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This $100 beard trimmer projects lasers onto your face

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Alas, there’s never been a simple way to shave complex geometric patterns into your beard without using a chalk-line tool, a protractor, and a wind sock. But modern science has changed that, because now we have the Philips Norelco Beardtrimmer Series 9000.

As you may have astutely gathered from the photo above, this is the first beard trimmer with a laser guide built into it. The above photo is also a bit misleading, as the laser guide does not project intricate multi-line patterns onto your face. (For that, you’ll need to head to your local planetarium after 9 p.m. in 1987.) Instead, it projects one line at a time, essentially letting you trace them into your face mane.
via Wired 

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