10 Aug
Man has thumbs altered to improve iPhone dexterity
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This story isn’t for the faint of heart. In fact, we wouldn’t really recommend it for anybody, but we’ll soldier on regardless. Thomas Martel hails from Colorado, and after upgrading to an iPhone, he decided his big hands were just too much of a burden to bear. “From my old Treo, to my Blackberry, to this new iPhone, I had a hard time hitting the right buttons, and I always lost those little styluses,” says Martel. So what’s a man to do? Why, get those digits downsized, of course. Thomas went under the knife for a new technique called “whittling.” The doctors made a small cut in each thumb and shaved down the bones, then they adjusted the muscles and fingernails to fit the new thumb size. Martel’s new thumbs look a tad effeminate, and there’s always that problem of expense and general discomfort, but he thinks the procedure “will pay for itself in ten to fifteen years. And what it’s saving me in frustration - that’s priceless.” Whatever you say, Thomas.