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A Swiss Army penknife? How Zeitgeisty can that be? After all, they're more easily associated with Boy Scouts trimming fire wood than the vagaries of the information age.

Titter ye not. Yes, it comes complete with all the tools you'd expect: knife, nail-file, screwdriver, scissors. It also has an LED spotlight and a ballpoint pen.

But the Boy Scout's best friend has now joined the information age - the latest versions come complete with a 64 megabyte USB memory stick, that dinky little device that has superseded floppy discs and CD-Roms in the evolutionary chain. Use it to ...


    
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