The 'Potechi Hand': Keeps you from getting your hands dirty while eating potato chips
If you're used to eating potato chips while working on the computer, but are too lazy to wipe off your grease-stained fingers, Takara Tomy's 'Potechi Hand' will put an end to your dilemma.
It has a built-in anti-potato-chip-breakage system.
This plastic hand is especially designed to pick up potato chips. It may look like a toy at first glance, but it's actually a carefully designed gadget. The device has an integrated 'NBCS (No Broken Clutch System)' that allows it to pick up fragile potato chips using just the right amount of pressure. Thanks to this you can pick up large or small potato chips without breaking them.
But the salt on the potato chips also gets all over the 'Potechi Hand'. In order to solve this problem, the Potechi Hand includes an 'FECS (Finger Easy Cleaning System)'. When you turn this feature on, the hand's index finger and thumb move to rub off the salt. According to Takara Tomy's Marketing Director, the movement this produces is fairly realistic. Although, you can just rinse the hand off with a bit of water instead.
A Takara Tomy company survey found that 20% of people in Japan eat potato chips with chopsticks in order to avoid getting their fingers dirty. But some people admit that it's a pain to try to use chopsticks with their non-dominant hand while the dominant hand (right-hand for the right-handed, left for lefties) is occupied.
In any case, at some point or other, almost everyone has been overcome by a terrible sense of laziness that prevented them from wiping their hands clean after eating potato chips. And the idea of using some sort of object to pick up potato chips and keep the salt and grease off our hands inevitably comes to mind. Takara Tomy took that idea seriously and decided to develop it and carry it out.
The Potechi Hand comes in 3 different colors, inspired by different potato chip flavors such as salt (orange), green algae with salt (green) and broth (brown). The hands will be launched on the Japanese market next June.
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It has a built-in anti-potato-chip-breakage system.
