It's all about the leatherman knife launcher system for one handed opening (44 seconds in). YouTube - Leatherman e301
Liner locks are a bit fail in my view, and the assisted opening looks a bit fiddly and gimmicky to me. I can open my Benchmades one-handed without having to look at them, and they just have a stud through the blade - you pretty rapidly just get it into physical memory if you use them enough.
(I'd like to clarify that "use them enough" here means such things as cutting several kilometres of coaxial cable into short lengths for a TV studio build, unbaling straw when I was an agricultural labourer, unboxing many, many servers etc)
Liner locks are a bit fail in my view, and the assisted opening looks a bit fiddly and gimmicky to me. I can open my Benchmades one-handed without having to look at them, and they just have a stud through the blade - you pretty rapidly just get it into physical memory if you use them enough.
(I'd like to clarify that "use them enough" here means such things as cutting several kilometres of coaxial cable into short lengths for a TV studio build, unbaling straw when I was an agricultural labourer, unboxing many, many servers etc)