Every day delivery men show up at my door bearing loads of new things. Some of it is stuff I’ve purchased online, but most of the boxes contain tech products that companies have sent me to review.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jill Fischer sliced her hand on it. Tyler Grogan couldn’t get to a new pair of scissors because of it, and it’s at the root of what some call “wrap rage.” ...

Plastic clamshells are at the top of parents’ most-hated toy packaging list, a Toronto consumer testing company said Tuesday. PTPA Media surveyed its database of 20,000 parents to determine what ...

Parents hate it and it's bad for the environment, so why are so many toys wrapped in layers of plastic wrap, twist ties, and clamshell boxes that practically take a chain saw to open? A packaging ...

The thrill of buying a new gadget or toy can vanish if it comes locked in hard plastic "clamshell" packaging. Those sturdy crimped edges defy scissors, knives, even teeth, and frustration mounts as ...

January 26, 2009 No doubt many readers are still nursing injuries sustained on Christmas morning as they tried to free a new toy or gadget from the impenetrable fortress that is clamshell packaging.