The thing that is weird about this case is that one of the principals, Morgan Gustavsson, is actually the dude who invented the real laser hair removal that is used in clinics and has been involved in dermatology since.<p>I don&#x27;t know if he was actually involved in this project or not, but that was the one thing that made me think that this maybe wasn&#x27;t 100% a scam?<p>Anyway, the implication they make in their pitch isn&#x27;t that it&#x27;s an open laser, but that it is a laser confined to a fiberoptic wire which leaks into the hair when pressed against it. Gustavsson has published some papers on this a few years ago in which he refers to the concept as a TRASER.<p>Of course, if this really is such a revolutionary advance, why go to Kickstarter to bring it to market? Why not traditional investors. Gotta be easier to get funding for a significant manufacturing outlay, right? Just to not have to sell a piece of the company? To justify that there is a market?<p>I personally don&#x27;t have the background to make any judgments about this and I definitely don&#x27;t understand the article he published, but I just thought it didn&#x27;t <i>completely</i> fail the smell test.