Skarp the Laser Razor is cancelled by Kickstarter

[pwn_intended]

So after backing that pretty nifty laser razor product that was talked about on the WAN show a couple weeks back, I receive the following email from Kickstarter:

Hello,
This is a message from Kickstarter’s Integrity team. We’re writing to notify you that the Skarp Laser Razor project has been suspended, and your pledge has been canceled.
 
After requesting and reviewing additional material from the creator of the project, we’ve concluded that it is in violation of our rule requiring working prototypes of physical products that are offered as rewards. Accordingly, all funding has been stopped and backers will not be charged for their pledges. No further action is required on your part. Suspensions cannot be undone.
We take the integrity of the Kickstarter system very seriously. We only suspend projects when we find evidence that our rules are being violated.
Regards,
Kickstarter Integrity Team
 
So after reaching over 4 Million in funding, the laser razor got banhammered pretty hard by Kickstarter.
Here is the link to the KS page for the project:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skarp/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving
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Edited October 13, 2015 by Whiskers
Fixed for night theme users

[Nexxus]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Rpkiller]

WHY!

[pwn_intended]

This made me a very sad panda when I got the email from them...

[Paytend01]

Why?

[Guest Kloaked]

Fix yer formatting. Go into your editor box and click the button that looks like a light switch so you can remove the color bbcode.

 

For future reference, use the 'Paste as plain text' option in Google Chrome. Alternatively, there's a setting that I just noticed in the gear button on the editor that automatically makes what you paste into plain text.

[Sors]

I always doubt that they could burn hair as fast as they claimed using only AA batteries.

[Whiskers]

Fix yer formatting. Go into your editor box and click the button that looks like a light switch so you can remove the color bbcode.

 

For future reference, use the 'Paste as plain text' option in Google Chrome. Alternatively, there's a setting that I just noticed in the gear button on the editor that automatically makes what you paste into plain text.

 

No need, I've fixed it.

 

Please keep this in mind for the future though. If you copy text over from a site which has it formatted then paste it on LTT it tends to retain that formatting, and doesn't display properly for those who use the night theme.

[Yummychickenblue]

What is this?

[iamdarkyoshi]

No need, I've fixed it.

 

Please keep this in mind for the future though. If you copy text over from a site which has it formatted then paste it on LTT it tends to retain that formatting, and doesn't display properly for those who use the night theme.

An easy way to do this is to do Ctrl shift v to paste. It pastes as plain text

[AresKrieger]

This is why I never fund things up front, show me the product before I pony up the greenbacks

[L.E.D]

Well that's sad, oh well not surprising however.

[Mao_Zedong]

This is one of the first kickstarters i was really interested in. I hope they just move to indiegogo to spite them.

[pwn_intended]

Fix yer formatting. Go into your editor box and click the button that looks like a light switch so you can remove the color bbcode.

 

For future reference, use the 'Paste as plain text' option in Google Chrome. Alternatively, there's a setting that I just noticed in the gear button on the editor that automatically makes what you paste into plain text.

 

 

No need, I've fixed it.

 

Please keep this in mind for the future though. If you copy text over from a site which has it formatted then paste it on LTT it tends to retain that formatting, and doesn't display properly for those who use the night theme.

I will keep this in mind. My apologies, I've been purposely trying to use EDGE to see if it can indeed be a daily driver. This is the only site that its totally broken on...

[Guest Kloaked]

I will keep this in mind. My apologies, I've been purposely trying to use EDGE to see if it can indeed be a daily driver. This is the only site that its totally broken on...

 

It's gonna be a while before Edge is useful, ha.

[bcredeur97]

if they were right and they actually know it was going to work, they will be back with working prototypes this time

[pit5000]

Dollar Shave Club

[MrDynamicMan]

Yeah no, not surprised. "Lasers operating the the right frequencies to be able to cut hair but not skin" is a tub full of snake oil.

[Inkz]

Darn, I was really looking forward to that.  Oh well, I guess it was too good to be true.

[Kamil]

I was never willing to pay for one of those without a review or, ideally, a trial run. Assurances that it works with absolutely every type of hair on earth given that it's far more technical than just "burn with a laser" don't really mean much if it turns out that they just didn't have the ability to test every single type, and that's assuming it wasn't just a scam to begin with.

Apparently Kickstarter thought the latter. They did seem to have some sort of laser being used to "cut" hair in the video, but I who knows.

[CoffeeBlack]

They've moved to IndieGoGo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-skarp-laser-razor-21st-century-shaving#/

 

Edit: Since they've basically started over there, it looks like all of the super cheap early bird specials are available again.

[RagnarokDel]

Yeah no, not surprised. "Lasers operating the the right frequencies to be able to cut hair but not skin" is a tub full of snake oil.

You could see the hair getting cut by a laser in the video.

you can see the shave demo here. They're going to need a larger laser because it doesnt seem reliable.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Kickstarter were quietly given a brown envelope from Gillette, I'm sure of it.

 

They have an effective monopoly on this market, somehow without intervention from anybody, in 98% of the world.

[ShadowCaptain]

you can see the shave demo here.

 

gee that looks effective....I could probably shave better with a chocolate bar wrapper

[Syh]

It's gonna be a while before Edge is useful, ha.

 

Well, judging from that shave demo.. so is this razor.