Creativity Gone Wild!
| posted by Kevin OhannessianGillette announced that next year, they're releasing the Fusion: a razor with five blades.
While I look forward to an easier shave, I wonder if they're going too far. Five blades? I had thought Mach 3 was kind of extreme. Then Schick released the Quattro, with four blades. Now Gillette is one-upping them with a fifth blade on the back of the razor. Will number five really make a difference? Sounds like marketing madness to me. Or is it simply creativity run amok? There is a point of thinking so far outside the box, you lose sight of the original goal.
What do you think about the Fusion? What other products have been too "imaginative"?
Update: The Onion, a popular humor newspaper saw this coming. Note: due to strong language this is NOT work safe.
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September 15, 2005 at 6:35am
neelakantanThis is outrageously funny. At this rate, I had written in my post of a few days back, we will have the razor blade equivalent of Moores Law. http://ecophilo.blogspot.com/2005/09/hair-razing-pace-of-innovation.html
September 15, 2005 at 7:53am
davidWhat are they thinking of...shaving a porcupine? or perhaps they were inspired by the photo of Saddam as he was captured from his hiding place. Or is this a request from Rumsfeld and the DoD to have special razors to shave all the terrorists they either capture or render?
September 15, 2005 at 11:00am
Bob"Fusion" is the right name for the product. That much thin-slicing on our face will most likely result in a new kind of look for us. We may be 'smooth', but I have to wonder what kind of new fusion will happen on the surface of our skin. Maybe we could be creative about it and add a little "toner" to the razor and criss-cross our face to end up with a look like the baseball field after they are "shaved".
September 15, 2005 at 12:15pm
Shawn LeaThe new battery-powered razor for women made me laugh. They promise the vibration gives you silkier, smoother legs - but it came across to me as a pathetic attempt to do something different with a pink plastic shell. (Disclaimer: I have not tried the razor. I just can't. It makes me laugh.) ;)
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