Move over hoverboard...

...and new-look Swiss Army Knife come on down!!

I've come up with the idea of a new Swiss Army Knife which has developed beyond it's original specifications. Take the current development of the Swiss Army Knife from humble beginnings around 1891, to the multi-tooled design which can boast up to 100 different blades, tools and gadgets. There has even been a USB Swiss Army Knife released just recently, with the original ability to connect to the users' computer.

- USB Swiss Army Knife -

The general idea I'm thinking of is that objects and are fast evolving into multimedia devises, people are less likely now to buy mechanical gadgets and more likely to buy iPods, mobile phones, games consoles and all the accessories, gadgets and gizmos that come with them. The general trend is to lean towards multimedia.

Just take Japan as an example, long have we known about some of their 'inventive' inventions!!. They're gadget crazy over there, making all kinds of tools and gizmos to make everyday life easier, although more often than not the inventions just look like hard work in themselves! Things like the 'Chopstick fan', 'Umbrella tube', 'Subway chin rest' and 'Eye-drop funnels' to name but a few.

My idea is to design a multimedia Swiss Army Knife. An exaggerated example of a currently available device which has gone far and beyond it's original or even current practicality. The fact that the Swiss Army Knife was first designed with a blade, can opener and a screwdriver and now can possess upto 100 different gadgets and tools, shows it's development and need to change with the times. It's always updating and bringing out new models and with the USB devise it has already entered into the mulitmedia age.

I want to take this further though and develop a Swiss Army Knife that goes far beyond any of this. A complete multimedia device which has none of the Swiss Army Knife's current tools. The idea is that in the future we will be so obsessed with designing devices that give everything the user will need, we will forget about where our ideas and even the original product comes from. A Swiss Army Knife, which has no mechanical tools or even a knife. Something that has become so wrapped up in it's own self development and modernisation that it leaves behind all sense of it's literal description...Multimedia Swiss Army Knife.