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You wanna know why opening a package is so thrilling? Because it’s a bloody epic poem just to get the box open. By the time you’re in, you’d be excited by packing peanuts and nothing else.
…Which is why, if it works as billed, this self-destructing, rip-cord packing tape is one product that absolutely should exist.
The concept is simple: a narrow string runs down the length of the tape, which, when pulled, slices right through the seal. Voila! No Stanley knives, no bread knives, no broken nails. I want to live a world where Rip Cord is real.
Sadly (maybe), this obviously ingenious product is still nothing more than a prototype, with no projected plans for production or sale. Yet. [Quirky via OhGizmo]
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A guy i went to school with had a relative that worked with display grade fireworks. He bought some fuse in one day and it looks exactly like this. Sellotape with a thin strip down the middle, only unlike this, when you lit one end, the entire strip vaporises in less than a second… all we saw was this flash shoot out of the study room window
Would make opening parcels more fun
I dont open too much boxes for this to bother me, but I’m sure professinal box openers will be thrilled if this comes into production.
I opened a big box yesterday, that was stapeled together, so much fun to rip open, and there was a bike inside it, a fullly put tohether bike, even the tyres where pumped up
sadley the bike wasnt mine, but a colleges. but it was fun to open. This wouldent work with such a big box as i could see this easily failing to hold the boxes weight with a peice of string and some sellotape (cellotape?).
The problem is that even after the ripcord has been pulled in the picture above, the box isn’t going to open!
True Dat! but it would take less effort and you could rip the rest of the sellotape easy as it would only be two halfs of the sellotape you have to rip, no need for a knife.
Who needs a knife? I use any small, narrow pointy thing, be it the end of a pen or my penis.
Haha, yea but the point is you still need something to open it. But I suppose if your penis is sharp enough, this shant be a problem.
I received a parcel recently which had something like this which if I recall correctly had the cord built into the box rather than the tape.
My only concern is how easy it is for unscrupulous peeps to open in transit.