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OpenX Hand Tool Melts Annoying Plastic Packaging Like Butter

Ed Steele May 5, 2005 Comments Off

OpenX Hand Tool Melts Annoying Plastic Packaging Like Butter
I distinctly remember when hardshell plastic packaging arrived. I was amazed at how well it must thwart shoplifters from stealing, and even more amazed at how much of a problem it now was to get my purchase open. Since that day I have come to hate shoplifters even more for inspiring manufacturers to ship their products in plastic packages of annoyance and pain. Now there is OpenX, a nifty hand tool that slices those pesky plastic shells open like “lobster crackers on lobsters.”
Of course, this now means that the “shoplifter-proof” aspect of hardshell plastic packages has flown out the window – shoplifters could purchase the OpenX as easily as you or I could. (The logical progression – plastic packaging will eventually be replaced with mini-forcefields that only disapear with the right DNA/RFID code sequence.)


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