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John Lennon’s Swiss Army Knife
“All you need is love…” is probably one of the most profound and simple messages ever sung, preached or uttered in the history of the world. John Lennon’s message of peace and harmony is needed today more than ever and the designers of this “Swiss Peace Knife” could not agree more. Taking the cutting edge and negative association away from the words “army” and “knife” and replacing it with a message of love and care, designers Qian Jiang, Yiying Wu and Carolina Flores reinterpret this icon of multi-functionality into a handy pocket tool that houses a pill box, bandages, disinfectant spray and whistle. ” koo koo koo joob” guys, nice job!
Designer: Qian Jiang, Yiying Wu & Carolina Flores
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willyolio says
neat idea for the most part… but pill dispenser? if you need medication i’m sure there’s a better container than an all-purpose tool.
a flashlight or something would probably work better in its place.
Wow.... says
Wow… what a piece of crap this is. Band-aids? What for… from cutting yourself removing the blade? lol
ignorance is ignorance, not bliss says
The light idea is good, but it shouldn’t replace the pills case, if anything they should put a LED light strip on the side. As for wow’s comment about the knife being removed, I understand why you may be disgruntled. I got my first knife at the age of six when i was a cub scout (boy scouts for kids), and i’ve carried one ever since. A knife does come in handy but there is also the fact of the many times i’ve cut myself and have needed a band aid. It’s a great invention for you everyday hiker.
cra says
i think those are happy -love type pills dude. ha.
shenanigans61 says
Um…what? Past being supplied to the Swiss Army, I don’t really think the Swiss Army Knife is made to promote or condone war anymore…it’s just kind of…you know, a pocket knife?
I wonder if they have Wenger’s permission to use their logo…?
That said, Victorinox FTW.
Miranda Kali says
Oh dear.
I’m very sad now. (of course, Both Victorinox and Wenger have been making “swiss army knives without knives” for a while. ….but this is just another way to propagate the idea).
Knives are good, people. Along with opposable thumbs and fire, they helped get us where we are today. (’scuse me now, while I go try to figure out how to attach a blade to my iPhone)
Lizard_King says
Why does it seem that there is no all-in one with everything we may need? Howabout a combo of the following:
• Lighter from the Victorinox Campflame or SwissFlame (and make it available in the US)
• Scissors from the Wenger knives. The Victorinox scissors suck.
• L.E.D. Flashlight
• That little semi-useless saw, so I can cut through popsicle sticks or something. Seriously, I would prefer a saw handle for replaceable jigsaw blades. Swiss Army hacksaw anyone?
• File
• 1/4″ bit driver
• LOCKING blade. I know the blades are light duty, but non-locking blades are dangerous.
Maybe I’m asking too much
Seriously, I have a swissflame I brought back from Germany. Very cool.
e.bender says
thats a huge list. if you look at a regular swiss army knife, its probably do-able. lighter on the side ( relocating either the toothpick or tweezer), scissors replace flathead w/o bottle opener (you forgot about the beer utensil man!), L.E.D. opposite of the lighter, a saw arm that has a variety of switchable blades, from wood to metal, file replacing mini knife, 1/4 where corkscrew would be (beer is beter anyways), and a locking NON SERATED (cuz serations suck) blade with an Benchmade style axis lock. Im a hobbyist knife maker, this is do-able.
EB
Andy Suth says
Lizard King:
If SAK had locking blades, British police would put me in jail for 2 years (I kid not!).
Under UK law the Slip Joint on a Swiss Army Knife is the only thing that stops the police state of Gordon Brown Locking up people with pocket knives.
Hence the Leatherman Juice ARE ILLEGAL to carry in the UK, as they can be locked.
The idea is that if it can lock, then it is easier to knife someone without cutting your own fingers.
Quite why a 32 year old professional engineer would want to knife someone is beyond me.
-Andy
金金乐道 says
broke and build up again,nice re-design
phrancis says
Having been through the cub scouts, boy scouts, an undergrad, and master’s of industrial design program with a swiss army knife in my pocket, I have to say it’s the most versatile tool I have ever owned. The swiss army knife was originally issued as a survival tool than a weapon and to equate the words “army” and “knife” with some kinda evil connotation is the most pc load of crap I have ever heard…
lunar says
nice re-design
carry on
GregWC says
Why the rape whistle? Thats not very peaceful.
TH says
It’s for making noise in the anti-war demonstrations. (I hope I’m only joking.)
m0r30rl3ss says
well at least this one gets through the airport.. sadly swiss knives have become socialy obsolete.
ignorance is ignorance, not bliss says
yah and so have shoes with fuses sticking out of the soles, man there went my whole shoe collection. But anyway I’m American and Americans need to suck it up and stop worrying about terrorists all the time, there not gonna follow us home people. This may seem heartless, but people need to suck it up, 9/11 was a huge tragedy i understand, and i would have been full throttle for the war if we went after the people who actually did it. Terrorists live off fear, hence the name terrorists, thus if people would stop looking over there shoulder every five seconds they would lose there power.
phrancis says
If this is some kind of social / political statement then come out and say it, because there are already better designed compact first aid kits and such.
ignorance is ignorance, not bliss says
this is a design/art site people express ideas through art, so of course this is a social/political statement. Kill the sarcasm.
Tao Ma says
i like this design!
yorbs says
The rape whistle is there because anyone caught with this, is ostensibly a rape victim in the making.
“all u need is love is great”, but man has only gotten where he is today by using tools to dominate over the other animals. Try using this to take down a dinosaur. LOL
Tools are tools, they don’t make the violence (but guns do make for a very unfair advantage) it’s the people behind them, and usually the people who are responsible for the most violence never pick up a tool to do it, they “inspire” other people to do the violence.
I bet the vast majority of swiss army knives have not been used in a violent manor, so there kinda preaching up the wrong tree here.
This is beyond stupid!
Any man who would seriously consider buying this should use a traditional swiss army knife to hand over everything that makes him a man to pay for it.. cause thats what your effectively doing to yourself.
Any woman who would seriously consider buying this should be advised to NEVER leave her house under any circumstances, because she obviously has no clue about how dangerous this world is.
Tigers have teeth and claws, humans have tools. We need these to survive in this world, thats reality. Deal with it
Clarify says
now you have forced me to think of 14 ways to kill you with my spoon….
listen, anyone resourceful enough can pretty much kill you with any random object. all Neanderthalic political views aside, this is a nice design and a nice idea… just my two cents, no back to your rapping and killing.
yorbs says
Thats just plain retarded and you completely missed my point!
The point was simply that they had taken a useful, practical product.. that wasn’t originally designed to be a killing machine, and re-designed it to be “more safe” or “better for the environment” type of politically correct BS!
The original swiss army knife is an innocent bystander and their directing their political views in the wrong direction.
A far better example was the ak-47 table lamp by Starck
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home/starcks-ak47-115165.php
But it would have been better to have used a real ak47 and to have ripped out all the insides. (that way you take a real device for killing and turn it into something useful)
I just feel that this design tries to paint the wrong picture of the original swiss army knife. And thats just not fair.
ignorance is ignorance, not bliss says
Your obviously and insecure little man, who needs large trucks and many knives to fell good about themselves. A true man does not need knives to be a man, there a man because they say so and they have the cofidence to do whatever they want when they want because they know its right and noone is going to stand in there way. A few of there real men of that walk this earth was Mohatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. We need tools to survive and its not our tools that have put man at the top of the chain, its the ability to learn from his mistakes. Being a man is more about mental superiority than the tools he used to display that superiority.
rob says
whistle’s are used for things other then rape, lost my hiking group…
my issue is with the rape band aids and the viagra dispenser
Druged out dude says
Do they make one cool things like to put your weed in and your things like a weed lighter and rolling papers and other stuff if so this must be it man they don’t give much room for your stuff I do like the pill box part of this but what about the weed box
Andy Suth says
PILL DISPENSER? WITH NO “VIOLENT SLIP JOINTED BLADE”
….Because the drug sub culture is such a peaceful thing.
Who ever heard of someone using the swiss army knife to hurt someone but the injured person being helped by a peace loving drug dealer?
Crocodilo says
To go along with the rape whistle, might as well put in a condom dispenser, instead of the band-aid gadget. The pill holder should do well for Viagra, indeed…
ignorance is ignorance, not bliss says
man somebody ways whistle and 10 people say rape, get your mind out of the gutter people.
hate sheeple... says
i have a knife because it is hard to cut stuff with my gun…
Das Wulf says
Upon seeing this I thought it was a farce. Yet, now that I see the creators mean for it to be taken seriously, it remains a farce and perhaps more amusing than I found it initially.
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