(04-01-2017, 03:40 AM)BPman Wrote: Because way too few people have any really great & functional ideas. Consider that millions of people watch sci-fi movies whereas we glide around universes with aplomb, but few know that in reality we are stuck using the same technology today of the 1920's, i.e., the rocket engine. We may never get off this rock for long or far.
Really great and functional ideas are not that hard to find. They simply take time. And when the resultant idea doesn't match your idea of what should be done, hostility comes up fast.
When I started discussing my razor design projects last year on TSR, I had instant friends all over that site. Until they learned that it would take time. For some reason it was ok for an established company to demand 80,000 and 3 years in a kickstarter project. But for a private person with a job and a life and family, it was totally unacceptable I could not give them a fully functional prototype in 4 months.
I even did a design discussion thread to guage users interest in the project itself. IT was fun, as one of my questions asked if their participation in the whole discussion was because they actually wanted to see a new razor come to market, that was made for shavers by an actual shaver with input from shavers. 28% of the votes for that question came in yes. The rest were solid NO.
Thus I realized that unless innovation makes "sense" to the viewer, its worthless and dead on arrival. Now I knew people who felt that gold plating the handle on a 30 dollar Edwin jager razor, was innovation. But a 10-15$ adjustable razor was merely something to discuss in a manner that would lead to nothing.
And yes I did indeed design my 10 dollar adjustable razor. Two design variations. One for traditional 2 piece razors, and one for 3 piece razors.
A few spots need some revision but that's the fun part. It only took me about 14 months start to finish. I also have my family of razors intended for people with physical disability.
