Panasonic: Screw Everything, We’re Doing Six Blades

Getting a detailed shave with an electrical razor isn’t inconceivable, however it requires some fierce engineering to match the effectiveness of a razor-sharp metallic blade and a lathered-up face. With the brand new Arc6, Panasonic has defied the laws of our universe, and possibly many others, with a reducing head filled with six shifting blades in whole, promising cleaner leads to a single move.

Imagine tackling an overgrown garden by strapping pruning shears, a trimmer, scissors, a sickle, and a lawnmower to a driving mower, and also you get the final thought of what it’s like to pull the Panasonic Arc6 throughout your face.

The shaver’s head options two titanium-coated blades for thick stubble that work alongside two lifting blades, and two ending blades, to slice and cube all different forms of facial hair, together with the troublesome whiskers that arrange store on the jawline and on the neck. According to Panasonic, all six of the blades are constituted of “Panasonic’s advanced Japanese blade technology that is renowned for its strength, sharpness and durability.” The blades are additionally “forged from the same highest-grade stainless steel used for Japanese sword making…” If you’ve ever fantasized about shaving with a Samurai sword, this may be as shut as you may get to realizing that dream. (Please by no means attempt shaving with a sword, it doesn’t matter what its historic significance could also be.)

To scale back the variety of occasions the shaver must be dragged throughout a consumer’s face to trim each final hair, the Arc6 additionally features a floating trimmer head that, together with the six blades that may pivot up and down, supplies 22 completely different instructions of motion in order that the reducing surfaces keep as near the floor of the pores and skin as doable. This added flexibility additionally ensures the shaver is efficient for a wider vary of faces, and Panasonic claims the brand new Arc6 additionally cuts a bigger swath than its predecessor, the Arc5, whose 5 blades appear so primitive now.

Every second the Arc6’s electrical motor delivers 1,400 cross-cutting actions and to maximise battery life a built-in beard sensor measures the thickness and density of the stubble 220 occasions per second and robotically adjusts the motor’s energy 14 occasions each second in order that it’s solely operating at full energy when wanted. As shavers go, it seems like one thing born from Tony Stark’s personal R&D laboratory, which additionally helps clarify the Arc6’s $400 price ticket—or $500 should you purchase it with a cleansing and charging station—when it turns into out there within the U.S. beginning in April.