherman because of the pliers. Unfortunately, it looks like the only part of the Leatherman line that has blades of two inches or less are the Squirt, Micra and Mini-tool.

My take on the Victorinox

[dze]

I bought one of these (the 64 MB regular version) a couple of weeks ago from ThinkGeek. Ordering time was pretty fast, three days I think (and I live in Canada). One minor caveat about the shape of it, is that it was definitely a bit thicker than expected (about 1.9 cm thick), and possibly a bit shorter (6 cm length). It's not a real problem, just know what you are getting. Consequently, the knife blade is fairly small.

Overall the gadget is great, has been very useful. Oddly I think the ballpoint pen has gotten a fair amount of the use, but it's great having some portable storage. I was on vacation last week and it was perfect for use at Internet cafes.

I tried to get Firefox installed on it however it's not fully working yet, but I'm sure that's my fault.