The considered picnics or snacks on the park will now not convey up dreaded pictures of fingers coated in crumbs and sticky goo due to a intelligent new product known as the Monchi, which is a snack container that integrates a set of finger-operated silicone tongs into the lid. Genius.

It’s one other merciless truth of life that a few of our most scrumptious snack meals—Cheetos, Doritos, powdered donuts, wings, the record goes on—depart fingers coated in flavored mud and sauces that even mountains of tiny moist napkins can by no means get totally clear. We’ve provide you with options to the issue earlier than, together with consuming all meals from tubes just like the astronauts do, or gadgets just like the Snactiv finger-worn chopsticks that popped up earlier this 12 months, however it’s a lower than superb resolution for youthful snackers who excel at filthying up their fingertips however battle with most utensils.

The Monchi, by comparability, is simple to make use of for anybody who’s efficiently mastered using finger puppets. The snack container options an built-in pair of grips that may be operated by merely sticking a pair of fingers into holes on prime of the versatile silicone lid. Food objects can then be picked up and consumed with out the meals ever touching naked fingers, and even when the grips get soiled, they find yourself again contained in the container when the lid is changed. The container itself even incorporates a versatile silicone backside half that collapses so it’s straightforward to succeed in meals on the very backside when utilizing the grips.

If you could have children or must wrangle a younger’n in some capability every day, you’ve in all probability already bought your bank card on the prepared. The solely draw back to the Monchi is that it’s at the moment solely accessible by way of a Kickstarter crowdfunding marketing campaign that has already surpassed its modest funding purpose of slightly below $9,000.

The most cost-effective strategy to preorder the Monchi is with a $24 “Early Bird” contribution to the marketing campaign, which implies you’ll not solely have to attend till April of subsequent 12 months on the earliest to get one, however paying $24 for a single reusable container isn’t precisely low cost. You can get the Monchi at a reduced worth when you preorder multiple, however it’s nonetheless a pricy resolution. During an ongoing pandemic it’s additionally further essential to be affected person when backing a crowdfunded product as ongoing provide chain and transport points might very effectively have an effect on the supply occasions for the Monchi, too. But the tantalizing promise of delightfully dirt-free digits could possibly be greater than price even an prolonged wait.