The $100,000 Razor

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By Charlie Sorrel June 21, 2011 | 8:47 am | Categories: Household



I’m having a hard time working out just who would buy this $100,000 Zafirro Iridium razor. It would have to be someone very rich, and very, very hairy. I’m thinking Robin Williams, but he’s way too smart to drop the price of a cheap apartment on a bathroom accessory.

What could possibly justify this price? Well, nothing, but that doesn’t stop Zafirro from trying. The two blades are made from white sapphire and “launch a new era of shaving” (the era of shaving whilst broke, I guess). These blades are sharpened using “high-energy, ionized particles”. Included in the price is ten years worth of cleaning, servicing and sharpening.

Then we get on to some more convincing reasons for the jacked-up price. Zafirro uses some very expensive metals for the construction. The handle, for instance, is made from iridium, a metal “from meteorites” which is “10 times more rare than platinum.”

If you thought that buying objects made from ivory or woolly mammoth tusks was non-PC, then you’ll be happy with Zafirro’s environmental policy: “Due to the limited global supply of iridium and the expense associated with manufacturing, only 99 of the Iridium line will be made.” Why make any at all?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/100000-razor-has-just-two-blades/

[Lint Head]

1. Why make any at all? Because elitist dildos want to be perceived

as better than everyone else.

[Capitalocracy]

2. I don't need that to shave whilst broke.

And my handle? It's made outta plastic. Seems to work OK. Maybe these guys should look into it, since iridium's so rare and all.

[FLPanhandle]

3. I'd pay $100K for that

As long as it came with it's own bathroom to shave in. Oh, and a house to go with the bathroom.

Yep, toss in the bathroom & house and I'll pay $100K for it.

[rustydog]

4. People, when John Boehner and other GOPhers say:

"The American People"....
It is the people who could buy these as a cute fathers-day gift and think nothing of it.

This is a part of America we will never see, yet they control the, Congress and the Supreme Court.

[snooper2]

5. That thing would lose it's value faster than a Chrysler

:rofl: