It turns out the Laser Razor was too good to be true

Kickstarter has dropped the Laser Razor from its website and refunded campaign backers

A FUTURISTIC shaving gadget – dubbed the Laser Razor – has been removed from crowd-funding website Kickstarter.

 

The Laser Razor has been given the chop.

The shaving gadget, which claimed it would use a small laser beam to slice through your hairs, had enormous success and reached over $4 million in funding.

Thanks to the futuristic technology, the Laser Razor could be used without soap or water and promised never to go blunt. Or so the manufacturers claimed.

Kickstarter has since removed the product from its website after it was revealed the creators did not have a working prototype.

 

The Laser Razor does not need to be sharpened. It also shaves without soap and water

US crowd-funding website Kickstarter sent the following email to Laser Razor campaign backers, following the suspension:

"This is a message from Kickstarter’s Integrity team.

"We’re writing to notify you that the Skarp Laser Razor project has been suspended, and your pledge has been canceled.

"After requesting and reviewing additional material from the creator of the project, we’ve concluded that it is in violation of our rule requiring working prototypes of physical products that are offered as rewards.

 

"Accordingly, all funding has been stopped and backers will not be charged for their pledges. No further action is required on your part. Suspensions cannot be undone.

"We take the integrity of the Kickstarter system very seriously.

"We only suspend projects when we find evidence that our rules are being violated."

Laser Razor maker Skarp this week posted a video of a working razor prototype in response to the ban.

 

The demo video shows a model using a prototype to shave the hair on a knee.

"We’ve been incredibly clear from the start that our prototype is exactly that," the firm said in a statement to technology blog Mashable.

"To produce the shaving results we discuss in our presentation, we require a high performance precision manufactured fiber. 

"We have taken our prototype as far as we can before mass production and that is why we are on Indiegogo."

Within the first ten hours of the Indiegogo campaign, the California-based firm has already raised over $100,000.