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Shawsie64 · 02:51 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bgRs...layer_embedded

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THE interwebs are abuzz - this time, literally - with excitement after a video surfaced yesterday of a man who claims to have developed a "shaving helmet".
The aptly titled "Shaving Helmet" featured on YouTube has been picked up by hundreds of tech and media sites such as Huffington Post, Wired and Gizmodo.
The device does exactly what it says - put it on and it automatically (or as one site put it, “automagically”) shaves your head for you.
But before you get all excited, it is highly unlikely that the helmet will work the way it appears to in the video.
The helmet has been fitted with four razors which sit on aluminium rails and are powered by two motors which are fixed on either side of the helmet.
A tube of shaving gel attached to the back of the helmet automatically injects into the helmet for the duration of the shave (approximately 15 seconds).

lightless_shado · (02-09-2011, 02:48 AM)

What could possibly go wrong?

NintendoGal · (02-09-2011, 02:48 AM)

The question isn't if it's a fake or not, but why would you fake something like this?

Jokergrin · (02-09-2011, 02:49 AM)

that sounds... safe

Stabby McSter · (02-09-2011, 02:49 AM)

Aw tits, I wish this was real. :(

Shawsie64 · (02-09-2011, 02:49 AM)

Originally Posted by NintendoGal:

The question isn't if it's a fake or not, but why would you fake something like this?

ha true..

Dunno how you'd adjust to each persons heads shape.

buy teh haloz · (02-09-2011, 02:50 AM)

Originally Posted by Jokergrin:

that sounds... safe

Bread · (02-09-2011, 02:50 AM)

Can I put it on my balls?

EricHasNoPull · (02-09-2011, 02:55 AM)

why move the camera away from the "magic" while it's happening?

we could still hear the guy talk, no need to see him, could it be ....FAKE!!

Sinatar · (02-09-2011, 02:55 AM)

Man that'd be rad if it were real. I wonder how you'd clean it? I guess remove the blades and wash em all or something.

vatstep · (02-09-2011, 02:57 AM)

Most likely fake — this is viral marketing for some other shaving-related product or something.

SpacLock · (02-09-2011, 02:58 AM)

Well...

There's 4 blades and if you look at the tracks inside the helmet you can see that there's no way for the blades to shave around your ears, or even close to them + add the space between the razors which would give you corn rows (basically) and logic will tell you that they pulled the ol' switcharoo. Possibly a twin or a clever edit.

Shawsie64 · (02-09-2011, 02:59 AM)

Yeah im leaning towards a twin... looks too good to be true!

Mission · (02-09-2011, 03:01 AM)

Fake. If they wanted to show how real it was they would have never panned away from him.

Sinatar · (02-09-2011, 03:02 AM)

Originally Posted by vatstep:

Most likely fake — this is viral marketing for some other shaving-related product or something.

Well the dude who is talking about the helmet is holding a headblade in that video, so if it's viral marketing for anything, it's headblade.

Router · (02-09-2011, 03:03 AM)

Reminds me of the suck & cut

Risible · (02-09-2011, 03:05 AM)

This always astounds me. Some bullshit video goes up and people post responses like "Most likely fake" or "I doubt it's real but.."

OF COURSE IT'S FUCKING FAKE. Just think for one second of the engineering that would need to go into a device that could go on any persons head and shave them correctly. That's straight up Star Trek shit.

Not to mention the safety and legal ramifications of manufacturing such a device.

It's like that stupid video that showed "3D without glasses" with the guys eyes blinking to simulate 3D. Even that video got tons of "Is this real?!?!?!111" responses when it couldn't have more obviously been a joke.

FFS.

Trurl · (02-09-2011, 03:10 AM)

Originally Posted by Risible:

This always astounds me. Some bullshit video goes up and people post responses like "Most likely fake" or "I doubt it's real but.."

OF COURSE IT'S FUCKING FAKE. Just think for one second of the engineering that would need to go into a device that could go on any persons head and shave them correctly. That's straight up Star Trek shit.

Not to mention the safety and legal ramifications of manufacturing such a device.

It's like that stupid video that showed "3D without glasses" with the guys eyes blinking to simulate 3D. Even that video got tons of "Is this real?!?!?!111" responses when it couldn't have more obviously been a joke.

FFS.

Whoa, whoa, whoa--that was fake?

BowieZ · (02-09-2011, 03:11 AM)

Originally Posted by NintendoGal:

The question isn't if it's a fake or not, but why would you fake something like this?

Many murder mysteries are crafted around this rhetoric.

dankir · (02-09-2011, 03:14 AM)

I'm getting nervous just reading about it. WHO THE FUCK WOULD PUT THAT ON THEIR HEAD???

Bboy AJ · (02-09-2011, 03:24 AM)

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

RdN · (02-09-2011, 03:26 AM)

If not fake, that's very COOL!

Rorschach · (02-09-2011, 03:27 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

Case closed.

Valkyr Junkie · (02-09-2011, 03:28 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

[IMG]http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs020.snc1/2642_547613930379_24800851_33329724_643409_n.jpg[IMG]
He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

That's cool that you remember them by having a pic of one of them as your avatar.

DrForester · 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

[IMG]http://i51.************/10o476c.jpg[/IMG]

Shawsie64 · (02-09-2011, 03:39 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

Woah we have an exclusive here! haha Gaf prevails again

SnakeswithLasers · (02-09-2011, 03:45 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

I love gaf sometimes. This is one of those times.

The_Reckoning · (02-09-2011, 03:49 AM)

Originally Posted by Valkyr Junkie:

That's cool that you remember them by having a pic of one of them as your avatar.

haha, first thing I thought!

vehn · (02-09-2011, 03:50 AM)

Alert the internets!

xbhaskarx · (02-09-2011, 03:50 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

Why would you sell out your own friend?

Suikoguy · (02-09-2011, 03:51 AM)

Most likely a school/college project that went viral.

Van Owen · (02-09-2011, 04:10 AM)

The shaving gel was Head Blade brand too. Do the math!

-COOLIO- · (02-09-2011, 04:12 AM)

the gaf exclusive is cool

Beardz · (02-09-2011, 04:17 AM)

This thread is going to be visited by trillions for all over the world :D

*waves*

soultron · (02-09-2011, 04:49 AM)

This is how NeoGAF rolls, lurkers. Now you wish you could join even more than before.

apocalidiot · (02-09-2011, 04:56 AM)

Man, what a dick

Zozz · (02-09-2011, 04:59 AM)

Originally Posted by Valkyr Junkie:

That's cool that you remember them by having a pic of one of them as your avatar.

Exactly what I was thinking

SouthernDragon · (02-09-2011, 05:01 AM)

GAF knows everyone, seriously.

vitaminwateryum · (02-09-2011, 05:06 AM)

Hah, that's bananas...

Beelzeboss · (02-09-2011, 05:06 AM)

this thread took a strange turn...

GavinGT · (02-09-2011, 05:14 AM)

Remember when that guy in the OT confessed to being the boyfriend in those "Hannah hotel sex" videos that everyone in the world has jerked off to? This is almost that weird.

Shawsie64 · (02-09-2011, 05:18 AM)

Originally Posted by GavinGT:

Remember when that guy in the OT confessed to being the boyfriend in those "Hannah hotel sex" videos that everyone in the world has jerked off to? This is almost that weird.

Haha yeah whispy scoundrel.. that one was weird! Gaf>Internet

AVclub · (02-09-2011, 05:19 AM)

LOL! Should have at least let Autotune the News make a song with them before letting the cat out of the bag. Oh well...case closed indeed.

GavinGT · (02-09-2011, 05:24 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

What were their majors? Marketing?

BobDylan · (02-09-2011, 05:25 AM)

Originally Posted by Bboy AJ:

LOL

I went to undergrad with Ken. Imagine my surprise seeing him (them) there.

He has an identical twin who was also at our undergrad. This is how I know it's fake.

thefit · (02-09-2011, 05:28 AM)

Fukin gaf, I swear.

Duki · (02-09-2011, 05:29 AM)

snitches is bitches n should be lyin in ditches

mhm

geeko420 · (02-09-2011, 05:30 AM)

He means automatic scalping device.

edit: Twins... WHAT A TWIST!

gdt · (02-09-2011, 05:37 AM)

GAF don't fucking play.

arab · (02-09-2011, 05:39 AM)

Originally Posted by GavinGT:

Remember when that guy in the OT confessed to being the boyfriend in those "Hannah hotel sex" videos that everyone in the world has jerked off to? This is almost that weird.

No way. I could never beat off to this