Razor Maker | GIZMODO.cz

On that fateful day, as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin boarded the Saturn V that was departing for man’s lunar mission, they did so with shaving kits containing Gillette’s razors. The company now celebrates 50 years since that glorious achievement, and its long-standing association with NASA, to launch the Apollo handle under its popular Razor Maker program that lets you choose custom 3D printed grips for your trusty Gillette blade.

For space and science aficionados, you can now attach a lunar-themed Apollo handle to the base of your Gillette Mach 3 or Fusion5 ProGlide blade. The razor features an exclusive moonscape handle design adorned with a historically inspired “one small step” boot imprint on the front and NASA’s logo on the back. Each handle is SLA 3D printed in Gillette’s Boston headquarters, and comes made to order in a beautiful metallic gray finish that beautifully brings out the colors and the textures of the moon’s crater-filled surface!

Designer: Gillette

You could say that Gillette’s practically perfected the shaving experience, with its state-of-the-art blades, housings, mechanisms, and lubrications, a Gillette razor is a sheer feat of engineering, designed to provide a near-perfect grooming experience. Gillette now wants to conquer the next frontier… personalizing this grooming experience.

Partnering with Formlabs, Gillette introduces the Razor Maker, a tool to personalize your razor with a bespoke handle that’s chosen by you, and specially SLA 3D-Printed for you. You can choose from as many as 48 different form-based designs, even decorating them with images for a razor that’s unique to you. The handle designs come compatible with Gillette’s MACH3 or Fusion5 ProGlide razors, and the final product, once designed by you, ships to your doorstep! I call dibbs on the water-swirl one, although I know it probably isn’t going to be particularly ergonomic to grip.

Designers: Gillette & Formlabs.

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