Laser Razor... in 2010
A couple of years ago I was fooled by a tantelizing Wired review (see Non-Bleeding Edge) of a laser razor which claimed to stunt hair grow so you'd only have to shave with it once every couple of months.
Non-Bleeding Edge
Making mincemeat of the Gillette Mach 3, Light Solutions' Laser Razor dispenses with sharpened steel entirely and smoothes your beard or body with a solid-state semiconductor laser. To use it, you apply a cooling gel - just like shaving cream - and shave as usual. The lightshaver's near-infrared beam penetrates your skin to make all your stubble fall out in about two days, while temporarily stunting hair follicles to delay future growth. The result is a shave so close, it'll last a couple of months.
Of course the review listed availability in 2010, so I just wrote it off as another wishlist item which maybe we'd see some day. Turns out there's an element of truth to this. According to a paper from the Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, researchers from NIST and a "private company" (Gillette perhaps?) are collaborating on this very technology. See a short write-up on pages 924 and 925 of the paper cited above. No more details as of yet, but I for one would pay big money to save 15 minutes a day and still have a close-shaven face.
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Posted by Russell Neufeld at November 5, 2004 10:17 AM
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