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We've Been Trimming Our Nails Wrong For More Than 100 Years

By Gerard @presurfer
We've Been Trimming Our Nails Wrong For More Than 100 Yearsimage credit
Trimming your nails sucks, and it's not your digits' fault. Technology is to blame. Nail clippers. Blech. With a one size fits all design, it's impossible to get your whole nail in one clip. And curling over the bathroom bin doesn't make us any more likely to keep the floor clean of our cast offs.
And yet, for more than a century, we've been keeping our nails under control using the same little imperfect machine. How is it that this crummy design won us over?The Presurfer

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