{"id":38473,"date":"2004-07-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/07\/12\/welcoming-a-new-era-in-swiss-army-knives\/"},"modified":"2004-07-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-12T07:00:00","slug":"welcoming-a-new-era-in-swiss-army-knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040712-00\/?p=38473","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming a new era in Swiss army knives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorinox.com\">Victorinox<\/a>,  the company authorized to make  so-called  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorinoxswissarmy.com\/\">  Swiss Army<\/a> merchandise,  has run into a bit of a problem:  Is there anything else  you could possibly think of putting on a pocketknife  for an outdoorsman?  And even if you did, there&#8217;s  no room for it.  The pocketknife has already reached  the point where it&#8217;s too unwieldy to carry around in  your pocket any more.\n  So they decided to think outside the box.\n  First, they let go of the &#8220;must fit in your pocket&#8221; concept.  Welcome the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swissknifeshop.co.uk\/swisschamp_xxlt.html\">  Victorinox Swiss Champ XXLT<\/a>.  Check out the picture of the knife in its display box.  The knife is as thick as it is long!\n  Second, they let go of the whole  &#8220;things for the outdoorsman&#8221; concept.  Now you can get the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorinox.com\/newsite\/en\/produkte\/produktdetails\/swissmemory\/swissmemory.htm\">  Swiss Army Knife USB Drive<\/a>  and the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victorinox.com\/newsite\/en\/produkte\/produktdetails\/1-7725-T\/1-7725-T.htm\">  Swiss Army Knife CyberTool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Swiss Army Knife.  For the geek in your life.  Embrace it.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorinox, the company authorized to make so-called Swiss Army merchandise, has run into a bit of a problem: Is there anything else you could possibly think of putting on a pocketknife for an outdoorsman? And even if you did, there&#8217;s no room for it. The pocketknife has already reached the point where it&#8217;s too unwieldy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-38473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Victorinox, the company authorized to make so-called Swiss Army merchandise, has run into a bit of a problem: Is there anything else you could possibly think of putting on a pocketknife for an outdoorsman? And even if you did, there&#8217;s no room for it. The pocketknife has already reached the point where it&#8217;s too unwieldy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}