Ever come back home with a new CD or DVD and then end up destroying the jewel case and/or disc in the process of opening it? It’s happened to me quite a bit, and now not just with music and movies, but it seems lately anything you buy in the store comes in a thick plastic casing that seems to have no normal method of opening beside cutting with a knife or sissors.

It’s only a matter of time until someone hurts him or herself, and such has happened.

The term is Wrap Rage and in England it is become the bane of the elderly and people are actually becoming injured in attempts to get at their purchase. Most likely Americans are getting hurt as well, being our large portion of aging baby boomers and our generally toasted youngsters and their love for gadgets and media.

Who can save us from this packaging nightmare The International Ergonomics Association (testing the new emotes )

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