Consider the lowly nail clipper. Unchanged for decades, it doesn’t work very well. The inventors of Klhip aim to change that.
Let’s just get this out of the way up front: These fingernail clippers cost $70, and if you want them in their swanky, handstitched leather case, they’ll set you back $95. What on earth makes them cost so much, and are they worth it? We got one of these little gadgets in our Midwest Test Facility, and clipped a bunch of nails to find out.
If you care about how your finger nail clippers look, you’re going to love Klhip. Its brushed stainless steel finish and unusual shape is aesthetically pleasing, and in this instance, function follows form, because they work extremely well.
Maybe I’ve been using dull clippers, but my first impression of this precision instrument is that it’s exceptionally sharp. It cuts through even the thi ckest toenails like butter. However, its blades aren’t quite curved enough for my taste, cutting nails with a straight line, necessitating multiple clips to get a smooth, curved edge.
Klhip’s makers say it’s designed to catch a lot of the clippings inside, but we noticed the clippings falling to the floor anyway. But that’s an improvement, because the clippings don’t go flying all over the place. The trajectory of clipped nails is somehow dampened, with their direction after clipping more predictable than when using conventional clippers.
The trick of these futuristic clippers is the fact that when you’re cutting your nails with Klhip, you’re applying pressure directly over the area that’s doing the cutting, rather than the other way around with conventional clippers. I found these clippers to be a lot easier to control, with their “falling rate cam” slowing down the cutting edges as they close in on the nail.
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