F*** Everything, We’re Doing Five Blades
Sunday, 19 March 2006 by Jacob TomawThat was a headline of an article in The Onion, supposedly by the CEO of Gillette, a month ago after Gillette announced the new Fusion. Obviously it is satire, but this has not stopped Jos and me from exclaiming the headline every time the Fusion ad is on TV.
Now the Economist has run the numbers. By 2100, our son or grandson might be hefting a 14 blade razor! Or maybe that is why robots will be invented. Marketing and not need might be driving this but the engineers are slowing it. They have to figure out how to make new blade fit. The growth of blades is similar to Moore’s law with predicts the grown of computing power to double every 18 month.
I predict the Gillette Fission by 2008. No blades! It uses a small fission reaction to blast the stubble away.
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