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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: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Wednesday September 30 2015, @02:42PM
Speaking of color, I totally understand how a pasty white vampiric complexion guy with dark hair could preferentially burn the hair off. Hows that work if you're a black skinned dude with equally black hair, superficially it would tend to sear skin as the same rate as hair due to similar color, right?
Maybe its some kind of surface area to volume ratio thing where frying off a hair's thickness of skin wouldn't really do much to my skin but would pretty well annihilate a single hair.