14 DAY TRIAL // Resorting to surgery every time the body fails in living up to the fashion requirements is not something new. Well, a man's thumbs seemed to be unable to keep up with the touchscreen trend. So he had them surgically modified to make a perfect match for his iPhone.
It looks like large, bulky thumbs are not most suitable for handling such delicate devices. The frustration of accidentally touching other nearby buttons proves to be a huge problem demanding for a solution. Thomas Martel, 28, of Bonnie Brae, Colorado has decided that the only available choice for best using his iPhone was that of surgery. The intervention is called "whittling" and results in sculpting smaller, more effeminate fingers.
This sounds like the ultimate sacrifice made in order to adapt to technology. The man has always used smartphones and had trouble even in handling the small buttons of the QWERTY keyboard that many such devices come equipped with. As such an evolved device packed with large buttons was impossible to find, he reached the conclusion that his hands were really the problem.
The "whittling" surgery has modified both his thumbs by muscle altering and fingernails modification. The man now has smaller fingers, but has the same big hands, as he is a rather large man. It turns out that this is definitely not an aesthetic intervention, as the result can't be an appealing one. This rather enters the large number of surgeries that many people undergo for service and not vanity.
The man said that the problem has been solved and that the surgery will surely be a pay-off over the years. He is already experiencing the first benefits in using his iPhone with a larger amount of functionality, although a surprising new problem has occurred: opening spaghetti sauce jars is more difficult than ever before.