"Why, for instance, use your hands at all -- why use them even for blowing your nose or sharpening a pencil? Surely you could fix some kind of steel and rubber contraption to your shoulders and let your arms wither into stumps of skin and bone? And so with every organ and every faculty...." -- George Orwell, _The Road to Wigan Pier_ (1937)

I should confess that I have used an electric pencil sharpener for many years, tho not yet an electric nose blower.