Cyborg Arm Designed Only To Eat Potato Chips

Tom Goldman

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Cyborg Arm Designed Only To Eat Potato Chips


You've might have issues if you need a mechanical arm just to avoid getting your hands greasy while eating chips.

There's a mechanical limb being sold in Japan that couldn't be more uselessly awesome. Takara Tomy's Potato Chip Hand is the perfect gift for anyone that wants to avoid the horror of greasy fingers, but still wants to eat potato chips.

As demonstrated by this noticeably not-Japanese guy on Japanese television, chopsticks are no way to eat chips. No, for a task like that you need something much better: You need the Potato Chip Hand! Does it sound like a simple product? Well think again, because the Potato Chip Hand has patented features that make it better than any cyborg arm you've ever seen before.

It uses the "No Broken Clutch System" (I'm guessing the video's "clunch" means "clutch") that will ensure it'll never break a chip no matter how hard you squeeze the trigger. The "No Touch Table System" keeps the hand from touching whatever slimy or gross table you might be placing it on when not chomping on chips. Takara Tomy has really thought of everything, and it's only around $8.

You know, the Potato Chip Hand seems silly, but I really do hate greasy fingers. If I'm using a keyboard, mouse, or game controller, it's annoying to get Dorito [http://www.amazon.com/Doritos-Tortilla-Cheese-1-75-Ounce-Single/dp/B000R7XBF2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=grocery&qid=1280616314&sr=8-1] cheese crumbs all over them. This might actually be one of the greatest inventions of all time. Too bad I have to go all the way to Japan to get one. If someone's in the neighborhood, pick one up, will you?

Via: io9 [http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2010/07/funny-promotional-video-for-potato-chipeating-gadget.html]


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Aug 25, 2009
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Cyborg means cybernetic organism, this is mechanical.

That little grievance out of the way, is anyone else remembering the extraordinarily surreal Japanese commercial Joey did in Friends? Because the commerical for this is even weirder. What the hell is that badly dubbed American doing there?

Anywho, I don't tend to eat when I game, so I don't need this, but it still looks like it might be handy, for something, maybe...
 

Baldry

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Damn i've always find it hard to use chop sticks to eat crisps, thank God for this new invention now I can eat them without that hassle.
 

duchaked

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lolll "As demonstrated by this noticeably not-Japanese guy on Japanese television"... I just keep a handy napkin/paper towel/hand towel around to wipe my fingers with if I'm eating at the computer
 

Wolfboy0311

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This is the best thing I've ever seen someone come up with! I want one!
And by "No Borken Clunch System", and Clunch should be Crunch?
 

Z of the Na'vi

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Bit of a slow day in the news department, Escapist?

It seems like more of a hassle than a necessity to use that arm, I'd rather just use my own hands.