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Title    "Skarp" Laser Razor Suspended by Kickstarter
Date    Tuesday October 13 2015, @08:29PM
Author    cmn32480
Topic   
from the zz-top-is-safe dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/13/0210239

N3Roaster writes:

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.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "N3Roaster" - mailto:roaster@wilsonscoffee.com
  2. "previous coverage" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/09/29/1456253
  3. "Kickstarter has suspended funding of the Skarp Laser Razor" - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving/
  4. "The Register" - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/13/laser_razor_snuffed_out_by_kickstarter/
  5. "resurfaced" - http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/13/laser_razor_indiegogo/
  6. "Indiegogo" - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving#/
  7. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=10031

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