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Who Knew? NASA Uses Flowbee Technology!

By Rain Noe - May 28, 2013

in Object Culture

If you think shaving on Earth is a pain, try shaving in space. With no running water, your shorn whiskers will scatter and float around the cabin—which is bad news for the sensitive electronic devices inside. It's also kind of disgusting as you can accidentally breathe the hairs in. Here astronaut Chris Hadfield shows you how it's done:

Maybe we can talk Braun into producing an electric razor for astronauts. It would be cool if it folded up for storage, so they could call it the Space Saver Space Shaver.

While that's admittedly an unlikely product, one does already exist that is well-suited to cutting the hairs on your head whilst in outer space. Hadfield doesn't mention it by name, but none of us are fooled—we all know that's a Flowbee. A Space Flowbee:

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It sucks as it cuts!
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on the moon they use it too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ewj-BOBuc
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