His creative short game was his all-purpose tool, allowing Woods to save par several times from precarious positions.
Most make sport and high-tech "tactical" knives (partly in pursuit of contracts from the military, which still regards a knife as the soldier's ideal all-purpose tool, and the weapon of last resort).
His grandfather, for example, never hunted for the one tool to serve as an all-purpose tool hub or for a tool that would eliminate the need for other tools.
It was also the most common, most all-purpose tool for nearly a million years — longer than any other tool in history — throughout Africa, the Middle East and much of Europe.
At MIT, the all-purpose tool, called Handy 21, combines a PDA with a camera, wireless network, a microphone, speaker and accelerometer.Meanwhile, the IMEC group has launched its "multi-mode multi-media" (M4) program as a way of delivering any bit of information, anywhere, at anytime.
You can see the direction we are all going," said Long. "Everything is going towards a point where people only have to carry one multifunctioning, multimedia, all-around, all-purpose tool".
Secure.me got its start in Germany back in 2007, building an all-purpose tool called Ruflotse, which lets users to track themselves across the web and in social networks.
With iBeam.it, Wappwolf users now have more of an all-purpose tool for sharing ("beaming") content between Dropbox, Facebook, Instagram, Google Drive, Flickr, Skydrive, Evernote, Picasa, Twitter and more.
