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Published on Jan. 17, 2024, 3:23 p.m.
Take a look at your bathroom counter. For many, it’s a graveyard of good intentions: a beard trimmer over here, a razor handle …
Published on July 30, 2023, 4 p.m.
T**here’s a peculiar moment** in many a professional’s day, a sort of grooming twilight zone. The clean-shaven look from the mo…
Published on July 29, 2023, 7:59 p.m.
We are obsessed with the infinitesimal. We crave technology that shrinks into oblivion, tools that deliver boundless power whil…
Published on Sept. 1, 2023, 6:53 p.m.
The human face is an engineering nightmare. It’s a soft, elastic, and impossibly complex landscape of shifting contours, sharp …
Published on July 29, 2023, 5:01 p.m.
For thousands of years, the act of shaving has been a simple, if perilous, contract between a sharp edge and human skin. From s…
Published on Aug. 10, 2023, 9:51 p.m.
We dissect an everyday electric razor to reveal the sophisticated principles of mechanical suspension, motor control, and mater…
Published on Dec. 27, 2023, 6:55 a.m.
In a world of $1,000 smartphones and high-performance gadgets, the existence of a functional, rechargeable electric shaver pric…
Published on Sept. 7, 2024, 4:31 p.m.
The pursuit of the perfect “beach wave” is a modern paradox. It is a hairstyle defined by its supposed effortlessness, a look t…
Published on July 29, 2023, 3:45 p.m.
For many, the memory is practically a scar. That first shave—a fumbling, awkward rite of passage, undertaken with a tool that f…
Published on Aug. 5, 2023, 5:52 p.m.
For millions, the morning shave is a ritual—a quiet, repetitive act to prepare for the day ahead. We glide a device over our sk…
Published on Dec. 17, 2023, 10:11 a.m.
For our distant ancestors, it was the sharp, unsettling *scrape* of a flint edge against skin, a sound of necessity mixed with …
Published on Jan. 9, 2024, 7:55 a.m.
For centuries, the act of shaving was a precarious negotiation. It was a close and personal duel fought daily between a sharp e…
Published on Dec. 26, 2023, 6:10 p.m.
The story of civilization is, in many ways, the story of the sharpened edge. It began with a spark of insight—the moment an anc…