A Reddit post on the "Mildly Interesting" subreddit showed the wooden hand, which can be adjusted to change the finger position ... in the shape of an angle pointing down.

The hand has fingers with several jointed segments, inspired by those wooden hand models sold as home decor at IKEA. The fingers are controlled via a toothed belt system, with two beefy 11 kg ...

And, of course, big-ass foam fingers. It certainly feels ... made 400 oversized pointing hands out of masonite (engineered wood) and sold all of them to raise money for the industrial arts ...

The following is the third of three excerpts from Keith Houston’s new book, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. Unlike the pilcrow, which ...