We always maintain that updating simple tools is always the hardest, and there's more to this scissor re-design than just a swoopy re-style: San-Francisco-based Spencer Nugent has given scissors a hard re-think and realized it doesn't make much sense for the bottom blade to be bouncing up and down while trying to cut material laying on a tabletop. His innovative concept thus features a flat bottom that stays put while the top half does the chomping.
Check out the rest of Nugent's book on Coroflot.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Spencer Nugent's improved scissor design
The user now has 4 fingers pressing against the palm, which by my math is an advantage over the "scissor"-typical action of bringing the thumb to 1-3 other fingers.
the arms are to close so you can use only 2 finger phalanxes, only one arm is moving so no use for our strongest finger, the scissors have to have a spring so the moving arm will bounce back
How do you figure? This has the same mechanical advantage that a standard set would. I don't see a specific thumb position though so stability may be compromised.