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Shaving can be the absolute worst, especially for people with sensitive skin. Razors can leave behind razor burn, ingrown hairs and cuts, and when you've worn down a razor so that it's no longer usable, it joins the others in landfills to the tune of 2 billion razors per year in the US (PDF).
The makers of a new product called the Skarp Laser Razor want to give you an incredibly close, irritation-free shave using lasers. The prototype is an aluminum razor-shaped gizmo that they say uses a laser to cut (not burn) the hair at skin level for a close shave, and works for all hair colors.
Because the laser is supposed to last about 50,000 hours and be usable without water, it would be good for the environment as well.
http://www.cnet.com/news/forget-blades-the-skarp-laser-razor-wants-you-to-shave-with-lasers/
[Kickstarter Campaign]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving
(Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Wednesday September 30 2015, @03:43AM
Not shark laser?
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Tork on Wednesday September 30 2015, @04:37AM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2015, @09:10AM
You can find solace in the fact parent was only modded +4 Funny instead of +5.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday September 30 2015, @02:01PM
You have to work with what you have.
I had been a part of another forum a long time ago (not slashdot) that was quite exclusionist and it fizzled due to too strong of enforcement against such things that the self-selected moderators deemed stupid (all the while conveniently forgetting about various individual inanities while persecuting the new user ones). It faded away slowly. That creative spark evaporated, or simply stopped coming back when new folks learned it was a place for angry neckbeards and graybeards (and gray neckbeards). It wasn't due to corporate mismanagement as it was more like trying to maintain a view of how things should be without the power to make it so except on a very small scale. In the end, the more power (moderation) done at that place resulted the more powerless it became over time. Eventually the mods were left to only moderate themselves, with the occasional accidental new user being corrected and not returning.
Besides, sometimes trying to shape something that might not need shaping results in a different product than originally anticipated. Cutting corners doesn't make something well-rounded, as good as that looks when done with paper. There is no cutting-edge left when it's deliberately dulled.
I agree that the immaturity needs to be held in check, but I personally don't know how to manage it aside from ascribing it to a character trait that can be refined only to a certain extent. I was partially at fault for enforcing my beliefs and I was probably wrong as the place doesn't exist anymore. I now think steam needs to be let out...we're not all academics all the time. Perhaps I paid attention to elementary school teachers I had for encouraging students to do the right hing, I may have the right answer (or close to it), as it probably would work well in business and here, too.
Let people have their fun in a safe manner, but make sure the work gets done. It might even be more productive that way...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2015, @03:53PM
kuro5hin?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday September 30 2015, @04:24PM
Slashdolt Logic: "25 year old jokes about sharks and lasers are +5, Funny." 💩
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday September 30 2015, @05:49PM
Well, I would have modded you insightful had I not replied.
I'm not suggesting you are wrong. Clearly, you were not.
It's just that you have no escape without an uphill battle; in my growth towards being less jaded I have come to accept *some* of it as positive. I can be dumb, too.
Perhaps if you consider Austin Powers to be a classic that reaches beyond the generations, then you can in turn quote from beavis and butthead, or Bill and Ted's or Harold and Kumar or Office Space or something instead.
(I've found that not enough people remember caddyshack or ferris bueller...but... austin powers isn't at that age yet. When will it ever be appropriate again to state that "The new oldsmobiles are in early this year!" It seems appropriate whenever I witness a created disaster that the people responsible are totally oblivious about while actively participating in it, but few people get the reference. Or when I say "this is glue. Strong Stuff" when I am about to create a similar disaster that others will gape at as I slip away unnoticed? I'd get them off my lawn if I could only do the same things with my car)
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday September 30 2015, @05:57PM
Soylent Logic: One Year old jokes about 18 year old jokes are +5 funny.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday October 01 2015, @02:12AM
In this case it was essentially on target, and so doesn't deserve you disrespect, even though it *has* been overused. (What did it ever refer to anyway? I've never known.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 01 2015, @08:40AM
> (What did it ever refer to anyway? I've never known.)
Austin Powers.
(Score: 2) by penguinoid on Thursday October 01 2015, @03:16AM
His wit is as sharp as a laser-wielding skarp razor.
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.