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 …
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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 Feb. 18, 2025, 2:12 p.m.
There are objects we interact with so frequently, so intimately, that they become invisible. The electric shaver is one such de…
Published on July 29, 2023, 12:50 p.m.
The morning ritual is a familiar one. The low hum of a small motor, a few minutes of guided passes across the face, and a clean…
Published on Aug. 21, 2023, 7:07 p.m.
It begins with a low, steady hum—a sound so common in modern life it barely registers. It’s the sound of a small, precisely con…
Published on July 28, 2023, 9:44 p.m.
Open any bathroom cabinet, and you'll find a small museum of applied science. Tucked between the fluoride toothpaste and the so…
Published on Aug. 19, 2025, 2:24 p.m.
In 1936, in a small garage in Oakland, California, an Italian window cleaner named Ettore Steccone perfected a simple yet revol…