Title | "Skarp" Laser Razor Suspended by Kickstarter | |
Date | Tuesday October 13 2015, @08:29PM | |
Author | cmn32480 | |
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from the zz-top-is-safe dept. |
Following up on previous coverage, after raising over $4M toward their $160K goal, Kickstarter has suspended funding of the Skarp Laser Razor and cancelled all pledges for violation of Kickstarter rules requiring working prototypes of physical products that are offered as rewards.
From The Register:
KickStarter has suspended funding for the Skarp Laser Razor, a crowdfunded effort to replace conventional razors with a laser-powered shaving implement.
Reg readers have shared a KickStarter communique in which the crowdfunding platform says "we've concluded that it is in violation of our rule requiring working prototypes of physical products that are offered as rewards."
In other words, the Skarp crew doesn't have a working prototype. This video from the project's KickStarter page suggests there is a prototype in existence, but not a very effective one: the device does knock off a few hairs, but is a long way short of the experience of pulling a conventional razor down one's skin and having the majority of hairs beneath the blade cleft.
takyon: Update: The razor has resurfaced on Indiegogo.
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