{"id":209659,"date":"2010-01-21T14:10:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5453940"},"modified":"2010-01-21T14:10:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:10:28","slug":"potato-chip-hand-solves-the-chipkeyboard-problem-the-japanese-way-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/209659","title":{"rendered":"Potato Chip Hand Solves the Chip\/Keyboard Problem the Japanese Way [Japan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/potato_hand_3-620x465.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/01\/500x_potato_hand_3-620x465.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>The age old <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/218797\/question-how-to-eat-potato-chips-at-a-keyboard\">conundrum<\/a> of how to eat chips at a keyboard without making a giant mess has finally been solved. So how do you keep your hands clean? By using another hand. A <i>robotic<\/i> hand.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" class=\"left gawkerVideo embeddedVideo videoObject_0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wI9OzHQBqpk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;fmt=22\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed name=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wI9OzHQBqpk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;fmt=22\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" class=\"left gawkerVideo\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As this lady demonstrates, you push the button on the shaft to clamp the hand around the chip, which you then shove in the direction of your face. It&#8217;s soft enough to not completely crush through the chip&mdash;which is bad&mdash;but still stable enough to carry it without dropping. You might say that there was too much thought and engineering effort going into a problem that nobody needed solving, but you&#8217;d be wrong. Very wrong. 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