To cut your fingernails and smooth out jagged edges, ideally, the two tools you’ll want to have on hand are: a pair of nail clippers or manicure scissors a nail file or emery board In this ...

Steel nail files or nail buffers are intended for finger and toenails. However, when angled at about 45 degrees at the tip of a scissor blade, they are effective sharpeners.

Sharpening scissors with a sharpening stone is tough work, but this sharpener makes the whole process nearly foolproof. It'll sharpen left-handed scissors in one side and right-handed in the other.

The scissors were not quite the most useless gadget ever, however. That honour went to electric nail files. Costing as much as £200, the devices are supposed to deliver the sort of perfect shape ...

Electric nail files and foot spas? Top 20 list of the world's most pointless gadgets By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 10:38 EDT, 30 April 2008 ...