Biscuit packet opener: an assisstive technology prototype

Some people are a bit clumsy, or can't grip with their fingertips very well.

This make the little pulls-tabs for opening biscuits a waste of time.

A knife could be used, or scissors, but the things that make the pull-tab useless would make stabbing with blades dangerous as well.

This is my idea for a safe tool that will open a packet of biscuits, and catch any loose ones that fall out of the end.

It's a prototype, but I think it has promise.

Step 1: What you need.

Materials:

Thin wire.

A plant pot wider than your biscuits.  Make sure you wash it first!

A nut.

Sticky tape.

Tools:

Something to cut the wire.

Small drill.

Comments

[timatlightbox]

Fantastic idea, so simple, I love it, I hope you have more ideas of such simple and useful philosophy :)

[kelseymh]

Awesome little project! Simple, easy to build, and nicely explained (and how come the British have better vocabulary than Americans, eh?). Lemonie's suggestion of guitar string, or piano wire, would be excellent as a pseudo-serrated cutter.

[Roger-X]

Thankyou.

[Lithium Rain]

Hey, that's clever (does that cookie package say "digestives"? XD ).

[Dr. Pepper]

Omg! That's so funny!

[Kiteman]

It does. It's a kind of biscuit.

[Lithium Rain]

Man, I want a package of Digestives now, just to empty and put on my desk next to the shark-in-a-jar and preserved alligator head.

_{No, really.}

[lemonie]

Guitar-string (metal)
Nice bit of work.

L

[JamesRPatrick]

Or piano wire. Same thing.

[Kiteman]

He was raiding my stocks because it was a sudden inspiration for the Humana contest.

I'll try and acquire an old guitar string from our music teacher...

[JamesRPatrick]

Are these biscuit tubes exclusive to Europe? In America we have tubes that you bang on the counter and the cardboard splits along the spiral.

[mg0930mg]

I was thinking this the entire time.

[Lithium Rain]

LOL! Not that kind of biscuit - he means a cookie. :D

[JamesRPatrick]

Ohhhh...well that makes more sense.

[NachoMahma]

. Great idea and great iBle.

[Nostalgic Guy]

A great idea I just wish I had thought of it first.