What I wouldn't give to be able to make the original designer of the CD jewel box watch these videos. Buddy, you have any idea what we have to go through to get your stupid shrinkwrapped product open?
These speedy tips come to us by Steven Leckart by way of Cool Tools. Leckart's figured out a quick way to get through the packaging--and that's what we do with CD packaging, we don't appreciate it, we "get through it"--with only one hand. His left, no less.

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Comments
who still buys CDs?
Wait, people still buy CDs??
genius!
And he does it with one hand: it's pure genius!
I hate cd packaging. Not just because it's harder to get into than a bank safe, but because it's wasteful. It'd be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to use cardboard sleeves similar to those vinyl records are sold in.