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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday July 26 2020, @02:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the flowbees-still-exist? dept.

Inventor Builds Functioning Haircutting Robot - Nerdist:

We all have a special relationship with our personal barber or hairstylist. There's a certain level of trust and intimacy required to let someone consistently operate sharp instruments near our head and face. However, a global pandemic made us realize they are truly among the most important people in our lives. We need them. We. Need. Them. And one man's ingenious invention has proven just how true that is. He built an impressive, complicated machine that gives haircuts. But the insane amount of work required to build one isn't the main reason it's inferior to an actual human. Nor is it the obvious safety issues and incomplete haircut it provides. It's not even the fact that it's basically an advanced Flowbee.

It's the impersonal small talk.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 26 2020, @09:23PM (#1026773)

    > ..cutting my own hair with clippers ...

    Hated barbers as a kid, the clipper buzz drove me nuts (and sharp things near my head didn't help either). Shortly after I got out of the house I let my hair grow. Now I take an inch or two off every couple of months, pull each side below my chin and clip with scissors.

    Thanks to another poster for the Flowbee link, that might be an easy way to keep my beard even when my SO is away (she tag teams with sisters at their elderly mother's house). I do trust her near me with scissors.

    Every now and then someone tries to tell me about all the good local news/gossip I'm missing at the barber shop. That's OK, I'll pass. Not that it's a lot, but it's money in the bank if you cut your own hair.