For the inexperienced Westerner, using chopsticks can be a maddening affair. Imagine how much worse it must be, though, for the disabled: those individuals who might have lost their thumb or fingers ...

Katsuyuki Miyabo makes custom chopsticks for the handicapped. Spoon & Tamago writes that the Japanese woodsmith uses spring-operated mechanisms in his creations, which help users maintain better grips ...

I was a late bloomer when it came to learning how to use chopsticks at home. Up until I was about 10 years old, I was the only one in my family who used a fork when we had Asian food. Some blamed it ...

When it comes to styles of chopsticks, there are cultural differences: Japanese chopsticks are typically pointier, for example, while Chinese chopsticks have blunt ends, and Chinese and Vietnamese ...

Harvey Industries Founder & CEO Jack Xu and Bridge City Tool Works Founder John Economaki show off the Chopstick Master, making it easy for anyone to craft a custom set of chopsticks in just 15 ...

Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, are a pair of small equal-length tapered sticks, usually made of wood, used for eating Asian food. It is believed the first chopsticks were developed over 5,000 years ...

In Japan, chopsticks are a cultural instrument, universally used and understood for the role they play. But for disabled people who may have limited movement in their hands, or missing fingers, they ...