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This thick plastic packaging looks about as hard to crack as the laptop lock it contains. "Wrap rage" is what some consumers suffer when struggling to remove a product from a sealed plastic shell resistant to poking, prying, and tearing. Emergency room doctors report regular visits from people who blame battles with packaging for gashes, amputated fingertips, and severed tendons.

But the days of wrap rage and related wounds may soon end as corporations move away from fused "clamshell" or "oyster" designs toward easier-to-open, more ecologically sustainable forms and materials.

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RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?)
It wouldn't be so bad if there were some standardized way of
opening these dam things. I'd like to have the store open it
before I leave.... (Read the rest)
Posted by: trm1945 Posted on: 04/12/08 You are currently: Logged In | Log out
That's a wrap! Rick_R   | 04/08/08
About high time. kraterz   | 04/08/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) vi0l3t1975@...   | 04/08/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) hgh9mrp@...   | 04/09/08
Mother of all class action lawsuits... ARealist   | 04/09/08
RE: An end to 'wrap rage' bfilipiak@...   | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) BobH2   | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) bigsibling   | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) jgb_z   | 04/09/08
No Linux Rant? done@...   | 04/09/08
Only a reply from a pathetic M$ geek eddzpc@...   | 04/09/08
got it cuba_pete@...   | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) rMatey   | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) sframberger@...   | 04/09/08
Europe knows how dmleske   | 04/09/08
My 'wrap rage' is what to do with all the plastic after it's open. dinosaur_z   | 04/09/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) alaniane@...   | 04/10/08
RE: (Photos: An end to 'wrap rage'?) trm1945   | 04/12/08

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