Stickpecker by MicroWorks

Feeling peck-ish?

In Japan, there is apparently a silent movement towards the use of one’s own chopsticks in public eateries. In today’s environmentally conscious world, disposable wooden chopsticks are increasingly seen as a waste of resources.

If there is one thing that most Japanese miss about the wooden disposable chopsticks, it’s the satisfying feel when they pull them apart. This ritual also happens to signify the starting of any meal.

Rituality to Japan is what breathing is to the normal human being; rituality defines Japan and the Japanese.

Stickpecker is a pretty clever and novel solution for this. These quirky chopsticks have a clever design to it. It has magnets built into each chopstick and when you pull them apart, the sensation replicates the feeling of pulling apart wooden chopsticks.

The woodpecker bird and wooden trunk design is pretty cute, to say the least. I love the clever metaphor.

The company has this to say about them – in Engrish, of course:

“The wood pecker and wood design reminds you of a peaceful forest that you are protecting at that very moment.  You can say good bye to the wooden ones.”

Well, who am I to argue? You can get the Stickpecker from Tokyomade and save those trees.