MIT study reveals why razor blades go dull cutting humble old hair

A team of engineers at MIT led by C. Cem Tasan has discovered why steel razor blades go dull even when cutting hair that’s 50 times softer than them. Using an electron microscopic, they found that under the right conditions a single hair can chip a bla… Continue reading MIT study reveals why razor blades go dull cutting humble old hair

Gillette Labs Heated Razor review: Toasty luxury or just hot air?

Between razors that use ultra-thin white sapphire blades to trim with surgical precision, and those that zap the hair off with laser beams, you’d be forgiven for thinking that razor companies have the research budgets of NASA or Tesla. We were curious … Continue reading Gillette Labs Heated Razor review: Toasty luxury or just hot air?