One Ikea store zip-tied the middle finger of a wooden model hand down to prevent people from rearranging it to flip people off. Michael Symons 2021-08-04T15:14:21Z ...

A reader takes a creative detour from the tradition of manicule as pointing hand. Taken from a copy of Cicero’s Paradoxa Stoicorum from the fourteenth century. BANC MS UCB 045.

The i-Limb, a bionic hand, has fin¬ger “joints” that flex and bend like natural fingers. Each finger has an individual motor powering it, en¬hancing dexterity and allowing pa¬tients to ...

There are some instances where pointing is necessary, of course. But, in these cases, it's always more polite to gesture with an open hand rather than your index finger.

When the wooden gripper was placed in an environment with 95% relative humidity (RH), the hygroscopic gel on one side absorbed moisture from its surroundings, causing the hand’s fingers to open ...