With stabbing deaths hitting a record high of 322 in the UK last year, BBC reports that the first "anti-stab" knife will soon go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen, but be ineffective as a weapon.
Industrial designer John Cornock prototyped over forty different point profiles before he found the best combination of functionality and safety. The design selected has a unique "combination tip" with a blunt "upper protrusion" with a rounded edge which acts as a guard for the sharp point underneath and an undercut that snags on clothes, skin or tissue, making it very unlikely to inflict a fatal wound. "The common kitchen knife has remained unchanged for centuries so now we're hoping to introduce a safer, more intelligent design for the modern home," says Cornock adding that although a knife can never be totally safe, the idea is it can't inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just "grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone."
Dr Mike Beckett, clinical tutor at West Middlesex Hospital, says all products should combine efficiency in their intended purpose with the greatest possible degree of safety. "This is especially true of household products which are freely available to the very young and very old, and used by people who may be clumsy, short tempered, drunk or mentally or physically unwell. Most people fit into one or more of these categories at some time in their lives."
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