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# Travel Goes High-Tech with the USB Razor

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## Video: Travel Goes High-Tech with the USB Razor

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_Published 2012-06-29. ShaveTech's $40 electric razor charges via a flip-out USB connector, a perfect counterattack to the ever-present danger posed by cable clutter._


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## Transcript

[ SOUND ] This a story about the ShaveTech USB powered electric razor, but it's also, it's also a story about cable clutter. A cautionary tale about cable clutter. It's a well known phenomenon, that if you put two cables on opposite sides of a room and leave the room, when you return, those two cables will be entangled. That's how, how cable clutter works. Every geek grapples with cable clutter. That's there's so many cables and cords in a geek's life, and for some, like me, it can be terrifying. Especially if you have a bad experience. I had a bad experience My wife was out of town. I was reaching for a cable out of a giant basket of cables, and the entire basket fell on me and buried me alive in my own office.

I had to survive by eating Chapstick all weekend until my wife got home. [ INAUDIBLE ] flavored. [ MUSIC ] Now it's hard for me to even, sorry. It's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's, sorry. It's har, it's hard for me to even pack a laptop charger to go down the street to the copy shop even. So, naturally, I prefer devices that don't have their own charge, like a razor with a USB charging port built right in from Shave Deck. So, we' can take a look at that today. Sorry It's small, it's shorter than an iPhone. It's about as wide, maybe twice as thick. Charges via USB port. Any USB port in around for four hours, which is good for about a 1 / 2 hour shaving.

If you're a geek like me, try using your webcam. I think you'll be pleasantly, you'll be underwhelmed. The resolution's really not that good to shave by yet. [ NOISE ] Things I like about the Shavetex, actually quite powerful for a little razor. It made short work of my weird patchy geek beard. And the USB charging of course is awesome. Especially if you had a bad experience like I have. Chap stick. As far as the con's, there's no trimmer for side burns or cool mustaches not that I could [ MUSIC ] To grow one, and the USB connector doesn't really stay put all that well. Other than that, is this the ultimate travel razor for a geek that is deathly afraid of cables?

Yeah, so far, so good. [ MUSIC ]

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