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Shaving Helmet

Peter

Posted: 09 February 2011 04:48 AM

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Story here. Make of it what you will.

THE interwebs are abuzz - this time, literally - with excitement after a video surfaced yesterday of a man who claims to have developed a “shaving helmet”.

The aptly titled “Shaving Helmet” featured on YouTube has been picked up by hundreds of tech and media sites such as Huffington Post, Wired and Gizmodo.

The device does exactly what it says - put it on and it automatically (or as one site put it,

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daveprime

Posted: 09 February 2011 05:48 AM

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I love the way they just “happen” to move the camera off the test subject whilst the “shave” is going on…

Totally real!! OMG!!

Cool idea, bad fakery.

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Peter

Posted: 19 February 2011 09:27 PM

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How they did it. Story here.

WE thought something was fishy about the shaving helmet, and it turns out our suspicions were not unfounded.

It may be unsurprising to most that the video which featured a protype of the shaving helmet was a hoax.

I was right. It is part of a viral marketing campaign.

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