Speaking as someone who has sported a beard for seven years, shaving is a right old pain. That limit, apparently, is a laser-powered razor with no good prototype. Hooray, one less competitor to worry about.
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A crowdfunding campaign for a futuristic razor that was banned from Kickstarter after raising more than $4 million has appeared on Indiegogo. That’s how little people want to keep using traditional razors.
Specifically, the Skarp is “in violation of our rule requiring working prototypes of physical products that are offered as rewards”.
The Skarp Laser Razor raised more than $4 million (£2.6m) in its initial Kickstarter funding drive, easily surpassing its initial goal of just $160,000, on the promise of providing a laser capable of “an irritation free, incredibly close shave”.
Unfortunately for the guys behind the project, The Register has reported that Kickstarter has suspended the campaign because of the site’s policy of only supporting projects for which there are working prototypes, which the Skarp Laser Razor campaign does not have.
This is quite a big step. You can see its rudimentary shaving in the video below.
It seems that Kickstarter agreed that the video didn’t fit the definition of “working prototype”, and removed the project to prevent disappointment down the line (either from the delivery potentially slipping later and later than promised, or the device being shipped under par).
But it’s not gone forever.
Kickstarter thus made a decision to suspend the campaign on those grounds, and because suspensions are permanent, the project won’t be able to re-launch its campaign via Kickstarter; for that it will need to go elsewhere.
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Kickstarter said that suspensions on campaigns can not be undone, so it would seem that the overwhelming support for the Skarp laser razor’s crowdfunding campaign would be going down the drain.
