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Dr. Yuki Tanabe-Rowe, Director of Packaging Resistance Research

The Guest Book · No. 2299-PENDING

Dr. Yuki Tanabe-Rowe

Director of Packaging Resistance Research

  • Founding expert
  • Booked soon
“The package wants to stay closed. Respect that. Then get scissors.”

Yuki Tanabe-Rowe has dedicated her career to the plastic packaging that does not want to be opened. She once got into a sealed blister pack using only a spoon, a deep breath and forty minutes. Her lab rates every package on how many tools it takes and how many words you say while using them. She keeps a pair of emergency scissors in every room, and every pair is still sealed in its packaging.

Credentials
Two doctorates, one in materials science and one, she says, in patience; founder of the Clamshell Containment Lab
Known for
Opening a sealed blister pack with a spoon and forty minutes.
Weird fact
Owns thirty pairs of scissors, all still sealed in their packaging.
Specialties
  • packaging
  • gadgets
  • instructions and manuals
  • assembly
Joins from
San Jose, California
Appearances
0 · first booking coming up

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