Skarp Technologies is trying to entirely change the way shaving has been traditionally done as it is planning to make a razor, which will have a laser instead of blade. It is also planning to make the laser razor available to everyone.

The project was launched on September 21, and two days after its launch it reached its goal of $160,000, and shows no signs of stopping.

Skarp makes a good case for why we need to dispose of our old shaving ways. The EPA has estimated that in US itself 2 billion razors are through every years. And these razors cannot be recycled because of health risks associated with it, so they end up in garbage dumps continuing to take up space with other waste.

Keeping this in mind Morgan Gustavsson and Paul Binun founded Skarp to create a razor that doesn't cause irritation, shaves smoothly and can help reduce waste.

According to the Kickstarter page, Gustavsson has been working in the medical and cosmetic laser industry for three decades. He invented Intense Pulsed Light, still the preferred method of hair removal and dermatology treatments today, in 1989.

He said he got the idea of laser razor in 2001, but at that time he had no technology. Wavelengths of light had been discovered that cut through dark hair but not light or gray hair.

Later in 2009 he found a wavelength that could cut any color hair. Four years later, Binun joined him and helped develop a working solution.

Skarp can cut through hair because of a molecule called chromophore, the only continuous structure in hair that is shared by every human regardless of age, gender or race.