Wrap Rage - @#$% Clamshell Retail Packaging!!

You aren't the only one frustrated by packaging! 

Wrap Rage? Ergonomics Could Make That Package Easier To Open

If you've ever felt frustrated after trying to get a new CD out of its plastic wrapper or a child's toy free of its hard plastic display shell, you may be suffering from what the British call "wrap rage" - the annoyance and frustration felt due to hard-to-open packaging. But, says a recent article reported by Newhouse News Service, it's a "condition" that could readily be remedied with help from ergonomics.

Packaging Hell - Time to Rise Up!

THANK YOU to maverick Mark Cuban and C|Net's Blogma for ranting about a topic I've also been on the warpath over for years- product packaging that makes the customer the enemy. We've all experienced it- tough plastic-molded around the product we just bought, the knives, the scissors, the bloody incisions on our fingers. One brand name these are known under in the business is "Thermoform". Thermal molded plastics. I call it "The Polycoffin".

10 Ways to Please Us, the Customers

DEAR electronics makers,

You must be getting pretty excited about the holiday season. No wonder. That's when we, your customers, hand you a huge chunk of your annual income - about $17 billion of our cash.

But what will you give us in return? Yes, of course, the finest gadgets technically possible for the amount we're willing to pay. But what else will you give us? Do you really want to earn our love and loyalty? Do you want us to be back next year?

Seagate Leaves me bloody%u2026

I love seagate products, but what genius designed the packaging for their 6gb Pocket Hard Drive ? THe drive came packaged in one of those impregnable plastic shells (see picture in link above) that makes it look pretty on retail shelves but impossible to open once you buy it.

What is the logic behind making a product impossible to open once you buy it ???????