Take a good look at this image. What does it look like to you? Did Batman lose some esoteric device off his Utility Beltâ„¢? Have we finally "made contact"? Is this some kitchen device your wife will ask you to get, for which you'll not know its name?

Nope. This year, Hannah got a Fisher-Price Digital Arts & Crafts Studio for Christmas. Now normally, it would take several hours to remove such a device from its packaging by untying roughly 37 miles of hard-to-manage twist ties and then massaging the pain out of your fingertips for another ten minutes. But no, the best surprise we had this Christmas were these two little fasteners that attached the console to its supporting cardboard. A quick twist of each, and the toy was free of its corrugated prison and ready to play.

We'll have a review of the actual toy once Hannah has had a good chance to play with it, but since I don't have a clamshell opener yet, these little clasps put a smile on my sleep-deprived face. Thank-you, Fisher-Price, for giving this dad a Merry (and painless) Christmas.