iSlice®

I have had a Lakeland old style version of this for years but it can't beat the iSlice . At last a tool that gets through those infuriating plastic wraps that drive me mad. I have arthritic hands and on many occasions have had to give the plastic 'best' till I get a strong armed visitor. Not any more! I cut through a very stubborn plastic cover so easily I couldn't believe it. I will keep my old cutter as it has the gift of only cutting through one layer of paper without destroying all the pages clipping out a recipe or something, The new islice cuts through several sheets.

One of the most useful things I have ever had. Used everyday. Have already bought a spare in case I should lose it.

This review is for an older version of this product

I've found this invaluable. It's excellent on tape around boxes (which it can be impossible to get scissors under), those self-sealed plastic bags sold for posting, bubble-lined jiffy envelopes, and thinner blister packs. It won't do all blister packs or the tougher "clamshells". Got one for someone I know with shaky old hands too, very useful. You do have to hold it with its bottom flat to the thing being cut, took me a while to realise that when it wasn't cutting I was tilting it. Once you know, it becomes second nature.

I was very excited about this gadget as I am always cutting out coupons and recipes from magazines and thought it would be very handy for this purpose. How wrong I was. I have to do so much fiddling around to get the angle absolutely correct and have it lying absolutely flat etc etc that I could have the coupon cut out in a fraction of the time with a pair of scissors. I then thought it would come in useful for cutting through the hard plastic packaging that surrounds everything these days but it is no good for that either. Extremely disappointed with this purchase.

I have one on the side of the fridge and one up in the office. They are better than scissors for getting into the very tough bubble plastic of that well known American warehouse's products. As the other reviews state it is necessary to use it flat. They don't look much but if you haven't tried one you really must.