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Moore's Law For Razor Blades?
BartlebyScrivener writes "An article in The Economist examines Moore's Law as applied to razor blade technology: 'For the most cynical shavers, this evolution is mere marketing. Twin blades seemed plausible. Three were a bit unlikely. Four, ridiculous. And five seems beyond the pale. Few people, though, seem willing to bet that Gillette's five-bladed Fusion is the end of the road for razor-blade escalation. More blades may seem impossible for the moment — though strictly speaking the Fusion has six, because it has a single blade on its flip-side for tricky areas — but anyone of a gambling persuasion might want to examine the relationship between how many blades a razor has, and the date each new design was introduced'" I'm legally obligated to mention the Onion article that predicted this.
640k blades
Spishak did a much better job. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7TMlrDXtw
It's all well and good to go nuts over more blades in a razor, but nobody ever mentions the other side of the equation. I once bought a pack of shavers at the dollar store that somehow left me with the same amount of stubble, but a lot less face.
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Forget the 14-blade razor in the year 2100. We have a 15 blade one now.
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I remember reading this article back in MARCH. Seven months is a little long, even by Slashdot standards.
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Now at 5 the blade density is already getting up there so I'm not quite sure how much higher they can go (without pointless tricks like splitting the blades in half and calling it "10 bladed").
Sir, if you don't patent that - and I mean right now - you're an idiot.
What about the one ad where the tough-guy has those two different coloured balls of power or something. Then he smacks them together. Or first they come out of some sort of centrifuge or something.
I don't think they're allowed to run that commercial here in the States.
Yeah, and how do they get a nice even layer of shaving cream with crisp, well defined boundaries? Do they use masking tape on those guys?
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... if you try too hard to use it in a complicated way, it just cuts your head off, and saves us from having to hear about it.
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In fact, I don't think I've cut myself since dropping the shaving cream (~6 months ago).
You sure it was the cream and not Moore's Law turning into Murphy's Law?
The odds of any blade being defective... multiplied by the ever increasing number of blades....
I'm not quite sure how much higher they can go (without pointless tricks like splitting the blades in half and calling it "10 bladed").
.carbon!; to combine light weight with strength. Let's see the competition match technology like that. And they're, ummmmmmmmm, organic. Yeah, that's the ticket, but you vegetarians will be pleased to learn that they contain no meat."
"With our new nanotechnology we have been able to create a blade with billions of discrete cutting components per millimeter of blade! Batteries? We don't need no stinking batteries. Our blades are internally powered by atomic quantum energy. But wait, there's more, they contain. .
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Ought to be enough for anyone!
even Richard Stallman...
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Yea, but image a beowulf of those. You could shave your face, your ass, your balls, your back and your legs in half a second. Put a small motor and a AAA in the thing, make it look like a 1950s lawn mower. You can shave on the way to work, talk on your cell phone AND drink that mocha latte at the same time. Fuck, you could shave a rottweiler with that bad boy and he wouldn't know what hit him till he was balder than a baby's ass.
(Sorry, got caught up in the Onion article, and I *DO* work in marketing for a living...)
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You sure it was the cream and not Moore's Law turning into Murphy's Law?
The odds of any blade being defective... multiplied by the ever increasing number of blades....
Ah, but this is where the next generation of razor blade technology comes into its own - RAIB! Redundant Array of (Incredibly)Expensive Blades)
A mirrored array enables you to shave in half the time, whereas a RAIB-5 array just puts stripes on your face.
You could say that it's the cutting edge of razor blade technology.
Har har.
I used to shave with just water and a hand full of soap suds (from bar soap). Since I got my recent job and see that the biker guy has a full beard and long hair, I have stopped shaving all together. It was a little gross when I had a sinus infection and started drooling in my sleep but other than that, having a beard is cool. For some reason, people give me lots of room at the supermarket and shops now. Cool!
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Mr Stallman, is that you?
> The biggest improvement I got to my shaving was when i grew a goatee (actually a Vandyke, but whatever). Anyyway, not having to shave
> around your chin and mouth makes everything a lot easier.
Yeah, but the downside is that you look like a bit of a dick.
to go to a fun party and pick you up some "intimiate shave lotion". places like pure romance or passion parties sell it, it's for women to shave their junk. i use it to shave my face and it's the best. it's sort of scented, so you end up smelling like shaved pussy, and there are worse things to smell like :-)
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Or maybe I forgot to check the 'post anonymously' button..... oops.
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I always use mirror technology when I shave, but only hardware, not software. Also, my blades get quite hot in action, I'm still figuring out the cooling requirements.
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I thought you put the shaving cream on so you knew where you already shaved.
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I think the marketers have an acronym for this increase, Redundant Array of Blades Increasing Every Season (RABIES).
It's getting so the only reason I shave anymore is to get the cuts, and then dash some lemon juice mixed with rubbing alcohol on there. That fucking burn will wake you up a lot faster than coffee. Plus, the endorphins released when you realize you haven't lopped off an entire lip, or that your head hasn't entirely been eaten half away are SOOOO GOOOOOOD.
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Thanks for playing,
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That's no goatee, that's a GOAT !
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Hygiene? That's news to a lot of nerds.
I'm tired of hearing people say '5 blades is the physical/mechanical limit'. It's not. Think about increasing density for a second. I can forsee a quantum razor with 2.99 billion blades, built using 45 nm technology that not only removes all traces of hair from your skin, it also removes any hair that is to grow in the next 12 years using time-dependant quantum cutting.
Ask the guy further up the thread, his face smells like pussy.
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I use horse clippers.
I shit you not, electric horse clippers from the feed store.
I always look like I have had a full night of partying and never went home, but it's a damn easy shave.
Last time I shaved for real my co-workers all assumed one of three things:
Someone died and I went to/had to go to a funeral.
I had an interview.
I had a court date.
In reality I was messing with them and it was fun.
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and yup I've used those same clippers on the horse too.
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I think they are over complicating things. Instead of applying Moore's Law, why not Occam's Razor?