Shaving is a pain. Razors cause nicks, cuts, skin irritation, and razor burn.
But two Swedes think they have a solution: A razor that shaves hair with a laser, not a blade. They call it the Skarp Razor.
And the project has gone nuts on Kickstarter.
As we previously reported, in its first 10 days, the Skarp raised $650,000, blowing by its funding goal of $160,000.
With eight days left, the project has now raised nearly $3.9 million.
People are excited because one of the razor’s inventors, Morgan Gustavsson, already invented the laser used by many professional laser hair-removal services.
But that laser has a limitation. It can only identify and cut dark hair. So it can’t be used to cut light, white, or gray hair.
He always wanted to invent a consumer razor but needed to solve the light-colored-hair problem first. Now he and his partner Paul Binun say they have.
They have found a part of the hair molecule, no matter what color, that can be identified and cut by a particular wavelength of light… see more
source: Businessinsider
Tags: futuristic razor, Kickstarter, technology
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