I don’t get it. With all of this great technology that we have today, the best solution I have for taking hair off of my face is to hack it off with a blade?

If there’s one area where technology is growing painfully slow, it’s the department of regular hair removal. We have waxing (Which is how old?), shaving (Again … positively prehistoric!), and the decades old chemically burning yourself (And it never even works!). Oh, sure, razors buzz like sexual aids now to help … umm … somehow? And we throw more and more blades into them. Yipee? While electric shavers pretty much just continue along their same old principles. All they do is get easier to clean. They still don’t actually shave any better. And so on and so forth. What has technology really made better here?

Meanwhile in the realm of “permanent” we have the new fad: laser hair removal. Which sounds cool … but has some limitations. There’s the skin tone vs. hair color problems where the computer simply can’t “see” the hairs to laser them. It takes like six or more sessions, weeks in between to heal, and even then is usually only guaranteed to last a year or so. And what about lasering those very intimate parts with lots of soft folding tissue? Some people want to get rid of hair there too. And let’s not forget that price!

So what about a daily (or so) razor, that uses lasers? Being a “daily” device, it doesn’t have to burn down into each hair follicle like laser hair removal does. You’re not “permanently” removing hair. You’re just shaving. Hair burns so easily. Surely there must be a temperature at which hair burns but skin doesn’t. Surely there must be a way to monitor temperatures for safety. Surely there must be a way for technology to step in and bring shaving into the new millennium. Surely?

I want my Star Trek laser razor dammit! Make it so.