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Ever heard the rather pessimistic phrase “the best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm?”

Well, challenging that notion is Dokkiri, a Japanese company, attempting to place that helping hand in your pocket, stuck to the back of your iPhone.

For all the times your phone has slid, jumped or wriggled out of your own hand whilst talking, Dokkri has the solution: an iPhone case with an eerily real looking silicon hand attached to its back. The case comes with the guarantee that you will never drop your phone in the bath again.

It is creepy and it’s Kooky, even mysterious and Spooky, but getting up close and even more personal with our iPhones might just be altogether handy, don’t you think?

If you are a man and have issues holding another man’s hand, do not despair, the accommodating attachment comes in a female version too.

There is also a kid’s version for adults who have very small hands and all those 10 year olds who got an iPhone for Christmas.

As of yet, there is no male version. As female hands are generally much better kept than male hands, we can understand this decision as a clever marketing ploy. Also, the thought of any man supporting a conversation for more than two minutes is improbable.

In reality, we are not sure how many of these $65 third limbs will sell. Whilst we are constantly trying to downsize everything to fit in to our pockets and bags, having a body part sized addition to our phone makes the battle to be compact that little bit more challenging. Then there is the obvious downside of having fingers poking out of our bags, briefcases and top pockets.

We would rather drop the extra appendage and put faith in our own hands to do the job, but not a bad idea, for comedy value at least, you gotta hand it to them.