Fusion Power Here At Last!

More than 60 years after the first public demonstration of fission power comes Fusion Power, and you can hold it in your hand!

Well, to be completely truthful, what I'm holding in my hand is the un-powered version of Fusion, but it comes with a $1 coupon for the powered one.

Aside #mc²: I wonder if physicists use Fusion.

I am, of course, talking about the Fusion razor by Gilette. They sent me one in the mail along with a selection of coupons for blades, the battery powered version, and shaving creme.

The battery powered one vibrates, which supposedly "enhances" the shaving experience. One can't help but wonder where they're shaving! Do they have a version for women, perhaps with a bigger handle?

Anyway, the Fusion razor is the latest salvo in the shaving arms race. It has no less than six (yes, 6) blades. Five of these blades are lined up to give you an extremely close shave while the 6^th is positioned on the top edge to help you get those "tricky areas". Again one must ask just where they're shaving!

After thinking about it, I'm sort of surprised that Norelco hasn't touted the number of blades in their electric shavers. Each of those round thingees must have 20 or more blades and there are at least two of them (and often three) in each razor. Remington, which uses a different technology, probably has thirty or so blades in their products.

Then again, the knock on 'lectric shavers is that they don't shave as close as a "blade", in spite of their vastly superior number of cutting surfaces. Is there a number of surfaces beyond which the efficacy is reduced?

Note to self: Write up research grant application to investigate limits of increasing number of blades in razor. Should be worth a few million of taxpayer money.