The creators of the Skarp laser razor, a crowdfunded device that promised to offer a close, soap-free shave with no irritation, have been suspended from Kickstarter because they don’t have a working prototype.
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A crowd funding campaign to create a futuristic razor that uses a laser to cut hair, rather than traditional blades.
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.
But lest you were anxious that the two Swedes who started the project would let their laser-shaving ambitions die, they have already moved onto another crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. Also it’s a doggone laser razor, so it’s practically a lightsaber. Things aren’t looking too bad over on Indiegogo though, with $70,000 raised in the first seven hours of the campaign going live. Kickstarter, however, is skeptical of these unproven claims and has suspended the campaign indefinitely. “This is the shaving light escaping the fiber into the hair”.
And other online commentators questioned the scientific plausibility of the razor – wondering whether such a small device, running only on a single AAA battery, would even have enough power to cut hair reliably.
Apparently, it was a message more than 20,000 Kickstarter backers were willing to part with cash to hear – the project raised more than $4 million before Kickstarter shut it down. “You gotta do better than that piss green video with a 2 minute shave for a wrist”, writes user Mike King. Now, a company must demonstrate at the very least a working prototype for any object which it is actually intending to ship to backers.
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